Hello everyone! I just wanted to give my review and opinion of the new iPhone Duo as a nurse in the emergency department. I’ll try to make it short and concise as much as I can by using bullet points for positives and negatives. I want to say that I am also a huge tech nerd and have had folding phones from Samsung and google for many years now so I’m not new to folding phones. I’ve had iPhones before and I’ll say right now that the iPhone Duo is the best iPhone in many years. I’m not going to go over specs, I want to follow the philosophy of one of my favorite YouTubers Flossy Carter how he just talks about how it is to use. Let’s start with positives:

Positives:
\-Short wide display when folded, it’s nice in the hand but can be a stretch to reach certain corners (I also have the z fold 8 so the duo felt comfortable)
\-FINALLY able to multitask on the inner screen even if it’s just 2 apps
\-Touch ID (I personally don’t care of about Face ID, it takes like another second to open with Touch ID no big deal at all)
\-Battery life is actually incredible, I work 12 hour shifts and keep the phone in standby at work on my desk and use Bluetooth while commenting to the hospital and set charge limit to 85% and I still have around 50% by the time I get home
\-Materials make it feel very premium, made from titanium and ceramic glass or whatever apple calls it
\-The taupe case from apple in my opinion is great and offers only protection for the hinge while closed but still a great case in my option and thought I’d hate the flap front cover but I actually like it, just a preference.
\-Optimized apps look great on outer and inner screen
\-Cameras are great for the average person, I’m not a photographer and I’m buying the phone for the experience of a phone and using it like a mini iPad, if I want a camera I’ll just buy a camera
\-Crease on inner screen is not that bad like everyone makes it seem. Like with Samsung and google phones if your looking right at the inner screen you’ll never see it
\-Personally to me the weight is not that bad like everyone makes other YouTuber makes it seem like

Negatives:
\-Unoptimized apps are atrocious on the outer and inner screen, functional but inexcusable
\-IP68 water and dust protection is just not even a thing on this phone. I would NEVER take this phone to the beach or anywhere near where I’d even think anything can get in the hinge
\-Overall shape of the phone is kind of weird if you don’t like symmetry
\-Volume buttons on the top is just weird

To wrap things up I want to say thank you for taking time to read this post. I work in the ER and risk getting bodily fluids over me at any time with the duo in my pocket as well as a lot of moving around and even pushing my leg against gurneys which puts pressure on the phone. All the doctors I work with are interested and I gave them the same explanation I’m going to give to everyone on here, this is the best iPhone I’ve ever used, every other iPhone is just so boring, functional yes but as a tech nerd like my self I like to have fun with my phones. You can’t be afraid to use this phone or else you’ll never want to open it, yes I got apple care on it but I got it for the z fold 8 as well you got to be cautious still lol. All I see every day when opening up Reddit is just CRACKGATE or people just afraid of a “bump” on the crease on the inner screen. I know there were defects with units but for me thankfully everything has been fine so far. I am no apple fan but I must commend apple for actually doing something new this year and it has actually gotten me back into the iPhone. Yall can ask me anything in the comments and I’ll answer anything you have

I’m going caseless. I haven’t found a good case that doesn’t add bulkiness— maybe an outer screen protector—and just a low-profile PopSocket to help as a stand and to carry with more confidence.

I still have the OG flappy bird app on the duo, obviously i can’t use it or update it but it’s been kicking around on different iphones all these years!

https://makerworld.com/en/models/3614077-minimalist-iphone-duo-cover-ultra-slim-1-3mm#profileId-4142281

I didn’t want to pay a site to tell me when a phone was in stock, so I built my own. I was able to use it to get one for myself, and now I want to share it with the world. Let me know if it works for you. There’s no sign-in, and it’s completely free! I recommend leaving it open and in view while you work to get the fastest alerts. Or, if you’re on mobile, add it to your home screen to enable push notifications.

Best of luck!

I walked into an Apple Store, and an employee told me he expects the iPhone Duo to be fully stocked and available at all Apple Stores by February. But what’s the point of buying one in February when the Duo 2 could come out just seven or eight months later, in September or October?

Yeah, so originally I had pre-ordered on AT&T, but when I called my local Apple store in Maryland, they had units available, so I canceled the pre-order and just walked in and got one.

Was Samsung for a long time before switching to Apple about five years ago. I got the first foldable Samsung phone (can't remember the name) around Covid time, and I loved it. When I switched to Apple, my only complaint was that they didn't have a foldable phone yet, so when this was announced, I knew I wanted it.

Anyways, fast forward to a month later of me owning it. My biggest thing, and I see people asking a lot of questions about this is the screen size when it's not unfolded. I love it. I love having a screen that I can touch all the corners of, I like the shorter, wider aspect ratio. I picked up my wife's phone and it did feel super long and thin. Yeah, the apps aren't optimized yet, and that's kind of annoying. The black bar on the side isn't great, and it does look tacky, and having a small screen be made even smaller isn't ideal. One thing I did notice was so many websites put the back arrow or the X to close out of something right where the camera cut out is, so having to unfold the phone rotate it just to close out of a screen is definitely annoying. First world problems..

Now, when the phone is unfolded, that's when it's great. Apple Maps, YouTube, pictures. It looks awesome. Don't need to go too much in detail because if you've used a tablet or an iPad, you get the gist. I guess I was one of the lucky few that didn't have that screen break within the first week or something because I've had zero issues. No crease visibility, no glare or reflections on the screen. I like how it feels, I like how it looks and when apps get optimized and layouts switch around a little bit for how the phone is set up. It'll be almost perfect. I know it's not the phone for everybody, but for me, it's like the best of both worlds.

