The iOS 27 beta pretty much confirms that an Apple foldable is happening
Key takeaways
- Can’t a multi-trillion-dollar company have secrets any more?
- Apple Everybody knows that Apple has been working toward creating a foldable phone.
- Sam Henri Gold spied the latest indications that a foldable is in the works in the i OS 27 frameworks.
Can’t a multi-trillion-dollar company have secrets any more?
Apple Everybody knows that Apple has been working toward creating a foldable phone. Maybe the company hasn't given the official word about the project, but we've had more than a few signals about it, such as the experimental i Phone Air that debuted last year. But today's inaugural developer beta of the new i OS 27 also had a few dead giveaways.
Sam Henri Gold spied the latest indications that a foldable is in the works in the i OS 27 frameworks. The documentation contains references to terms such as "foldState" and "angleDegrees" as well as language for the total number of built-in displays on the host device. Each of those point to the operating system being used on a foldable rather than a traditional, single-screen smartphone. 9to5Mac confirmed the existence of these references in iOS 27 and that they were not present in iOS 26.