{"id":23544,"date":"2026-09-14T15:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/?p=23544"},"modified":"2026-09-14T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:58:23","slug":"this-video-shows-iphone-duos-crease-is-barely-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/14\/this-video-shows-iphone-duos-crease-is-barely-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"This Video Shows iPhone Duo\u2019s Crease is Barely Visible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There\u2019s a crease on the iPhone Duo<\/a>. You just have to work surprisingly hard<\/em> to find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A new video from 9to5Mac<\/a> gives us one of the clearest looks yet at the Duo\u2019s inner display, and the result is pretty remarkable. Move the phone around and, eventually, you can catch the faintest hint of where the display folds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But head-on? In normal use? \u2014 It basically disappears<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What iPhone Duo looks like when unfolded – 9to5Mac<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s important because the crease has always been the elephant in the room with foldable phones. You can make a phone thinner, lighter and more durable, but if there\u2019s a big visible line running straight through the middle of your \u00a31,999 screen<\/a>, you\u2019re going to notice it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple appears to have taken a slightly different approach with the Duo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than pretending the physics of a folding display don\u2019t exist, Apple has designed the display, its surface treatment and iOS around making the crease as unobtrusive as possible<\/a>. The 7.6-inch inner display uses a custom<\/strong> nano-texture finish<\/strong> that also helps reduce reflections, while iOS can shift content and controls away from the centre as the phone opens and closes<\/a>. (9to5Mac<\/a>\u2060)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that combination seems to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interesting thing about this video isn\u2019t that the crease has magically vanished<\/a>. It hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s that you can actively go looking for it and still struggle<\/em> to see it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the more realistic definition of a successful foldable display. The goal was never going to be making a piece of flexible glass behave exactly like a sheet of glass. The goal is making you forget you\u2019re looking at something that folds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From what we\u2019re seeing so far, Apple might have got surprisingly close.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The crease is there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, it\u2019s barely visible. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s probably one of the most impressive feats of engineering when it comes down to the iPhone Duo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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