In a few hours from now, Apple will introduce its most ambitious product in a decade. We’re talking about the foldable iPhone, which might end up hitting the shelves as the iPhone Duo. The most exciting part? It will support Apple Pencil, as per a report by Bloomberg.
The support for a stylus input is no small matter. The whole idea behind making a foldable phone is to offer users a bigger canvas to consume content, and more importantly, do something that they otherwise can’t handle on a cramped 6-inch screen of a phone.
Apple landed on the iPhone Duo name for the foldable iPhone and a $2,000 starting price, eating the additional memory costs. Storage capacities will reach 2 terabytes and roughly $3,000. It’ll ship in October, has support for the Apple Pencil and come in dark blue + white. https://t.co/58VLtVNka6
Now that we have smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, or the Razr Fold, the inner 8-inch foldable screen offers users tablet-like canvas. But here’s the disappointing part. Every brand out there tells you that you can get immersive work done, like video editing or photo touch-up, on the tab let like a screen of their foldable phone. However, getting it done using your fingers is not as intuitive as it looks in flashy advertisement videos.
Needless to say, stylus support on foldable phones is such a huge missed opportunity. Samsung, despite being the biggest proponent of stylus support on phones, doesn’t let you play around with an S Pen on its Galaxy Z series foldable phones. Motorola’s Razr Fold is an exception, and so is the Oppo Find N6.
The iPhone Duo is about to join this small pool of foldable phones that support stylus input. Now it’s not clear whether the iPhone Duo will support the Apple Pencil (that you can buy alongside the current crop of iPads), or if it will come with its own miniaturized stylus, copying the approach taken by Motorola or Oppo.
What can work in Apple’s favor, however, is the company’s deep expertise with stylus input. For tablet users, the Apple Pencil Pro is still widely regarded as one of the most advanced and reliable stylists out there. Apple will certainly use that engineering pedigree to offer a standout stylus experience on the iPhone duo, which is expected to cost $2,000 and reportedly goes on sale in October.
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Merely days after the iPhone Duo hit the shelves, images of broken screens on the phone started popping up across social media. Until now, it’s been unclear what’s causing the line of defective pixels that appears vertically along the crease, as well as horizontally, on the phone’s inner display.
Apple has finally acknowledged the issue, which has shown up on iPhone Duo units owned by customers as well as demo units in stores. In a statement shared with Bloomberg, Apple says that not all iPhone Duo units are affected and that those that are tend to show the display fault early on. The company added that users who experience problems with their iPhone Duo display should contact AppleCare for a replacement.
Not long ago, Apple treated independent repair like an act of outright hostility. The Cupertino giant locked down parts with serial-number pairing, while repair tools remained firmly out of reach of anyone outside its authorized repair network. More importantly, the company waged a legal and lobbying battle against right-to-repair legislation.
I've covered enough of these fights over the years to know what a shift looks like. That's why what happened in October 2026 genuinely caught me off guard. The day the iPhone Duo went on sale, what may be the most mechanically complex iPhone to date, Apple pulled off a surprising about-face. It published teardown-style repair manuals for a handful of major components.