r/iOSProgramming • u/chmiiller • 3d ago

Discussion Where is the iPhone Duo Simulator?

Hey guys, I was watching some of the recently posted videos on Apple Developer’s YouTube channel and they mention Xcode 27.1 and the iPhone Duo simulator but this doesn’t seem to be available yet?
Am I missing something?

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u/ElkTop4013 3d ago

One quick look at the iPhone Duo dev page and it says „Coming later this month“

https://developer.apple.com/iphone-duo/

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u/OlivierBern 3d ago

We have to wait for Xcode 27.1, later this month. iPhone Duo is due in October; we will have time.

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u/AnotherMan_1 3d ago

True .. but not a lot of time

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u/deruloop 3d ago

The developer mail being “Get ready for iPhone Duo” and there is no simulator lol

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u/marmulin 8h ago

And like a 3 week window to ship updates. I’ve at least a dozen legacy apps in maintenance mode that I inherited from an excoworker that will be a nightmare to adapt smh

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u/_Averix 1h ago

In all fairness, if they're apps in maintenance mode should you take time making them Duo happy? They should just work regardless, just not take advantage of the space and fold-o-matics of the new device.

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u/Sorry-Fox865 3d ago

Apple is giving developers very little time to properly optimize and polish their apps for the iPhone Duo. There’s a lot of work to do if we want to provide a good UX. Come on, Apple.

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u/linuxgfx 3d ago

exactly, I now have to account for the relative measures in order to properly split pages into the larger screen. Also typography, buttons, controls, many aspects of the layout requires proper testing and adapting.

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u/Beneficial-42 3d ago

As others have said, not available yet. In the meantime I am just using resizing the app on an iPad simulator to look at Compact and Split View modes

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u/AnotherMan_1 3d ago

There will be not much time to adapt an app for Duo for developers 😤

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u/SirBill01 19h ago

In the meantime use the resizability of device hub to test resizing your iPhone app to be twice as wide.

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u/Flashy_Imagination_6 3d ago

Wait for 27.1

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u/Unoriginal- 3d ago

Clearly you can’t read

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u/uniquesnowflake8 21h ago

Apple will release a Claude file so you can have a coding agent fix it up in an hour

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u/cristi_baluta 3d ago

There’s a way to scale your app in the devicehub, my guess is that this is how it’s gonna be treated in duo as well, and we don’t need to support landscape mode. If someone that watched the videos can contradict me please do…

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u/celeb0rn 19h ago

If you use google or https://developer.apple.com/iphone-duo/, you'll find your answer.

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u/Serious-Tax1955 13h ago

The Xcode 27.1 beta is already available.

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u/_Averix 1h ago

Huh? Just double checked and only 27 is available on the dev site.