The best iPhone Fold feature might be over a decade in the making

Next year’s foldable iPhone is expected to boast several advantages over competition. But what I expect will be the iPhone Fold’s biggest selling point has been more than a decade in the making, rooted in a well-established app feature. iOS apps with adaptive layouts arrived over a decade ago Back in 2014 at WWDC, Apple gave developers tools to build apps with auto-adaptive layouts. The concept of ‘size classes’ in apps was a precursor to a big hardware launch later that year: the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Until then, the iPhone had largely stayed the same size. It got slightly taller with the iPhone 5, but iPhone 6 and 6 Plus represented the first major size changes. Apple knew that third-party iOS apps would need to adapt accordingly. So it created tools to help make that happen. These tools were extremely valuable a year later, when iOS 9 gave the iPad its first true multitasking features. Split View and Slide Over worked seamlessly for apps that had implemented Apple’s new layout t ... Read full article.