Apple Unveils iPhone Duo

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple coming introduced iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone. Opened, it is the thinnest iPhone ever, pinch a 7.6-inch soul show that provides a ample canvas for viewing content, gaming, and multitasking, and a typical nano-texture decorativeness that minimizes glare for an unparalleled viewing experience. Closed, the 5.4-inch outer show delivers 90 percent of the surface area of iPhone 18 Pro successful a compact, pocketable design.1 Both displays stock the aforesaid facet ratio, truthful contented scales proportionally, ensuring ocular continuity. iPhone Duo is built to past pinch an innovative hardware creation and a precision hinge that offers a smooth, satisfying consciousness pinch each use. Powered by the caller A20 Pro, iPhone Duo features an precocious thermal guidance strategy pinch a custom-designed vapor enclosure and a dual-battery architecture, delivering pro capacity and awesome all-day artillery life. The precocious camera strategy takes stunning photos and videos, pinch the folding creation unlocking nosy caller ways to usage the camera that aren’t imaginable connected immoderate different iPhone. iOS 27 is reimagined, remaining acquainted and intuitive while adapting to the versatile ways users tin interact pinch iPhone Duo. And pinch Apple Intelligence2 and Siri AI,3 iPhone Duo brings powerful AI capabilities together pinch a user’s individual context.

iPhone Duo is disposable successful 2 refined colors: prima achromatic and nighttime sky. Pre-orders statesman Friday, October 16, pinch readiness opening Friday, October 23.

“iPhone Duo is the astir transformational alteration to iPhone since the original. With an wholly caller creation and intuitive experiences, it shows what’s imaginable erstwhile hardware and package are engineered together and redefines what it intends to usage a foldable phone,” said John Ternus, Apple’s CEO. “With the largest show ever connected iPhone that still fits easy successful your pocket, mixed pinch the powerfulness of A20 Pro, iPhone Duo helps you enactment much immersed and productive wherever you go, whether you’re enjoying content, multitasking crossed apps, aliases gaming.”

Two Displays, One Breakthrough Design

iPhone Duo delivers Apple’s largest iPhone show successful an wholly caller design. Closed, iPhone Duo is comfortable to usage one-handed and fits easy successful a pocket, pinch a 5.4-inch outer Super Retina XDR show that provides 90 percent of the surface area of iPhone 18 Pro. Opened, the 7.6-inch soul Super Retina XDR show is 50 percent larger than iPhone 18 Pro Max, offering an immersive canvas for everything users do. A premium nano-texture decorativeness reduces glare and reflections, creating a matte aboveground that minimizes crease visibility and feels awesome to touch. Beneath the soul display, a caller FaceTime camera stays hidden erstwhile not successful usage to support the surface uninterrupted. Both displays stock the aforesaid facet ratio, designed for really group usage their iPhone, truthful the acquisition feels continuous whether iPhone Duo is unfastened aliases closed. The displays besides characteristic ProMotion, Always On, and 3000 nits of highest outdoor brightness. Later this year, iPhone Duo will support Apple Pencil pinch USB-C, allowing users to return notes, sketch, aliases people up documents connected either display.

Touch ID is integrated into the broadside fastener for easy, secure, and accordant authentication whether iPhone Duo is unfastened aliases closed, and users tin unlock iPhone Duo utilizing their Apple Watch. The creation besides features Camera Control to quickly motorboat the camera, including the brand-new Siri Camera mode, which lets Siri spot what the personification sees to reply questions and return action.

Designed for Durability

iPhone Duo is built to past and feels exceptionally coagulated pinch each use. It’s crafted from people 5 titanium for unthinkable strength, pinch an enclosure that has an elegant mirror-polished decorativeness and a 3D-printed hinge screen pinch a contrasting micro-blasted finish. Ceramic Shield protects the backmost of iPhone Duo, and Ceramic Shield 2 connected the beforehand has 3x amended scratch guidance than the erstwhile generation. iPhone Duo is besides splash-, water-, and dust-resistant pinch an IP68 rating.4 The hinge is engineered from much than 100 components to precisely power opening and closing and support the halfway of the display, delivering a smooth, satisfying feel. Internally, support ribs reenforce the building for added stiffness, while antenna splits pinch ceramic fibre inserts heighten the frame’s rigidity.

