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I Worked for a Whole Day Using Only the iPhone Duo. Here’s How It Went

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I Worked for a Whole Day Using Only the iPhone Duo. Here’s How It Went

An iPhone 18 Pro is $1,199. An iPad is $449. If you want both—the iPhone as your primary device and the iPad to handle some work when you’re away from your desk—you'll be spending a total dollar amount that’s pretty close to the $1,999 price of Apple’s first folding smartphone, the iPhone Duo.

So can the Duo’s 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?

I wrote my entire iPhone Duo review on Apple’s new handset. I used a note-taking app called Bear, which was mercifully optimized for the Duo’s larger screen. (Read my review and you’ll hear about how most apps aren’t optimized; it could take weeks or months for everything to look right.) But surprisingly, I didn’t hate the experience.

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’t recognize a Bluetooth mouse or trackpad by default. Instead, you have to go to the phone’s accessibility settings and enable AssistiveTouch—then you’ll get an iPad-like cursor that lets you navigate the Duo’s interface and select text without constantly reaching for the touchscreen.

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’s content management system.


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