The Duo apps are coming, says Apple

The early iPhone Duo reviews were a spot hard connected Apple’s caller foldable for the deficiency of Duo-optimized apps disposable astatine the clip of launch. But Apple says things are changing rapidly connected the bundle front. The institution connected Friday announced determination are present implicit 100,000 apps built for the Duo unrecorded connected the App Store, and it’s seeing thousands much being added to the store each day.

The quality was timed alongside the merchandise of implicit a twelve much notable Duo-ready apps, including Microsoft Word and Outlook, Zoom, sports apps from the NBA and NHL, buying apps similar Etsy and LTK, productivity apps similar Goodnotes and Extra, the Halide Mark III camera app, and others. These articulation the iPhone Duo-optimized apps that were already available, similar Netflix, YouTube, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Non-optimized apps are decidedly little than ideal, arsenic they travel with a achromatic barroom connected the broadside of the screen, which takes up invaluable space. Sometimes, they fell important functions nether an overflow menu.

Apple’s information seems to suggest that astatine slightest immoderate iOS developers whitethorn person needed other clip to get their apps acceptable for its latest signifier factor. The institution said that implicit 2,000 app developers attended its implicit 50 in-person workshops that were hosted crossed 19 cities worldwide. Here, the developers could usage the Duo and enactment connected their apps with Apple’s support.

The Duo has besides proven to beryllium much fashionable than possibly Apple had planned for, fixed its precocious terms point. (It starts astatine $1,999 for the 256GB model.) The instrumentality rapidly sold retired wrong hours of orders opening up, and now, Duo vessel times person shifted into the adjacent year. On its net telephone this week, Apple said it’s “hard to predict” erstwhile the Duo constraints starring to those delays volition improve.

“It’s been fantastic to spot however rapidly developers person embraced iPhone Duo, and we’re grateful for their creativity and innovation,” said Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations, successful a connection referring to the 100,000-app milestone. “The enthusiasm has been incredible, and we’re excited to spot the gait of updates proceed to accelerate arsenic much and much apps optimize for iPhone Duo,” she added.

Other notable apps that person been updated for iOS 27 and optimized for the iPhone Duo see the following: Spotify, CBS, Tubi, BBC iPlayer (UK), Yahoo Fantasy Sports, Sportsnet (Canada), Facebook Messenger, Google Chat, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, Microsoft Copilot, Excel, PowerPoint, SAP Concur, monday.com, PDF Expert, Documents, iA Writer, Substack, The Washington Post, Yahoo News, FOX News, Kalshi, Yahoo Finance, Canva, Suno, Tinder, Google Translate, Strava, Alma, Withings, MyFitnessPal, Bevel, Transit, Citi Bike, ParkMobile, Viator, Tesla Robotaxi, Priceline, Kroger, Domino’s, Taco Bell, Untappd, The Weather Channel, FOX Weather, and RainViewer.

Not each these updates person yet to afloat rotation out, we should note.

Spotify, for instance, is inactive showing the achromatic barroom connected the side, and the App Store doesn’t yet accidental an update is disposable connected our reappraisal portion of the Duo. However, fixed that this database comes straight from Apple, we expect to spot these updates soon.