Recreation Heart: Find out how to set your account on iPhone

Apple’s Recreation Heart service permits you to compete with mates and unlock achievements within the video games you play. You possibly can see the place you rank amongst your pals — and globally. Achievements provides you with an inventory of missions to perform to show your mastery of the sport. You possibly can even play reside multiplayer video games on all of your separate units utilizing SharePlay.

Up till iOS 10, Recreation Heart existed as a separate app on iPhone and iPad, which made this all simpler to handle. And rumor has it that Apple will exchange Recreation Heart with the subsequent main model of iOS, to be introduced subsequent week at WWDC25.

How do you handle your Recreation Heart account now, on iOS 18? What choices do you could have? How do you add mates?

Find out how to arrange and edit your Recreation Heart username and profile

To arrange Recreation Heart in your iPhone, go to Settings, then scroll down (fairly far) to faucet on Recreation Heart. You’ll must check in along with your Apple ID if you happen to haven’t already.

Faucet in your identify on the prime to see your profile.

Faucet Nickname to set a username. It needs to be distinctive, however you’ll be able to change it anytime.

Profile Privateness units how public your profile is. This contains lately performed video games and your achievements. Though your whole pal checklist isn’t public, a few of them is likely to be proven. For instance, an achievement that claims, “You beat [a friend’s] rating” in a sport you each play may present up in your exercise with a hyperlink to your pal’s profile.

For those who don’t need your pals to be public info, it’s finest to play it protected and set Profile Privateness to Mates Solely. For those who don’t need anybody to know what video games you play, set it to Solely You.

Permit Discovering by Mates will let your contacts discover your profile and ship you an invite to attach if they’ve your matching cellphone quantity or electronic mail tackle in your Apple ID.

Requests from Contacts Solely will disguise pal requests from individuals who aren’t in your contacts. With each of those enabled, you’ll be able to solely obtain an invite if each of you could have the right contact data for one another. That is actually helpful if you happen to’re writing an article about Recreation Heart that’ll be learn by hundreds of individuals for years to return and also you don’t need to be spammed by requests from strangers.

Close by Gamers means that you can play native multiplayer video games with your pals. Join with Mates permits video games to make use of your pals checklist.

Add mates

So as to add a pal, go to Settings > Recreation Heart (you’ll should scroll down fairly far) and faucet Invite Mates.

Sort in a reputation out of your contacts, or a cellphone quantity or electronic mail tackle. You must enter in the identical quantity or electronic mail the individual makes use of for his or her Apple ID. For most individuals, that’s their solely cellphone quantity, and an electronic mail tackle ending in @icloud.com or @gmail.com.

We initially revealed this text about Recreation Heart on Might 31, 2023. We up to date it on June 3, 2025.