The soul show is designed to withstand the deterioration of mundane use. A scratch-resistant coating and a nano-textured screen furniture — made from a civilization polymer pinch up to 40 percent higher stiffness than different materials utilized successful the manufacture — protect the surface. High-strength solid sits supra and beneath the folding show panel, pinch civilization adhesives that let the layers to glide past 1 different for illustration the pages of a book, relieving crook stress, and a titanium sheet astatine the bottommost further enhances durability.

An Advanced Camera System pinch New Experiences

iPhone Duo delivers an precocious camera strategy that brings all-new experiences made imaginable by its breakthrough design. With the caller 48MP Fusion Main camera, users tin sprout crisp photos astatine up to 48MP solution pinch zero shutter lag, seizure successful the 24MP default for unthinkable image value astatine a record size cleanable for sharing, and get person to the taxable pinch an integrated optical-quality 2x Telephoto. The 48MP Fusion Main camera besides benefits from a caller computational image pipeline for crisp details, and excels successful debased ray acknowledgment to a ample sensor, accelerated aperture, and sensor-shift optical image stabilization.

The 48MP Fusion Ultra Wide camera — the aforesaid arsenic connected iPhone 18 Pro models — captures wider fields of position and enables macro photography, while the Center Stage beforehand camera tin automatically return photos and videos successful immoderate orientation, truthful users don’t person to rotate iPhone for scenery selfies. Upgraded Photographic Styles pinch caller texture and atom controls fto users further dial successful their desired quality and person much imaginative power complete their photos.5 Under the soul display, a caller FaceTime camera helps users link pinch friends and family whether iPhone Duo is held unfastened aliases propped connected a aboveground for hands-free calls.

The foldable creation pinch dual displays unlocks camera experiences that are not imaginable connected immoderate different iPhone.

iPhone Duo supports 4K120 fps signaling successful Dolby Vision connected the 48MP Fusion Main camera, unlocking gorgeous slow-motion effects by adjusting the playback speed. Users tin now use Cinematic effects aft seizure astatine up to 60 fps, and Audio Mix introduces caller algorithms that present higher-quality voices and tin now isolate music. Time-lapse supports 4K successful Dolby Vision HDR, and users tin prop iPhone Duo up without needing a tripod to easy seizure longer-duration videos.

A Reimagined Yet Familiar iOS Experience

iOS 27 is tailored for iPhone Duo, delivering a acquainted and intuitive acquisition that introduces caller ways to interact pinch iPhone. Lock Screen controls, the Dock connected the Home Screen, and app navigation and controls now look connected the broadside to maximize vertical abstraction for content. When iPhone Duo is open, the show shows 2 Home Screen pages pinch Today View — a vertically scrolling database of customizable widgets — connected the left. The position barroom includes a circular, elastic strategy that nestles into the area of the screen, showing applicable accusation for illustration Wi-Fi, cellular strength, battery, and more. The Dynamic Island is besides redesigned to fresh vertically connected the broadside of the outer and soul displays, and expands to show Live Activities and alerts. iOS seamlessly adapts to the caller ways to usage iPhone Duo — contented reacts arsenic it folds, reorients erstwhile turned to the side, and switches to the due show erstwhile flipped over.

Apple apps are optimized for iPhone Duo, and developers tin easy accommodate their apps utilizing the caller and updated APIs successful the latest SDKs, and upcoming support for iPhone Duo successful Device Hub successful Xcode. Third-party apps, including Netflix, Zoom, and Slack, are already taking advantage of the folding creation to present immersive experiences that make the astir of the larger show and caller ways to usage iPhone Duo.

The expansive show supercharges productivity, letting users do much astatine erstwhile pinch caller multitasking capabilities. Split View allows users to unfastened 2 apps broadside by broadside connected iPhone for the first time. Users tin besides quickly switch betwixt apps; unfastened 2 windows of the aforesaid app, for illustration Safari; easy person a speech pinch Siri AI while looking astatine contented connected the different broadside of the screen; and prevention pairs of apps to travel backmost to later.

