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Apple Says More Than 100,000 Apps Now Support the Foldable iPhone Duo

Microsoft Office, Zoom and ChatGPT are among the newly optimised apps, after early reviews criticised the $1,999 foldable for its thin software at launch.

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Apple says more than 100,000 apps optimised for the iPhone Duo foldable are now on the App Store.
Apple says more than 100,000 apps optimised for the iPhone Duo foldable are now on the App Store.Photo: TechCrunch

Apple said on Friday that more than 100,000 apps built for the iPhone Duo are now live on the App Store, and that thousands more are being added each day, as it tries to answer early criticism that its first foldable phone launched with too few apps designed for its screen.

The update matters because apps that have not been adapted for the Duo run with a black bar down the side of the display and can hide functions in overflow menus, undercutting the main reason to buy a $1,999 device. Early reviews had faulted the phone on that point, TechCrunch reported.

Apple released the figure alongside more than a dozen newly optimised apps, including Microsoft Word and Outlook, Zoom, Etsy, Goodnotes and the Halide Mark III camera app. Its wider list of apps updated for iOS 27 and the Duo includes ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Excel and PowerPoint, Google Chat, SAP Concur, monday.com, Canva and Spotify, joining Netflix, YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp, which were ready earlier. TechCrunch noted that not all of the listed updates had rolled out yet; Spotify still showed the black bar on its review unit.

The company said more than 2,000 developers attended over 50 in-person workshops in 19 cities, where they could work on their apps on the device with Apple's help. "It's been wonderful to see how quickly developers have embraced iPhone Duo, and we're grateful for their creativity and innovation," said Susan Prescott, Apple's vice president of worldwide developer relations.

Demand for the phone has run ahead of supply. The Duo, which starts at $1,999 for the 256GB model, sold out within hours of orders opening and delivery times have slipped into next year. On its earnings call this week, Apple said it was "hard to predict" when the constraints behind the delays would ease.

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