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Leak Reveals Five Unannounced StandBy Views for iPhone Duo Ahead of October 23 Launch

Code found in Apple software points to five StandBy mode views for the iPhone Duo that Apple has not announced, according to 9to5Mac, ahead of the device's October 23 release.

The five unannounced views are Home Camera, Home Modular, Flow, Fade and Snoopy, according to pdfu's thread on X. Home Camera and Home Modular are smart home options: the first shows a single camera feed, while the second supports a grid of camera feeds or a set of user-configured smart home controls. pdfu believes Flow will display responsive art of some kind. No details have emerged about Fade, though it may work in a similar way to Flow. The Snoopy view is expected to resemble Apple's tvOS screensaver.

Those additions join the StandBy views Apple has already shown: Analog, Digital, Classic Calendar, Weather, Photos, Memories, Shared Albums and Modular.

Apple demonstrated several StandBy examples when it unveiled the iPhone Duo earlier in September, but did not mention the five views the code reportedly contains. 9to5Mac describes the iPhone Duo as the most versatile iPhone yet, attributing that partly to its two displays and partly to special modes that become available in different setups. The phone can be used folded or unfolded, in landscape or portrait orientation, and in what the report calls "seated" or "standing" configurations. Standing is a suitable setup for watching video, and it also enables the additional StandBy features. Unlike earlier iPhones, the iPhone Duo can run StandBy mode even when it is not charging.

The same thread also describes how the customization screen for several StandBy views will work, according to 9to5Mac. The report did not describe the appearance of the Fade view in detail, and pdfu's account of Flow was presented as an interpretation of the code rather than confirmed documentation.

The leaked features concern software that runs in a specific physical configuration, rather than hardware specifications or pricing, which Apple has not disclosed beyond the October 23 date. Because the views were found in code rather than announced by Apple, they could change or be held back before the phone reaches customers. 9to5Mac framed the StandBy additions as part of the two-display phone's software feature set, alongside the existing weather, photo, calendar and analog clock views.