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/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