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Only when half-folded
Cards only move when the hinge is partly open. iOS 27.1 tells the app through UIHingeInteraction.
Press kit · Tasks 5.2 · October 13, 2026
Made for iPhone Duo.
I spent a week making Tasks feel right on a folding iPhone. Here's what I built, why, and everything you need to write about it.
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Folded, open, and in between.
The Duo is a 5.4-inch phone on the outside and a 7.6-inch screen on the inside. Tasks doesn't have a layout for each. It looks at how much room it has and works it out.
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The card goes where you're looking.
Half-fold the Duo like a book and a card in the middle of the screen sits right on the crease. Nobody wants to type over a crease. So in Tasks the card moves into the half facing you, and follows if you turn the Duo.
Try it
Turn the Duo.
Drag the slider and watch the card pick a side. It uses the same numbers as the app.
Held as you started. The card rests on the right.
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No flickering
It switches sides once you turn past 15°. Back within 8° of how you started, it sits on the right. In between, it stays put.
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Easy on the battery
Tasks only reads motion while a card is open.
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Off the crease
The card fills its half and stays at least 8 pt away from the fold.
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Folding doesn't lose your place.
It changes the layout and that's it.
Start typing folded, finish open.
The draft comes with you.
The column you were reading
Fold it and the outer screen opens right there.
Scroll position
Each column remembers where you were.
Where you left off
Quit, come back, and you're in the same project, tag, Smart List or person.
New tasks
They go into the project you opened last.
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Where your thumbs are.
Holding an open Duo, your thumbs sit on the sides and the bottom. So that's where the buttons went.
+ at the bottom
Easy to reach with a thumb. On iPad it stays top right.
Buttons on the edge
Toolbar buttons move into the bar down the side.
Columns side by side
All the same width, never narrower than 320 pt.
Sidebar when you want it
Hide it and the board gets the whole screen.
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The rules I set myself.
Most of the week went into deciding what Tasks shouldn't do on a Duo.
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Keep it an iPhone app.
Even open, the Duo gets the iPhone versions of screens. Only the quick-entry ones turn into cards.
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No Duo sizes in the code.
Layout comes from the size class and the split view, so nothing is tied to one device.
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Folding never touches your data.
It doesn't save, complete or delete anything. It only changes the layout.
How the week went.
- ResearchPostures, toolbars, and what has to survive a fold.
- Floating cardsFloat when it's open, dock when it's folded.
- Cards follow the hingeFit what's in them, dodge the keyboard, move to the half facing you.
- Corners and highlightsGetting both right in every posture.
- VoiceOverCards work with VoiceOver, and the Duo screenshots are automated.
- Tasks 5.2Shipped, ten days before the Duo goes on sale.
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The rest of 5.2.
AI assistants
Add an AI assistant to a project.
ChatGPT, Claude or Grok can join a project like a person would. Assign them tasks and mention them in comments. Revoke one and its tasks come back to you.
Bring your AI assistant into Tasks →
Natural language
Type tasks the way you'd say them.
I rewrote the parser from scratch. It picks out dates, repeats, places, priorities and tags as you type, in English, French, German and Spanish. All on device, in under a millisecond.
Settings
A new Settings.
Rebuilt into four groups with live previews, plus one switch to turn analytics off.
Import
Open .tasks files from anywhere.
Tap one in Files, Mail or AirDrop. Tasks shows you what's inside and asks before importing.
- Sturdier sync. A server hiccup won't sign you out anymore, and one rejected change won't hold up the rest.
- Timers everywhere. Apple Watch Smart Stack, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island and the Mac menu bar.
- Easier sharing. Invite links with roles, join limits and expiry.
- Small things. Paste images and PDFs, clone tasks with comments, reorder subtasks.
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Fact sheet.
- App
- Tasks (App Store: Tasks - To Do Lists & Reminder)
- Version
- 5.2, available now
- Developer
- Msquare Labs (Msquare Labs Technologies Private Limited), Mumbai, India
- Made by
- Mustafa Yusuf, indie developer
- First released
- 27 May 2020, with more than 400 updates since
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, and ready for iPhone Duo
- Requires
- iPhone: iOS 17.0 or later · iPad: iPadOS 17.0 or later · Mac: macOS 14.0 or later · Apple Watch: watchOS 10.0 or later · Apple Vision Pro: visionOS 1.0 or later
- Price
- Free download. Tasks Plus $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year or $59.99 once, every plan shareable with Family Sharing (United States prices)
- Rating
- 4.8 out of 5 from 9,000+ ratings, App Store worldwide
- Recognition
- App of the Day on the App Store, featured in the App Store's "See what's new in iOS 27" story and the Powered by Apple Intelligence collection, and covered by 9to5Mac, MacStories and TechCrunch
- Links
- App Store · Release story · Release notes · About Tasks
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Press assets.
All real screenshots from the app, as full-size transparent PNGs in both Duo colours. Use them however you like when you write about Tasks.
iPhone Duo
Folded and unfolded
The Work board on the outer and inner displays.
Half-folded
The same board with the Duo partly folded.
Create Task, half-folded
The card moves into the half facing you.
A task beside the board
Launch the new website, with the board in view.
Collaboration
People and AI assistants join a project here.
Settings beside the sidebar
The rebuilt Settings in the detail column.
Sidebar and board
Smart Lists, projects and tags beside Home.
The whole board
Planned, Active and Completed side by side.
Home board
A family's chores across three columns.
Sidebar open
The Work project selected and expanded.
Create Task, unfolded
The card floats near the top of the board.
Folded
Home, Work and Create Task on the outer display.
Folded, one column
The Work board, one column at a time.
Create Task, folded
Docked at the bottom, right by your thumb.
iPhone, video and brand
AI assistants
Connected, assigned a task, and revoked.
Type it the way you'd say it
A repeat, a date and a place, offered as you type.
Tags and projects as you type
# for a tag, / for a project.
The new Settings
Four groups, a note from the developer and the analytics switch.
Open a .tasks file
Tasks asks before importing anything.
Video: left and right
The card following the tilt, half-folded.
Video: your place, kept
Each fold lands on the column you were reading.
App icon
The rainbow checkmark, on white.
