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Apple Reveals More Than 50 Apps That Will Be Updated for iPhone Duo

Apple today highlighted more than 50 third-party App Store apps that are or will soon be fully optimized for the iPhone Duo and its various layouts and poses.

iPhone Duo Apps feature
You can hold the iPhone Duo and set it down in a number of ways, such as partially folded like a book, placed down on a surface, or standing on its edges:

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With the Netflix app, for example, Apple said iPhone Duo users can scroll through a feed of short, vertical movie and TV show clips on the outer display to discover something new to watch, and then open the device to keep watching on the inner display. Apple's screenshot shows the Netflix app on an iPhone Duo in a "seated" pose.

Apple also showed off Amazon's Prime Video app in a "seated" position.

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The official MLB app was updated with iPhone Duo support yesterday and now shows live games, scores, stats, and more across the full width of the inner display.

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In the Zoom app, iPhone Duo users can see shared content and other participants all at once.

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Slack and Lyft also take full advantage of the iPhone Duo's larger inner display.

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In the coming weeks, Apple said Microsoft's Word and Outlook apps will roll out a "desktop-class experience" that includes Word's formatting tools appearing alongside a document and Outlook's inbox visible next to a full message.

Other apps and games that are or will soon be optimized for the iPhone Duo include Flighty, Fantastical, Things, Bear, Notewise, SmartGym, Airmail, Paramount+, PGA Tour, Instagram, Edits, Sneaky Sasquatch, Retrocade, NYT Cooking, Lowe's, DoorDash, OpenTable, Yelp, American Airlines, United Airlines, Weibo, and more.

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All existing iPhone apps can run on the iPhone Duo, but their appearances will vary based on whether they use the iOS 26, iOS 27, or iOS 27.1 SDK.

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Top Rated Comments

turbineseaplane Avatar
3 weeks ago
Apps are getting updated to support new hardware.

Isn't that sort of ... umm ... "expected"?

Score: 20 Votes (Like | Disagree)
steve62388 Avatar
3 weeks ago
I feel this press release is probably in a response to a lot of the reviews complaining about the app situation and them not being updated to support the Duo.

It seems pretty obvious to me that they’ll lag behind a bit.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DMG35 Avatar
3 weeks ago

As The Verge has said countless times, review based on what's in the box and not the promised potential. Anything else is just wishcasting.
Oh pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase. Its literally time to get them updated. Some of you guys are too much. You don't base a review on what 3rd party apps have been updated that Apple has zero control over.
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DMG35 Avatar
3 weeks ago

but the reviews were universally negative in their final recommendation for multiple reasons but this played a part too.
That is absolute BS.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
3 weeks ago
They highlighted it because all the reviewers were complaining which they should have known better! This is not their first rodeo, those reviewers should have known the apps would eventually be updated but they played dumb like omg this is such a dealbreaker. SMH.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DMG35 Avatar
3 weeks ago
Its hilarious that all of the Android fanboys are screaming "APPS AREN'T OPTIMIZED" for a device that hasn't been officially released yet.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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