Custom interfaces to get the most out of a folding iPhone or iPad are in the works

Folding devices with two screens have potential beyond just more display real estate. Apple is researching, at length, how to make the interfaces of folding iPhone, iPad, or all-screen MacBook Pro more than the sum of its parts.A folding device could have two screens where the bottom one acts as a "soft keyboard"It's not as if it's a surprise that Apple has been researching an iPhone Fold, or a folding iPad. And of course it has had foldable laptops from the PowerBook 100 to today's MacBook Pro.Yet the company is once more researching options that could even replace every one of those devices. After being granted a patent in 2024 for "User Interfaces For Devices With Multiple Displays," Apple has now re-submitted the same technology as a new patent application. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

May 22, 2025 - 21:50

Custom interfaces to get the most out of a folding iPhone or iPad are in the works

Folding devices with two screens have potential beyond just more display real estate. Apple is researching, at length, how to make the interfaces of folding iPhone, iPad, or all-screen MacBook Pro more than the sum of its parts.

Diagram of a foldable smartphone with multiple screens showing a word processing application and a virtual keyboard.

A folding device could have two screens where the bottom one acts as a "soft keyboard"

It's not as if it's a surprise that Apple has been researching an iPhone Fold, or a folding iPad. And of course it has had foldable laptops from the PowerBook 100 to today's MacBook Pro.

Yet the company is once more researching options that could even replace every one of those devices. After being granted a patent in 2024 for "User Interfaces For Devices With Multiple Displays," Apple has now re-submitted the same technology as a new patent application.

Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums