{
  "id": 16245572,
  "title": "The iPhone Duo Can Be a Tiny Mac, a Toaster, and a Nintendo DS",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/the-iphone-duo-can-be-a-tiny-mac-a-toaster-and-a-nintendo-ds",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-23T23:22:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacRumors",
    "slug": "macrumors",
    "url": "https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/23/iphone-duo-fun-apps/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The iPhone Duo, with its versatile folding and orientation capabilities, has become a playground for app developers. A variety of apps are taking advantage of this new form factor, transforming the device into everything from a miniature retro computer to a Nintendo DS.\n\nTiny Computers offers a virtual Macintosh-like experience, complete with desktop games, paint programs, and hidden files. Fold & Squish lets users create digital art by painting on one side of the Duo, then \"squishing\" the paint onto the other side. Portal provides a series of calming environments for meditation, with over 100 unique locations. Lake, an adult coloring book, adapts to the Duo's display size, offering a full-page coloring area in portrait mode and full-screen coloring in tent mode.\n\nToastie transforms the Duo into a toaster, challenging users to prepare and cook a perfect grilled cheese sandwich within a time limit. The Delta Game Emulator turns the Duo into a Nintendo DS, complete with controls and sleep mode functionality. TypeDraw turns the Duo into a notebook, supporting Apple Pencil and customizable colors, fonts, and handwriting.\n\nFold Accordion uses the hinge as a bellows, allowing users to create music by opening and closing the Duo. Living Earth is ideal for the Duo's tent mode, displaying live weather maps and a rotating globe. Duometry challenges users to match target angles by folding the Duo, while Deck-Man turns the Duo into a retro cassette player. Lastly, Orisuji is a paper maze game that becomes increasingly complex as the Duo is folded.",
  "summary": "The iPhone Duo has an all-new form factor with multiple folding and orientation options, and app developers are having some fun with it. You can find quite a few apps using the foldable display in unique ways, many with skeuomorphic designs. Tiny Computers ($3.99) Tiny Computers turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a miniature retro computer, with options inspired by the Macintosh, Commodore 64,…",
  "key_points": [
    "iPhone Duo transforms into Mac-like experience with Tiny Computers app",
    "Fold & Squish app enables digital art creation on iPhone Duo",
    "Toastie app turns iPhone Duo into a virtual toaster for cooking tasks"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}