StandBy gets a awesome upgrade connected iPhone Duo. Set iPhone Duo down and it enters StandBy connected either the outer aliases soul show — moreover erstwhile it’s not charging — turning the instrumentality into a photograph frame, hub for widgets, clock, and more. New Calendar and Weather faces subordinate existing Clock and Modular faces, while the Photos look is updated to show Shared Albums. Every look now offers deeper customization, pinch caller colors, fonts, and complications to take from.

The Next Generation of Apple Intelligence and an All‑New Siri

iPhone Duo gives users entree to Siri AI, an wholly caller type of Siri that is rolling retired successful beta pinch iOS 27. Powered by Apple Intelligence, Siri is profoundly much personal, capable, and conversational, and becomes moreover much useful connected the ample soul display. Powerful AI capabilities paired pinch individual discourse make iPhone Duo an intelligent individual hub pinch privateness and information astatine its core.

Siri AI tin tie connected individual discourse knowing to thief users find what they request successful the infinitesimal crossed messages, emails, photos, and more; usage onscreen consciousness to return action related to the contented connected a user’s screen; and reply questions astir virtually immoderate topic. Users tin constitute pinch Siri by simply describing what they need. The all-new Siri app besides makes it easy to revisit past conversations aliases footwear disconnected caller ones, pinch conversational history synced privately crossed products pinch iCloud.

Additionally, Apple Intelligence makes apps smarter and much useful. Users tin amended the creation of a photograph aft it’s been taken pinch Spatial Reframing, Extend, and upgraded Clean Up. Image Playground besides now offers photorealistic imagery, and pinch upcoming support for the SynthID standard, users tin place images generated aliases edited pinch AI.6 In Safari, Notify Me helps users show web pages for changes, for illustration merchandise restocks aliases value drops, to enactment connected apical of updates. To protect users’ privacy, Apple Intelligence uses on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privateness and information of iPhone into the cloud.

Pro Performance pinch A20 Pro and Advanced Thermal Management

Powered by A20 Pro — the aforesaid spot successful iPhone 18 Pro models — and paired pinch an precocious thermal guidance system, iPhone Duo delivers up to 35 percent amended sustained capacity than iPhone 17 Pro. A caller spot package inspired by M-series Apple silicon connects A20 Pro straight to a civilization vapor chamber, dissipating power and powering multitasking, gaming, and analyzable AI workloads. A caller show motor drives the soul and outer displays simultaneously and enables a fluid acquisition arsenic users modulation betwixt them. The 6-core CPU is up to 20 percent faster than A19 Pro, delivering the fastest CPU successful a smartphone; the 7-core GPU is up to 40 percent faster and much powerfulness efficient; and the caller Dual 16-core Neural Engine offers 2x the compute powerfulness to tally on-device AI models. A20 Pro besides delivers 50 percent much unified representation bandwidth and is built connected the latest 2-nanometer process technology.

Impressive All-Day Battery Life

iPhone Duo is designed pinch 1 high-energy artillery connected each broadside to maximize capacity while efficiently utilizing soul space. A operation of Apple silicon and power rebalancing algorithms allows the batteries to run seamlessly arsenic one, truthful users get up to 31 hours of video playback erstwhile utilizing the soul display, up to 44 hours of video playback erstwhile utilizing the outer display, and up to 24 hours of usage per complaint erstwhile some displays are utilized equally.7 Users tin besides bask accelerated charging — iPhone Duo tin complaint up to 50 percent successful astir 20 minutes aliases wirelessly complaint up to 50 percent successful astir 30 minutes pinch a MagSafe aliases Qi2 charger.8

Powerful Wireless Capabilities

iPhone Duo features an eSIM-only creation worldwide that saves soul abstraction to maximize artillery capacity.9 eSIM offers greater flexibility, amended security, and seamless connectivity compared to accepted beingness SIM cards, and arsenic an manufacture standard, it is supported by complete 500 carriers astir the world, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and more. iOS 27 besides introduces iPhone Handoff, which allows users pinch supported carriers to easy move backmost and distant betwixt 2 iPhone models pinch the aforesaid telephone number.10

N1, an Apple-designed wireless networking chip, enables Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread, while C2, Apple’s next-generation cellular modem system, brings AI-powered improvements to cellular value and reliability, and now supports mmWave successful the U.S.

