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iPhone Duo users are reporting on reddit that they can see the inside components when half folded 🫪
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I mean, Windows 10 came out 11 years ago and abandoned the Windows 8 approach you're criticizing.
More importantly, what exactly is Apple doing here that Windows 10/11 haven't already done conceptually?
The article praises Apple for keeping the familiar desktop UI while making elements more touch-friendly, adding touch gestures, increasing spacing between controls, and supporting things like pinch-to-zoom.
That's essentially the post-Windows 8 approach Microsoft has been using for years: keep the desktop, accommodate touch where useful, and dynamically adjust parts of the UI for touch input.
Windows 8 deserves plenty of criticism, but using it as the comparison in 2026 sidesteps 11 years of Windows development.
If there's something fundamentally new about Apple's approach here, I'm genuinely curious what it is.
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BREAKING: Claude Code found 14,219 photos of my face on my Android that I never took. Phone was secretly taking them almost every time I picked it up. Even when I was just lying in bed. Even at home.
Not screenshots. Real frames from the front camera. On the train. In the car. At home. When I just grabbed it to check the time.
They were just sitting in a system cache. Timestamps and GPS on them. Nothing in Gallery. Nothing in Recently Deleted.
Plugged the phone into my laptop, made a full backup, told Claude Code to look for any front-camera files that weren’t in my photos. It pulled /data/system/users/0/faceunlock/cache and another folder inside Google Play Services. Over 14 thousand files. Normal ones and infrared from Face Unlock. Every single one had time and location.
Started scrolling. Almost everything from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago. I was still looking at the folder. Phone kept taking photos while I was reading this.
Google and the phone makers say Face Unlock turns everything into a mathematical model and deletes the image right away. On this phone the raw frames were just sitting there. Some of the processes writing to that folder were from system diagnostics. Couple of old apps that still had camera permission could also get in.
Turned off diagnostics, revoked camera access from everything that doesn’t need it, cleared the cache. But how many of these frames already went somewhere else, I don’t know.
If you want to check yours, plug it in, make a full backup or use ADB, and ask Claude to look for front-camera files outside your Gallery. Path above is where mine were.
Claude Code found 145,763 photos I permanently deleted from my iPhone.
Three years of deleted photos and videos still sitting in a hidden cache. Any app with file access can read them.
I plugged my iPhone into my MacBook to run a backup. Claude Code was doing the security audit from my last post and flagged a directory I wasn't even looking for.
PhotoData/Thumbnails. Over 146,000 files. Photos, videos, screenshots. Every single one was something I deleted.
Photos from 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ones I deleted the second after taking them. The ones I cleared from Recently Deleted. The ones I deleted three separate times because I wanted to be sure they were gone. All still there.
Passport photo I took for a visa application in 2023.
Screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers visible.
Private photos I sent someone and immediately deleted after a breakup.
Screenshot of my crypto seed phrase I took temporarily in 2022.
Photo of my ID and credit card I took to remember the numbers and deleted 5 seconds later.
Screenshots of my ex's private Instagram stories I saved and permanently deleted in 2023.
Some were full resolution. All organized by date going back to 2021.
When you delete a photo on iPhone, iOS removes it from your camera roll and Recently Deleted. It keeps a compressed copy in a Spotlight search index cache so your phone can find things when you search. Apple never clears it. Not after 30 days. Not after a year. Never.
They told you it was permanently deleted. It wasn't.
I checked which apps on my phone had Files and Folders access. 23 apps. Weather apps. QR code scanners. PDF readers. A flashlight app I downloaded in 2022. Any one of them could have been reading every photo I ever deleted this entire time.
Went from 23 apps to 3 in about two minutes.
Full step by step below. Takes 2 minutes. Save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone with an iPhone.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video is an old, misappropriated clip from 2023, and the accompanying claims are fabricated.
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A benefit #Apple touts for positioning the "taskbar" on #iPhoneDuo's cover screen to the right margin is more vertical space on the short cover screen: 6 rows of 4 apps.
This sacrifices ~15% screen use & shifts content left.
@Samsungs #ZFold8 retains full display use and 😎👇:
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For those worried about colors on the iPhone Duo, here’s a video I showed off the inner screen with comic books 📚
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After a long day playing my fake iPhone Duo accordion, I like to unwind with a fake grilled cheese sandwich made on my fake Duo panini press and have a cold fake beer from my fake Duo fridge. Then listen to my fake Walkman and play a little fake soccer and fake Battleship. All on a very real $2,000 phone.
Influencers are raving because #Apple will replace the pre-installed cover layer of #iPhoneDuo's folding display for $19. #calmdown(@flossycarter voice)😄
This is simply Apple price-matching @Samsung's $19 replacement cost for the pre-installed screen protector of its Folds.
The difference is the additional function of Apple's use of a *matte* cover layer w/the purpose of hiding the crease.
Because the matte layer is leading the conversation about #iPhoneDuo's minimal crease, a $19 replacement cost to a "renew" that function over time resonates.
Worth noting is the matte "nano-texture" cover layer of #iPhoneDuo only *hides* the crease.
Physics is physics. With time & hundreds of folds the crease will inevitably worsen as with all foldables. A new cover layer will be less effective at hiding a worsening crease over time.
Hi Cale you may want to fix this. @panos_panay may not like being called a pansy😃#typos #autocorrect 😄@JezCorden @Daniel_Rubino @ceeceehaatch
Man I wish Panos was still @Microsoft leading @Surface making bold creative aspirational products #SurfaceDuo #SurfacePro #SurfaceBook
I just noticed just how much #iPhoneDuo looks like @Microsoft's #SurfaceDuo (2019) when Surface Duo(250grams) is in phone mode (completely folded over on its 360 degree hinge).
Notice the "D" shape shared by both devices that everyone's noticing about @Apple's device (254grams).
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2020, a crazy year
The new Surface Duo. There’s a new way to get things done. Available today: msft.it/6012TtMgr #DoOneBetter
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WTF!! A Reddit user already recreated the iPhone Duo animation on Galaxy Z Fold 8 🥵
Microsoft positioned the Surface Duo on its public product page as a Dual Screen Computer, postioning it as a pocketable computer that made calls.
#Apple may succeed in telling the story - positioning- its foladable "creating" a category of pocketable tablet. #Iphonefold
