Why This Matters
iOS 27's expanded landscape support significantly enhances the usability of larger iPhone models by offering a more versatile and comfortable horizontal experience across many apps. This development underscores Apple's focus on optimizing larger screens, making premium models like the iPhone Ultra more appealing for users seeking enhanced multitasking and viewing capabilities. For consumers, this means a more productive and immersive iPhone experience, especially on larger devices.
Key Takeaways
- Landscape mode now supports more apps in iOS 27, especially on larger iPhones.
- Larger iPhone models like the iPhone Ultra benefit from improved horizontal usability.
- This update encourages consumers to consider bigger screens for enhanced multitasking and viewing.
iOS 27 includes lots of hints that the iPhone Ultra is coming, and one such hint—expanded landscape support—offers a new reason to upgrade your iPhone screen size, even if you’re not getting the foldable.
Landscape mode expands to many more apps in iOS 27, and it works best on large iPhones
iOS has long supported landscape mode for select apps when using iPhone horizontally. But it was the exception rather than the norm among Apple’s system apps.
When iOS 27 arrives this fall though, it will bring the biggest expansion of landscape support ever.
As such, it provides a compelling new reason to opt for a larger iPhone screen size.
New in iOS 27, landscape mode is now available in the following apps:
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