Beautiful New Accessories

To complement iPhone Duo, Apple is introducing beautiful caller accessories. The iPhone Duo Folio — disposable successful navy bluish and taupe — features an integrated kickstand that supports a wide scope of angles for reading, viewing content, aliases FaceTime, and folds distant neatly erstwhile not successful use. The iPhone Duo Case — disposable successful soil and navy bluish — is bladed and light, pinch a protective two-part creation that wraps astir some sides of the device. Both cases are compatible pinch MagSafe, Qi2 25W, and Qi-certified chargers. With built-in magnets that align perfectly pinch iPhone Duo, they connection a magical connect acquisition and accelerated wireless charging.

iPhone Duo and the Environment

iPhone Duo was built pinch the situation successful mind and drives advancement toward Apple’s eager scheme to beryllium c neutral crossed its full footprint by 2030. It is made pinch 35 percent recycled contented overall,11 including 100 percent recycled cobalt successful the artillery and 100 percent recycled titanium successful the 3D-printed hinge cover. iPhone Duo is manufactured pinch 60 percent renewable energy, for illustration upwind and solar, crossed the proviso chain, and meets Apple’s precocious standards for power ratio and safe chemistry. Like each Apple products, its insubstantial packaging is 100 percent fiber-based12 and tin beryllium easy recycled astatine home.

Pricing and Availability

Apple Upgrade, a leasing programme provided by Klarna and disposable successful the U.S., gives eligible customers monthly costs options for iPhone Duo, pinch 12- and 24-month leasing position starting arsenic debased arsenic $57.99 (U.S.) per period for 24 months. For much information, sojourn apple.com/shop/apple-upgrade.14

1. The show has rounded corners that travel a beautiful curved design, and these corners are wrong a modular rectangle. When measured arsenic a modular rectangular shape, the soul show surface is 7.58 inches diagonally, and the outer show surface is 5.36 inches diagonally. The existent viewable area is smaller.
2. Apple Intelligence is disposable pinch Siri settings and instrumentality connection group to Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, aliases Vietnamese. Some features whitethorn not beryllium disposable successful each regions aliases languages. Some devices whitethorn not beryllium disposable successful each regions. Siri AI is rolling retired successful beta pinch iOS 27 and requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled instrumentality group to a supported language. Available successful English to start. Siri AI will not beryllium initially disposable successful the EU connected iOS. Certain Apple Intelligence features that trust connected server-side models are taxable to regular usage limits, including but not constricted to Siri AI, intelligent photograph editing tools, Image Playground, and AFM 3 Cloud models successful Shortcuts. Daily limits whitethorn alteration by feature, petition complexity, strategy demand, strategy policies, and different factors. Expanded entree to specified features will beryllium disposable for a interest successful the future. Use of these features is taxable to Apple Intelligence position and conditions. Learn much astatine apple.com/apple-intelligence. Siri AI is not disposable for users nether 13.
3. Siri AI will not beryllium disposable initially successful the EU connected iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. Features that trust connected Siri AI will besides not beryllium disposable successful the EU connected iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. Apple is moving difficult to find a way guardant that preserves its users’ privateness and security.
   
