New iPhone Duo Feature Sparks Fears of Human Extinction Among Apple Fans — What You Need to Know
So Apple’s about to drop its first-ever flip phone, the iPhone Duo, and folks are—how do I put this—kind of freaking out about what it means for humanity. Imagine getting a phone that folds like a futuristic ninja star, packs a massive 7.6-inch display when unfolded, yet shrinks down to a pocket-friendly 5.4 inches. Cool, right? Well, here’s the kicker—this thing lets you run two apps side-by-side. Double the doomscrolling, double the distractions. Honestly, are we signing up for twice the screen time doom or just Apple’s way of saying “You can’t quit us now”? Cue the panicked tweets predicting the apocalypse of productivity. But Apple’s CEO isn’t shy about calling this the biggest iPhone shake-up since the OG. Plus, with the power of their A20 Pro chip, maybe multitasking or gaming just got a wild glow-up. Oh, and if that wasn’t enough to twist your tech brain, Apple’s also teasing ‘Audio Intelligence’ on the upcoming Watch Series 12 — an eerily clever gizmo that might remind you of an episode of Black Mirror but promises to keep you safer by listening for things like sirens or crying babies. Creepy? Genius? Maybe a bit of both. Either way, it’s a lot to chew on while we try to figure out if we’re embracing the future or just doomscrolling our way into it.
The imminent release of Apple’s iPhone Duo has got some people very worried about humanity’s future.
On Friday, 23 October, the tech company will be delivering its first-ever flip phone to the masses, with pre-orders set to go ahead the week before.
In its fully collapsed state, the Duo is the thinnest of all the iPhone generations, boasting a 7.6-inch display — shrinking to 5.4 inches when closed.
Yet for some customers, the feature that allows you to open two applications side-by-side can only mean doom for us all.
‘Doom’ being the preferred word here, as of course this will inevitably lead to double doomscrolling.
“We are so cooked,” read one tweet accompanying a clip of the phone’s twin screen capability.
“Doomscroll reached its final level,” concurred somebody else, while a third X user wrote: “They telling use to get off the phones & internet, apple said nah go deeper.”
Bigging up the newly launched product this week, Apple CEO John Ternus said in a statement: “iPhone Duo is the most transformational change to iPhone since the original.
“With an entirely new design and intuitive experiences, it shows what’s possible when hardware and software are engineered together and redefines what it means to use a foldable phone.
“With the largest display ever on iPhone that still fits easily in your pocket, combined with the power of A20 Pro, iPhone Duo helps you stay more immersed and productive wherever you go, whether you’re enjoying content, multitasking across apps, or gaming.”
Behold, the first-ever foldable iPhone (Apple)
Another aspect of Apple’s arsenal of tech which seems to be disturbing fans is its ‘Audio Intelligence’ creation.
Scheduled to be rolled out with the Apple Watch Series 12 at a later date, this promises to provide ‘advanced health and fitness feature’ and might just come from the world of Black Mirror.
Apple describes Audio Intelligence as a way to ‘help users stay aware of the world around them, catch what they missed, and remember key moments – with user control, privacy, security, and accessibility at the centre of its design’.
Just like the older versions, the next Apple Watch has a built-in microphone, but Series 12’s will be put to work a lot more than past models.
This new generation of timepieces will be able to alert users who are deaf or hard of hearing of important sounds, such as sirens, alarms, doorbells, or a baby crying, by using on-device intelligence to notify users when they’re detected.
Pretty damn cool.
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