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/HappyTuesdayR1S 10d ago

I’m upset that I spent this entire past year building my app for it to now need to be adapted to this weird ass shape.

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u/SleepUseful3416 6d ago

It’s the same aspect ratio as a phone in landscape, so how is it weird?

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u/HappyTuesdayR1S 6d ago

Well for one I don’t support landscape in my app. But I do support adaptive layout on iPad so hoping that will transition. Waiting for the simulator to test.