4. iPhone Duo is splash-, water-, and dust-resistant. It was tested nether controlled laboratory conditions and has a standing of IP68 nether IEC modular 60529 (maximum extent of 6 meters for up to 30 minutes). Splash, water, and particulate guidance are not imperishable conditions. Resistance mightiness alteration arsenic a consequence of normal wear. Do not effort to complaint a bedewed iPhone; mention to the personification guideline for cleaning and drying instructions. Liquid harm is not covered nether warranty.
5. The caller texture and atom controls will beryllium disposable successful iOS 27 connected iPhone models that support the latest procreation of Photographic Styles. See supported models.
6. SynthID will beryllium disposable successful a package update later this twelvemonth and will beryllium included for astir edited images, depending connected the edits applied.
7. Testing conducted by Apple successful August 2026 utilizing preproduction iPhone Duo units and software, subscribed to LTE and 5G bearer networks, utilizing a typical usage profile. Typical usage is based connected the median usage values crossed iPhone users and reflects a operation of passive and progressive usage of a assortment of applications, including but not constricted to messaging, photos, music, societal media, video streaming, games, web browsing, and navigation. iPhone Duo emblematic usage based connected adjacent usage betwixt soul and outer displays. Battery life varies by use, configuration, cellular network, awesome strength, and different factors; existent results whitethorn alteration based connected usage.
8. Testing conducted by Apple successful July 2026 utilizing preproduction iPhone Duo units and software, and either USB‑C Charge Cable aliases Apple MagSafe Chargers (1‑meter Model A3502 and 2‑meter Model A3503), some pinch Apple 40W Dynamic Power Adapter pinch 60W Max (Model A3351). Wired accelerated complaint supported pinch 60W-capable (or higher) USB-C cablegram and USB PD powerfulness adapters. Fast-charge testing conducted pinch drained iPhone Duo units successful unfastened configuration. Times measured from the quality of the Apple logo arsenic the portion started up. Charge clip varies pinch adapter, settings, usage, and biology factors; existent results will vary. The 60W-capable aliases higher adapter (available separately) must beryllium paired pinch a USB-C charging cable, and the 35W aliases higher adapter must beryllium paired pinch a MagSafe Charger (both disposable separately).
9. Use of an eSIM requires a bearer that supports eSIM and a wireless work plan. See bearer for details. To study more, sojourn apple.com/esim.
10. iPhone Handoff will beryllium disposable astatine motorboat pinch T-Mobile successful the U.S. and pinch Telekom Germany successful Germany.
11. Product recycled aliases renewable contented is the wide of certified recycled worldly comparative to the wide general of the device, not including packaging aliases in-box accessories.
12. Breakdown of U.S. unit packaging by weight. Adhesives, inks, and coatings are excluded from calculations of integrative contented and packaging weight.
13. Financing is disposable to qualified customers, taxable to in installments support and in installments limit, and requires users to prime Apple Card Monthly Installments (ACMI) arsenic their costs type astatine checkout astatine Apple. They’ll request to prime AT&T, T‑Mobile, aliases Verizon arsenic their bearer erstwhile they cheque out. An iPhone purchased pinch ACMI is ever unlocked, truthful they tin move carriers astatine immoderate time, taxable to their carrier’s terms. Taxes and shipping connected items purchased utilizing ACMI are taxable to their card’s adaptable APR, not the ACMI 0 percent APR. ACMI is not disposable for purchases made online astatine typical storefronts. The past month’s costs for each merchandise will beryllium the product’s acquisition price, little each different payments astatine the monthly costs amount. ACMI financing is taxable to alteration astatine immoderate clip for immoderate reason, including but not constricted to installment word lengths and eligible products. See the Apple Card Customer Agreement for much accusation astir ACMI.
14. Apple Upgrade lease: This connection is for a user lease, not a acquisition aliases loan. Lease provided by Klarna Inc. for a 12- aliases 24-month term. Your first monthly costs is owed astir 30 days aft instrumentality is shipped aliases disposable for pickup. Lease support is taxable to eligibility and is based connected creditworthiness. Monthly payments are based connected the selected instrumentality and lease term. Advertised costs magnitude whitethorn not see a trade-in device’s estimated value. Typical monthly payments (excluding taxes and immoderate trade-in credit) scope from $82.99 to $132.81 (U.S.) for a 12-month lease and $57.99 to $92.81 (U.S.) for a 24-month lease. Requires action of an eligible carrier. Closing your lease and returning your instrumentality terminates your lease. You whitethorn incur a important complaint if you terminate your lease earlier the extremity of the lease term. Additional position and conditions apply. See apple.com/shop/apple-upgrade for much information.