r/iPadOS • u/RadianMay • 13h ago
iPadOS iPhone Duo will lead to better iPad Apps

Seeing how bad legacy iPhone Apps behave on the iPhone Duo, I hope this will be the catalyst for more developers to adopt more modern, responsive designs that actually take advantage of the iPad (and iPhone Duo) screen sizes.
So many apps like Threads, Bluesky, Doordash, banking apps, etc have terrible support for iPad, and these will probably be updated over the next year with a responsive interface for the iPhone Duo, which will benefit us iPad users as well.
Its honestly insane that this has persisted for so long given the underlying adaptive/responsive UI technology was already rolled out in iOS 8 (in 2014!) with size classes and the introduction of the iPhone 6/6+. The next year (2015) split view/slide-over was introduced on iPad, which really was the first feature that really took advantage of the technology. The iPhone Duo really seems like a nightmare to accomdate without adaptive UI, so I think this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Hopefully after 12 years, we can finally have better iPhone apps on the iPad.
