{"id":4690,"date":"2026-10-22T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/i-worked-for-a-whole-day-using-only-the-iphone-duo-heres-how-it-went\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:42:00","slug":"i-worked-for-a-whole-day-using-only-the-iphone-duo-heres-how-it-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/i-worked-for-a-whole-day-using-only-the-iphone-duo-heres-how-it-went\/","title":{"rendered":"I Worked for a Whole Day Using Only the iPhone Duo. Here\u2019s How It Went"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An iPhone 18<\/span> Pro is $1,199. An iPad is $449. If you want both\u2014the iPhone as your primary device and the iPad to handle some work when you\u2019re away from your desk\u2014you’ll be spending a total dollar amount that\u2019s pretty close to the $1,999 price of Apple\u2019s first folding smartphone, the iPhone Duo.<\/p>\n

So can the Duo\u2019s 7.6-inch screen pull double duty as a phone and a workstation? Does it make sense to shell out a few hundred more dollars for a single gadget that can theoretically handle the workload of two devices?<\/p>\n

I wrote my entire iPhone Duo review on Apple\u2019s new handset. I used a note-taking app called Bear, which was mercifully optimized for the Duo\u2019s larger screen. (Read my review and you\u2019ll hear about how most apps aren\u2019t optimized; it could take weeks or months for everything to look right.) But surprisingly, I didn\u2019t hate the experience.<\/p>\n

I have run this experiment before on Android foldables and even smart glasses with virtual workspaces, but iOS has its own unique hurdles. Notably, iOS doesn\u2019t recognize a Bluetooth mouse or trackpad by default. Instead, you have to go to the phone\u2019s accessibility settings and enable AssistiveTouch\u2014then you\u2019ll get an iPad-like cursor that lets you navigate the Duo\u2019s interface and select text without constantly reaching for the touchscreen.<\/p>\n

Even with the cursor, small tasks like pasting hyperlinks into a written piece or quickly Googling topics for additional research are slower and more cumbersome, so I left those for the end when I moved everything into WIRED\u2019s content management system. Even then, I had to switch over to my desktop for the final touches.<\/p>\n

Apple also imposes arbitrary multitasking restrictions in iOS because, well, Apple likes to control how people use its devices. For example, if you open two apps in split-screen mode, you can only view them in an equal 50-50 split. Unlike most operating systems that let you adjust how much of each app you can see by dragging the border in between the windows, iOS leaves you stuck with a view that gives both apps equal screen space. If you want to use the iPhone in portrait orientation and stack two apps vertically, one on the top part of the screen and the other on the bottom, you\u2019re out of luck. In portrait mode, you can only pin video apps to the top with another app below.<\/p>\n

One thing Apple did get right is app pairs. You can \u201cpin\u201d two apps together, and they will live in your Recents, ready when you need them. Say you always want to look at your email and calendar together; you can pair them and find them in Recents whenever you need them. (Tap the bar in the middle to lock and save the pair.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An iPhone 18 Pro is $1,199. An iPad is $449. If you want both\u2014the iPhone as your primary device and the iPad to handle some work when you\u2019re away from your desk\u2014you’ll be spending a total dollar amount that\u2019s pretty close to the $1,999 price of Apple\u2019s first folding smartphone, the iPhone Duo. So can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}