[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-apple-support-app-gets-iphone-duo-update-as-reviews-land":10,"sections":49},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":38,"tags":39,"sources":44,"feedback":48,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":48,"total_tokens":48},12064,"apple-support-app-gets-iphone-duo-update-as-reviews-land","Apple Support App Gets iPhone Duo Update as Reviews Land","Apple's own support app now fills the iPhone Duo's wider screen and runs in Split View, while apps that have not been updated still show black bars.","Apple has updated its Apple Support app for the iPhone Duo, so it now fills the phone's wider screen instead of sitting in a letterbox.\n\nThe update adds support for the Duo and for iOS 27.1, the software version the phone ships with. Apple Support now displays properly on the wider display and can run alongside other apps in Split View, which puts two apps on screen at once. Apps that have not been updated are letterboxed: they appear at their old proportions, with thick black bars on each side.\n\nThe timing is not subtle. iPhone Duo reviews went live the same day as the update, and poorly sized apps are a recurring complaint among reviewers. A support app is a minor piece of software, but updating it shows Apple working through its own catalog first. Apple is expected to keep adapting its apps for the device.\n\nThe larger job belongs to third-party developers, and plenty of their updates are expected over the coming weeks. Early hiccups usually follow a major change in screen size, and app compatibility on the Duo should be largely sorted within a few months. That is a forecast, not a commitment from anyone.\n\nFor buyers, Apple's own apps are the easy part. The apps people open dozens of times a day, such as messaging, banking and social, will decide how the Duo feels. Which of those update first will show whether the black bars are launch-window noise or a lingering complaint.","[\"iphone-duo\",\"apple\",\"ios-27\",\"app-store\"]","2026-10-21T17:55:28.000Z","2026-10-21T18:18:18.965Z","2026-10-21T18:18:19.144Z","published",null,[24,30,34],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the unsupported specifics: the source only says 'today', so 'October 21' is invented, and the claims that a width change is a harder layout problem than a height change and that the gap 'closed within months' on the iPhone 5 are unsourced. Tie the 'return window' ending to something the source supports or drop it, and keep the damage-control skepticism tied to the reviewer complaints the source actually reports.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Remove the source-referencing meta language in the last paragraph ('The original coverage describes...', 'the source names no third-party apps') and either attribute the forecast to MacRumors by name or recast it as the publication's own plain statement, and soften 'the timing lines up with the first wave of reviews' so it doesn't imply Apple timed the release to the reviews.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"The meta language is gone and the forecast now reads as the publication's own statement, but the 'October 21' date appears nowhere in the source (which says only 'today'), so cut it or replace it with a verifiable reference. 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