Apple is working on a split-screen app landscape feature for iOS 27, according to a known leaker.
In a new Weibo post, the leaker known as “Fixed Focus Digital” said Apple is developing a “Parallel View” feature for iOS, aiming to address the platform’s long-standing weakness with widescreen and landscape layouts. Parallel View is a feature in Huawei’s HarmonyOS that automatically adapts smartphone apps to widescreen displays at the system level, without requiring developers to redesign their apps.
Fixed Focus Digital appears to be using the term as a reference point for the type of solution Apple is seeking, rather than suggesting that Apple is directly replicating Huawei’s implementation. The leaker highlighted iPadOS as Apple’s existing example of an approach, noting that Apple already handles system-level landscape adaptation on the iPad. iOS has never had an equivalent mechanism.
This feature appears to be aimed directly at the foldable iPhone, whose 7.8-inch interior screen will expose a fundamental limitation of iOS: Virtually all iPhone apps are designed for a tall, narrow screen. Without a system-level solution, these apps would appear letterboxed on a larger screen. Fixed Focus Digital acknowledged that iOS is “indeed excellent” while noting that its adaptation to the big screen has always failed.
This assertion corroborates previous reports of BloombergMark Gurman, who reported in March that ‌iOS 27‌ would support two apps side-by-side on the foldable iPhone’s interior screen, with an iPad-like layout and navigation bars on the left side within supported apps.
Apple is expected to unveil ‌iOS 27‌ at WWDC 2026 later this month, ahead of a fall release alongside the iPhone 18 Pro models and the foldable iPhone.
