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The launch of the iPhone Duo, Apple’s hotly anticipated foldable phone, is off to a rough start. The phone was announced at this year’s Surprise and Shine event, with Apple promising that it had finally gotten a notoriously tricky form factor right.

Over the weekend, a handful of iPhone Duo users reported that their inner display had cracked along the hinge. In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said it is “aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number of iPhone Duo units,” and that affected users can contact AppleCare for a replacement.

A new video demo shows that you can use the Shortcuts app to trigger automations on opening or closing the iPhone Duo.

It’s kind of wild that there’s an entire YouTube niche in which people buy the latest expensive gadgets and then find creative ways to destroy them. JerryRigEverything is one of the bigger names, and he didn’t hold back when it came to a destruction test of the iPhone Duo.

The Duo is the most repairable folding phone yet, but opening it up isn’t for the faint of heart.

In a press release published this morning, Apple is sharing pictures from the iPhone Duo launch around the world. 9to5Mac readers have also shared pictures from their local Apple Stores.

Apple’s efforts to reduce its reliance on Chinese supply chains have led to mass screen cracking issues across its first-generation foldable devices.

An Australian owner reported that the iPhone Duo’s inner display cracked along the fold after fewer than 20 openings, roughly six hours into owning the device. That account, reproduced by MacRumors from an owner report, is the sharpest early data point in a growing pattern of hinge-area complaints.

With the iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple has made some major changes to the camera hardware. For the first time, the company has introduced a variable aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro series, allowing the main camera to switch between f/1.48 and f/4.0.

Apple on Thursday released iOS 27.1, a software update available exclusively to owners of the iPhone Duo. The company said the update focuses on refinements specific to the Duo’s dual-display hardware and will not be offered for other iPhone models.