Can a multi-billion dollar company no longer have any secrets?
Everyone knows that Apple is working on creating a foldable phone. Perhaps the company hasn’t given any official word on the project, but we’ve had several signals about it, like the experimental iPhone Air that debuted last year. But today’s inaugural beta of the new iOS 27 also contained a few dead giveaways.
Sam Henri Gold spotted the latest indications that a foldable is in the works in iOS 27 frameworks. The documentation contains references to terms like “foldState” and “angleDegrees” as well as the language for the total number of integrated screens on the host device. Each of these indicates that the operating system is used on a foldable smartphone rather than a traditional single-screen smartphone. 9to5Mac confirmed the existence of these references in iOS 27 and that they were not present in iOS 26.
iOS 27 framework refers to “foldState” and “angleDegrees” but I’m sure that’s nothing pic.twitter.com/PcYNVvymms
– Sam Henri Gold (@samhenrigold) June 8, 2026
Further intrigue came from Apple’s own developer, State of the Union, where the company said it was adding support for resizing iPhone apps in the mirroring feature of macOS and on iPad. This seems useful for iPad and Mac users, but it certainly seems like a prelude to the introduction of an iPhone with a new form factor.
In Apple’s defense, it’s hard to hide something once people know what they’re looking for. Between the presence of many other foldables already on the market and the level of detail that developers have access to on new operating systems, it would be quite difficult to hide this kind of prep work for a new form factor. Especially since we expect the iPhone Fold could be announced this fall, meaning it would run iOS 27.
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