iOS 27: the feature that could change everything for the foldable iPhone

According to Weibo leaker known as Fixed Focus Digital, Apple is developing landscape app responsiveness for iOS 27. This feature is described as similar to app management on iPadOS, where widescreen scaling is handled directly at the system level, without requiring any rework from developers.

The leaker uses the term "Parallel View" in reference to an existing feature within Huawei's HarmonyOS, which automatically scales smartphone apps to larger screens. To support this leak, journalist Mark Gurman from Bloomberg already indicated last March that iOS 27 would support the display of two applications side by side on the internal screen of the future foldable iPhone, with a layout close to the iPad and navigation bars on the left side for compatible applications.

Avoiding the “letterbox” effect on the iPhone Ultra

Currently, almost all iOS applications are developed exclusively for vertical and narrow screens. Without an integrated software solution, running these applications on an unfolded screen would cause a distorted display or the appearance of unsightly black side bands. The introduction of this display mode would make it possible to exploit the available width by displaying two applications side by side. A sort of patch applied while developers adapt their apps to this new format.

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An expected function for the WWDC 2026 conference

The lack of multitasking functions such as windowed display remains a limitation of iOS compared to the competition under Android. Samsung, Oppo, Honor, Xiaomi, many of them offer a display of two applications on the same screen. The iPhone Fold could be an opportunity for Apple to hang up the wagons by also bringing this shared display to its classic iPhones.

Apple is expected to officially introduce iOS 27 at the WWDC 2026 conference in mid-June, before rolling out in the fall alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Fold (or iPhone Ultra).