John Gruber (Mastodon, tweet, Bluesky):
The Duo name is perfect. It truly is like having two devices in one. The outer device is, by far, the worst iPhone Apple has ever made. It’s a miserable fat little thing. The inner device is a splendid, joyful, beautiful tablet, with a UI that out-iPads the iPad. For me, by far, it’s my favorite tablet experience ever. I prefer it to any iPad or Kindle-like reader I’ve ever used.
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It does not go into or out of my jeans pocket smoothly. Sometimes, in my pocket, it rotates 90 degrees, which is uncomfortable. Folded up it never stops feeling heavy.
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No, the problem with holding the Duo in your left hand alone is that the bottom left corner of its D-shaped frame digs into your palm. When you hold it in your right hand, it’s a nice round corner in the meat of your thumb’s base. In your left, it’s a crisp sharp corner, and it doesn’t feel good.
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I’d love a display that looks and feels like this on my non-foldable iPhone 18 Pro. No glare, even in sunlight. It’s amazing.
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Held horizontally, the iPhone Duo supports side-by-side multitasking with two apps. The user interface for this feature is brilliant. It puts every idea Apple has tried on iPadOS for multitasking to shame.
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Every time you pick up the Duo to use it you face The Decision. Open it? Or be lazy and suffer with the outside display? Every time.
This is such a good review; you should just read the whole thing. Marques Brownlee has a great video review. Like Gruber, he really misses FaceID. They seem to disagree about the camera and screen aspect ratios. I also really liked Joanna Stern’s video review. She and Gruber both say it’s too hard to open the Duo with one hand.
MacRumors and MacStories have review roundups.
Austin Mann:
A week with the iPhone Duo at home, camping and in Iceland. A capable camera with new tricks, and a creative powerhouse for planning, editing and sharing.
Previously:
Face ID iOS iOS 27 iOS Multitasking iPhone Duo Touch ID
Mike Piontek (Mastodon):
A year ago I wrote that Safari 26 and Liquid Glass have little respect for web sites and unfortunately this hasn’t changed.
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It’s unclear to me why Apple is not opting to treat the iPhone Duo toolbar as a safe area. I have not come across anything discussing their reasons nor educating web developers on the best way to design for this device.
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Apple has decided to examine my web page and pick out a color to use for their toolbar. The process they use to determine this color is complex and not documented.
Previously:
iOS iOS 27 iPhone Duo MobileSafari Web
Lara O’Reilly:
Apple’s latest privacy crackdown left the online ad industry scrambling for answers. Now, the tech giant has finally offered some.
John Wilander et al.:
A “post-cookie” tracking method emerged, called identity resolution. In this scheme, third parties (i.e., not the website owner) invisibly collect your email address when you log in or sign up for a newsletter. They send the email address to their servers, create an opaque tracking ID permanently linked to your email address, and send that tracking ID back to the webpage. The tracking ID is stored on the website and can from thereon be used for arbitrary purposes linked to your email address, such as building a profile of your browsing or targeting ads at you across websites. Logging out or unsubscribing from that newsletter does not remove the tracking ID or your email address stored with the third party.
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Some companies serve as third-party infrastructure to facilitate identity resolution. They are present but invisible on many webpages where you enter your email address or use your email address for login purposes. They are not themselves login providers or newsletter services, they’re just there to track you.
In our iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 27 releases, Safari and WebKit block network access to identity resolution infrastructure to prevent cross-site tracking. This stops them from sending your email address to their servers and all the downstream effects of that. The blocking is done on the domain level, meaning they can’t just change the structure of the network request to work around the protection.
Rowena Lam:
- There is an unreleased update to WebKit that makes this list dynamic, meaning Apple can remotely add new vendor domains to the blocklist at any time without requiring users to download a new OS version.
- The list is not public facing, domains added to the blocklist don’t appear to be notified of their addition and there does not appear to be any formal appeal process.
Previously:
Advertising iOS iOS 27 Mac macOS 27 Golden Gate Privacy Safari Web WebKit
