iThinkDifferent – Apple News and Guides

Foldfish Turns the iPhone Duo Hinge into a Fishing Rod

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:50:04 +0000

Foldfish is a free fishing game that you play by folding the iPhone Duo. You unfold the hinge to load your cast, tap to throw the line, and hold to reel in your catch while you dodge the other fish....

Lake Coloring Adds iPhone Duo Support and New Glitter Brushes

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:26:46 +0000

Lake, the Apple Design Award winning coloring book app, now supports the iPhone Duo, with a bigger canvas when you unfold the phone. Version 5.0.0 also adds more than 10 new brushes, including four glitter tools, and almost 20 new...

Fold Accordion Uses the iPhone Duo Hinge as the Bellows

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:04:01 +0000

Fold Accordion is a $2.99 app that uses the iPhone Duo hinge as the bellows of an accordion. You press the on-screen keys to pick the notes and open and close the phone to push air, the way you would...

Portal Opens a Window to Nature When You Unfold the iPhone Duo

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:33:41 +0000

Portal, the nature scenes app with more than 100 places to escape to, now supports the iPhone Duo, so unfolding the phone opens what the developers call a window to nature. Version 4.1.0 redesigns the Focus and Pomodoro timers, the...

Living Earth Spreads Its Live Globe Across the iPhone Duo

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:10:08 +0000

Living Earth is a $5.99 clock and weather app built around a 3D globe with live clouds and storms, and version 4.50.1 now spreads that globe across the iPhone Duo inner display when you unfold the phone. The app comes...

Orisuji Is a Paper Maze You Solve by Folding the iPhone Duo

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:31:55 +0000

Orisuji is a $4.99 paper maze game where you solve each puzzle by folding the iPhone Duo. When you fold the phone, the left page lands on the maze, and when you unfold it, the page lifts away. The game...

Nitelore Is a Free Anti-Gravity Racer for iPhone and Apple Watch

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:02:09 +0000

Nitelore is a free anti-gravity racing game for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Watch, with Grand Prix seasons, online multiplayer and rival pilots who fight back. You race at extreme speeds across cities, volcanoes, alien worlds and deep space....

Fold Focus Builds a City While You Keep the iPhone Duo Closed

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:40:38 +0000

Fold Focus is a Pomodoro timer that raises a building in your virtual city for every focus session you spend with the iPhone Duo closed, and opening the phone early knocks the building down. The app comes from ArveLabs Ltd...

Duometry Is an Angle Guessing Game for the iPhone Duo Hinge

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:00:33 +0000

Duometry is a $2.99 game that gives you a target angle and asks you to match it by folding the iPhone Duo. You make your best guess, lock it in, and find out how close you came. The app comes...

12 iPhone Duo Settings to Change Right After Setup

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:58:08 +0000

iPhone Duo has no Face ID, no Ring/Silent switch and no Action button, so a few settings matter more here than on any other iPhone. The foldable’s two displays add several more that do not exist on a regular iPhone....

Foldissimo Turns the iPhone Duo into a Pocket Accordion

Usman Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:25:56 +0000

Foldissimo is a free pocket accordion app that reads how fast you fold the iPhone Duo and turns that speed into airflow. The quicker you open and close the phone, the more air the app simulates, which shapes the sound...

3 Tips to Make iPhone Duo Unlock Faster

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:16:31 +0000

iPhone Duo has no Face ID, so unlocking by fingerprint happens at the side button, where Touch ID works the same way whether the phone is folded shut or open. Apple dropped Face ID for the foldable, and the trade-off...

Seven Apple Stores in France Close Saturday over Protests

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:30:20 +0000

Apple is keeping seven Apple Stores in France closed all day Saturday, October 24, as another day of protests is planned across the country. Only the street-facing locations are shut. Stores inside shopping centers are operating normally. French site MacGeneration...

Fold & Squish Turns the iPhone Duo into a Folded Paper Painting

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:15:51 +0000

Fold & Squish is a free painting app that turns closing the iPhone Duo into the folded paper painting you may remember from school. You paint on one half of the page, close the phone, rub the outside screen to...

Deck-Man Turns the iPhone Duo into a Cassette Player

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:06:27 +0000

Deck-Man is a $4.99 music player that turns the iPhone Duo into a portable cassette player. You open the phone to pick an album, slide the tape into the deck, and close the phone to start playback. The app comes...

Best iPhone Duo Wallpapers for the Outer and Inner Displays

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:03:26 +0000

The iPhone Duo has two screens with different shapes, so a wallpaper cut for a regular iPhone gets cropped on both. The outer display is a tall 1398 x 2034 portrait, and the inner display opens up to a 2670...

iPhone Duo Durability Test Ends With a Dead Inner Screen

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:53:11 +0000

The iPhone Duo has failed its first public durability test. Dust jammed the hinge so the phone would not close, and a single bend left the inner screen unresponsive. The outer display held up far better. JerryRigEverything ran the tests...

iPhone Duo Is a Great Little iPad Until It Isn’t

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:46:17 +0000

The iPhone Duo vs iPad mini question comes up the moment you unfold Apple’s first foldable iPhone. The 7.6-inch inner display looks close enough to a tablet that plenty of people will try to use it as one. For watching...

How to Open Two Apps in Split View on iPhone Duo

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:39:07 +0000

Split View on iPhone Duo lets you run two apps, or two windows of the same app, side by side. Unfold the phone and turn it sideways, and both apps share the 7.6-inch inner display equally. The split is fixed,...

Apple Explores Safari Fix for iPhone Duo’s Outer Display

Imran Hussain — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:27:15 +0000

Apple is looking for a way to let websites use the full width of the iPhone Duo’s outer display. Today, Safari on the outer screen reserves a column on the right edge for controls, and web content stops at that...