The Canada Brief

Tech · 9 d ago

Illustration of a foldable phone, half open

Apple weighs a Safari fix for the iPhone Duo's cramped outer screen

Safari 27.1 limits web pages to the area beside the side-mounted controls and fills the rest of the strip with the page's background colour.

The web setting

viewport-fit=cover

Apple's Jen Simmons wrote on Oct 23 that this setting lets pages use that space, but many sites would not leave room around key content.

iFixit repairability score

5/10 repairability

Separately, iFixit's teardown gave the phone a 5 out of 10 for repairability, its best score yet for a foldable.

iFixit suspects part of the complex hinge sometimes does not descend properly, which may concentrate pressure on the screen.