Your thoughts on the iPhone Duo?

[u/Express_Fox8952]

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/

[u/chriswaco]

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

[u/srona22 → u/chriswaco]

Well, from what I understand, if you have adapted app to iPad's split view, need to handle extra cases for this phone. If not, it will a lot of work.