The biggest question I had about the forthcoming ‘iPhone Fold’ is which OS it would run. Given that it’s still an iPhone, you’d assume iOS. But that would presumably require some new flavor of iOS given the whole foldable screen element. That mixed with the fact that it sure looked like the interior screen, when unfolded, would be similar to an iPad mini led me to wonder if we might get a true hybrid: iOS on the outside, iPadOS on the inside. A sort of mullet device.
Not so, says Mark Gurman in his latest report about the device for Bloomberg:
Apple is developing new iOS app layouts and revamping its core iPhone programs to add sidebars along the left edge of the screen, similar to many of its iPad apps. Developers will also be able to adapt their iPhone software for the new…
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