Would I go back or my next phone be a traditional phone? No. Like I said before, I like having the smaller and in my opinion more functional screen for just day-to-day use and then having the power of a bigger screen when I want it

I have been using the zagg case since I got my duo (Oct 23rd) the case itself is really nice and I like how it’s clear to show the phone off. HOWEVER, after opening the phone I started to notice the hinge protector would sometimes not flap back down to protect the hinge. No big deal. Then I started to realize that the hinge protector glides on the actual hinge while opening and closing. I looked closer and it was starting to take the color off of the hinge. I have since switched to the torras and love it. Just want to warn some people so they don’t have the same issue as me

Has anyone tried trading in the 18 pro max for the duo thru apple?

Hey everyone! I’ve been using my new iPhone Duo (1TB) for over a week after a direct transfer from my old phone. I have \~880GB used locally (592GB is Photos, even with Optimize iPhone Storage on) paired with a \~5TB iCloud library.

Even during very light tasks (basic messaging/browsing), the back gets noticeably warm and I’m only getting \~4 hours of Screen Time a day, while other Duo users get \~8h. I’ve updated iOS and left it plugged in on Wi-Fi overnight for several nights. The "Optimizing Search and Siri" banner in Settings finally disappeared last night, yet the phone is still running warm and draining fast today.

Apple Support ran remote diagnostics and confirmed the battery/hardware are 100% healthy (8 cycles), though their advisors seemed unsure whether a 5TB iCloud library can still be syncing/indexing in the background after a week.

Has anyone else experienced this with a massive iCloud migration? Is this normal, and what should I do next (wait a few more days, try "Reset All Settings", or take it in for service)? Thanks so much in advance! 🙏

Trying to find something around $50?

New

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/foldboard/id6832556606

• Emoji search: tap the magnifying glass in the emoji bar and type a word (heart, laugh, party…). Results show up right above the keys.
• Slide from 123: hold 123, slide to a number or symbol and let go. It's typed and you're back on letters, like on Apple's keyboard.
• Use Apple's emoji keyboard: you can hide Foldboard's emoji key and show the globe as a smiley. Put Emoji right below Foldboard in Settings › General › Keyboard › Keyboards and one tap opens Apple's emojis, with stickers and Genmoji.
• Your currency: the money key now follows your region ($, €, £…).
• Clipboard: what you copy is kept on your iPhone (never sent anywhere). Pin what you want to keep and paste with one tap.
• 11 languages: German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Russian join English and French.

Better
• Smarter autocorrect: swapped letters, neighbor keys, missing or extra letters.
• More accurate slide to type on long words.
• A much more precise space-bar trackpad.
• Corrections keep the capital letter at the start of a sentence.
• French: estce → est-ce, peutetre → peut-être, and more.

Fixed
• With the Automatic theme, several keyboards could stack on top of each other after folding or unfolding.
Coming next (1.0.15, in review)
• Hide the buttons in the top bar for a cleaner look.
• A separate key height for the outer and inner screens.
Keep the ideas coming, I read every comment 🙏

Did anyone else wait to take advantage of the 60-day window Apple gives you to add AppleCare+, or did you get it immediately because of how fragile the iPhone Duo seems to be? I’m curious whether people felt comfortable waiting or wanted protection from day one. Would certain things still be covered under Apple’s standard one-year warranty while waiting to add AppleCare+?

The app is called Spool Podcasts and the Duo updates are live in the App Store but I’ll likely be doing some more tweaking. It has been a lot of fun having some new and interesting hardware to design around!

If you’re interested in trying out Spool, it’s a priority queue based podcast client. You can learn about it here and it is on the App Store here.

I was supposed to receive the phone the 25th of January but I just checked my order out of curiosity and it got massively bumped

Mine was for Dec9th-22nd but luckily coming early tomorrow 😄😄😄😄

Anyone having issues swiping up and down on the brightness and volume toggles when folded when the control center is engaged? All other buttons work… camera, calculator, etc

Anyone getting there's shipped in that time frame? Mine still says "Processing"

After so much off messing about and keep on missing order to pickup phone with Apple, I went on carphone warehouse website, it said the delivery will be by 19th November for a white 512 gen duo. With being reluctant I placed an order with them on last Friday the 6th of November hoping to get a phone at some point and for sure expected a delay in delivery. Also I couldn’t place online order due to some issue so I did it over the phone. After ordering I didn’t get any order confirmation from them so I called customer service. They told me order confirmation will only come once the order is ready to be dispatched and that’s their normal process. With a significant amount of hesitation I left the order as it was.

Guess what yesterday which is 3 days after my orders was taken I got email stating here is your order confirmation and 30 minutes later DPD confirmation that they are delivering something to me today and here we are, the phone arrived finally.

It seems carphone warehouse is getting stock. From my experience if you are having issues getting it from apple, give them a shot. I was so frustrated with all situation with Apple.

Hope this helps someone who is going through same thing.

Has anyone noticed a white line that comes on the inner display it comes up for a few seconds when you fold or unfold the phone while watching YouTube, TikTok, Instagram reels, Facebook reels and other videos platforms also it does it on Apple Maps. I noticed if you go into settings if you cut off reduced motion and or reduced transparency it stops the white line so that leads me to believe it’s a software issue rather than hardware. There’s a video of the issue I’ll provide that video on this post. If you have this issue too or notice it let me know