Apps will be iPhone Duo's Achilles heel for now, no matter what Apple claims

Apple is rolling out a new badge in the App Store to indicate whether an app is optimized for its new foldable. The new "Made for iPhone Duo" badge will appear across apps and games that work with the device's extra screen real estate. Though Apple doesn't include an image of what this badge might look like, it highlighted some of the ways apps are taking advantage of the Duo's inner and outer screens. Netflix, for example, will display shows and movies that take up the whole inner display, whil

6 sources22 Oct 2026Updated 2h ago

Apps will be iPhone Duo's Achilles heel for now, no matter what Apple claims

Coverage across the spectrum

How we rate outlets

Left 0% · 0Center 100% · 6Right 0% · 0

The story so far

Can Retail Apps Still Close Sales on iPhone Duo?
Developers bring incredible new app experiences to iPhone Duo.

Summarised from the linked sources. Methodology

Who's reporting it

All 6 sources

Timeline

2h ago
IGN: Can Retail Apps Still Close Sales on iPhone Duo?
2h ago
Letem světem Applem: Developers bring incredible new app experiences to iPhone Duo
2h ago
The Verge: A new Duo badge will appear across the App Store.
2h ago
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - Mac Blog (XX): 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
1h ago
The Verge: A new Duo badge will appear across the App Store.
1h ago
AppleInsider News (XX): Apple has announced a slew of developers who have updated their apps to fit the iPhone Duo , but despite some surprises, there are still so

More in World

Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN

Multiple outlets • 3h ago

YEREVAN, Armenia — Nearly all of the world’s shallow-water coral reefs face an “extremely high risk” of collapse by 2075 due to climate change, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Thursday. In the first global assessment of its kind, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96 percent of the planet’s coral reef systems as “critically endangered” — its highest risk category. Corals are heat sensitive and particularly vulnerable to human-driven climate…

L 0%C 100%R 0%

3 sources

Top-ranked Rybakina into Ningbo quarter-finals on return from injury

Multiple outlets • 3h ago

SHANGHAI–World number one Elena Rybakina reached the quarter-finals of the Ningbo Open on Thursday on her return from injury when opponent Polina Kudermetova retired. The top seed and defending champion was cruising 5-0 in eastern China when the world number 105 from Uzbekistan called it quits because of injury. Moscow-born Kazakh Rybakina will face Poland’s unseeded Katarzyna Kawa in the last eight. Rybakina, 27, won the US Open for her third Grand Slam crown in September and usurped Aryna…

L 0%C 100%R 0%

4 sources

ICC: Delivering justice for the world's worst crimes

Multiple outlets • 3h ago

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Sakharov Prize for the International Criminal Court comes as the institution endures the toughest period in its history, reeling from a damaging sex scandal, hemorrhaging members, and bracing for potentially crippling US sanctions. The ICC, housed in a shiny glass building on the outskirts of The Hague, was set up in 2002 to try people accused of the world’s worst crimes — war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Its founding treaty, the Rome Statute,…

L 0%C 100%R 0%

3 sources

Almost every shallow-water coral reef on the planet faces ecosystem collapse by 2075, UN advisors say

Multiple outlets • 3h ago

Assessment finds global heating is endangering 96% of coral reefs across 80 countries – a figure scientists say should serve as a ‘wake-up call’ Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Almost every shallow-water coral reef on the planet, including Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, faces a high risk of ecosystem collapse before 2075 because of global heating, according to an assessment by United Nations nature advisers. About 24% of the planet’s…

L 50%C 50%R 0%

4 sources