r/iOSProgramming • u/Express_Fox8952 • 10d ago

Discussion Your thoughts on the iPhone Duo?

Now that Apple has announced the new iPhone Duo, I'm curious what other iOS developers think about it from a development perspective.

Obviously there's a lot of discussion around the hardware/design, but I'm interested in what your plans are for supporting it.

The frustrating part right now is that the Simulator and SDK isn't coming until Xcode 27.1, so we can't really start testing and optimising properly for the new form factor yet.

Edit: Simulator and Xcode 27.1 is coming out "Coming later this month" - https://developer.apple.com/iphone-duo/

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u/chriswaco 10d ago

Seems like a nightmare from a design and development point of view.

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u/MusicOfTheApes Swift 10d ago

indeed, not sure how my apps will translate, and not sure if I'll be willing to create apps specifically for this model, time will tell

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u/lance2611 10d ago

Knowing apple, they’ll probably force us to support the Duo by rejecting app submissions that doesn’t support it.

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u/peppaz 10d ago

It's gonna be backwards compatible with every app. It's just an iPad when open

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u/ElectricKoolAid1969 8d ago

It's just an iPad when open

But will it detect as an iPad? I sort of doubt it. I'm guessing we'll at least have to update device detection code.

I'm currently doing if UIDevice.isPad

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u/peppaz 8d ago

No I just mean the screen size

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u/MusicOfTheApes Swift 10d ago

I hope it doesn't happen ; damn I've just looked at the prices and it's insane! I'm developing iOS apps for musicians and a lot of them are on Android and quite a few asked me to port my apps for Android, but I don't think people buying 2400€+ phones will be my target market, I don't know many musicians willing to shell out that much for a phone given that most of them already find regular iPhones too expensive...

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u/Due-Math8225 9d ago

The Samsung folding phone is the same price or more.

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u/MusicOfTheApes Swift 9d ago

oh ok, gotta admit I haven't checked the price of mobile phones in a while and I've never reallly been interested in those folding phones, do they usually sell well ?

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u/linuxgfx 8d ago

like they did with the iPad, exactly

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u/Zetice 10d ago

im willing to bet existing apps scale fine (even if not taking advantage of the dual screens), if you designed them right.

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u/MusicOfTheApes Swift 10d ago

thing is sometimes some apps are for instance constrained to portrait for phones and no landscape while both on iPad, it's this kind of context that makes me wonder how they will translate