 <p>There is a blog post about using activity indicators here: <a href="http://www.edumobile.org/iphone/iphone-programming-tutorials/use-activityindicator-in-iphone/" rel="nofollow">http://www.edumobile.org/iphone/iphone-programming-tutorials/use-activityindicator-in-iphone/</a></p> <p>The most important pieces of code are:</p> <pre><code>[activityView startAnimating]; [activityView stopAnimating]; //To Test for a Conditional [activityView isAnimating]; </code></pre>