This is the first major live professional sporting event to be filmed solely on iPhone.
After this weekend, Major League Soccer will take a seven-week break as the FIFA World Cup takes center stage across North America. However, ahead of the break, Apple is taking a different approach to producing a game between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Houston Dynamo. The company says the May 23 game, which kicks off at 10:30 p.m. ET, will be the first major live professional sporting event to be broadcast solely using iPhones to capture the action.
The production team will use 15 iPhone 17 Pro devices to capture everything from warm-ups and player introductions to crowd shots and goals from inside the net. Apple said the broadcast would feature “dynamic new perspectives that bring viewers closer to the action, made possible by the iPhone’s small form factor.”
Apple first used an iPhone in a live sports broadcast last September. He used the iPhone 17 Pro to capture aspects of a Major League Baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers. Since then, the company has used iPhones as part of its regular production rotation in Friday Night Baseball and MLS is broadcasting this year.
