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Apple separated iOS and iPadOS. I wonder how they deal for Foldable "phone" (or say mini tablet) situation.

• filoleg 3y ago
  I use both iOS and iPadOS, and from my experience, it feels like iPadOS is just a superset of iOS features. Thinking about things like multi-window controls, pencil support, etc. The only thing I can think of that iOS has that iPadOS doesn’t is the phone app (but i use the non-cellular version of iPad, so that might be a null point too). I might be wrong, so please someone correct me on this if that’s the case. With this in mind, I can imagine them just sort of “downgrading” this foldable iPad to iOS mode when folded, and “expanding” to iPadOS feature superset mode when unfolded. Makes perfect sense on a UX level to me. That, however, would involve essentially merging the two OSs (as literally switching between two different OSs, even if it was a smooth switch happening instantly, feels like an extremely janky and awful solution), and I am not sure how feasible it is on a technical level at this point.