The iPhone Duo started shipping about two weeks ago and app support was one of the first topics of discussion. Today, Apple says there are already more than 100,000 apps designed for the foldable live on the App Store, with thousands of optimized titles added every day.
Apple iPhone Duo
Susan Prescott, vice president of worldwide developer relations at Apple, says developers have been quick to adopt the handset. Recent examples include Microsoft Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Word, as well as Etsy, Goodnotes, Halide Mark III, NBA, NHL, Zoom, Amazon Prime Video, Fantastical, Flighty, Instagram, MLB, Netflix, SmartGym, WhatsApp, and YouTube. Optimized apps receive a Made for iPhone Duo badge on their App Store product pages on the device.
Apple has also held workshops to speed things up: more than 50 in-person sessions in 19 cities over the past month, with more than 2,000 developers attending in total, according to the company. Apps that use standard SwiftUI and UIKit components can automatically adapt to each view, and the new APIs cover custom layouts and hinge poses. Older versions still work, but they don’t always fill the internal display like fully optimized apps do.
Of course, with millions of titles on the App Store in total, many apps still aren’t optimized – Google Maps is only just catching up, for example. Apple says the pace of updates should continue to increase from here on out.
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