Steve Troughton-Smith4d ago
⭐️ If you for some reason wanted to test your apps using the phone idiom on an expanded-layout device like an iPad, like, say, to simulate what might happen when unfolded on a foldable phone, you might try a swizzle like this that only kicks in when you pass -SimulatePhoneIdiomOnPad YES to your launch arguments
Show threadSteve Troughton-Smith4d ago

I'm a little alarmed at how many assumptions this breaks in several of my apps, including the entirety of my big Broadcasts 4 redesign 🫠

The practical realities of @markgurman stating 'iPhone Fold won't run iPad apps' are actually pretty damn consequential. This is going to mean some painful work for developers. If they don't announce this stuff at WWDC, and instead drop it upon us in September two weeks before launch… 😱

Show threadSteve Troughton-Smith4d ago

I think Apple has a way to preview this at WWDC:

iPadOS 27 *must* allow iPhone apps to be resized to any size.

Then we will have a means to simulate what a phone idiom looks like at larger sizes, without Apple having to preannounce the foldable itself. And it will increase the urgency with which developers have to figure this stuff out, before hundreds of millions of iPad users are resizing their phone apps willy-nilly.

Show threadJacob Wolman4d ago
@stroughtonsmith I wonder how many iPad users run iPhone apps in windowed mode. I do, and it’s a buggy mess, so I would love (a good implementation of) resizeability, but I feel like it’s a niche of a niche case. Hope I’m wrong!
Show threadRhys Morgan4d ago
@jwolman @stroughtonsmith It’s a lot better now that they can run properly in iPhone size with the new windowing mode, altho apps like Bluesky with no iPad app break when opening images, and forcibly rotate and resize.
Show threadJacob Wolman
@rhysmorgan @stroughtonsmith exactly the example I was thinking of/find annoying on a daily basis.
Mar 21 at 11:02pmWeb
Show threadRhys Morgan4d ago
@jwolman @stroughtonsmith haha! I don’t know why it forces the rotation, nor why it forces the window into an enlarged size when closing an image… Very odd behaviour. Here’s hoping 27 fixes it.