iPhone Duo widgets and quotes in Quill

What Quill does on iPhone Duo

Quill supports iPhone Duo on both the outer and the inner screen, and its layouts adapt to whichever one you're using. For you, that mostly affects how a line reads, and it's the one thing we can describe with confidence.

We've left hardware numbers off this page. Apple publishes the specifications, and they aren't ours to restate. We've also avoided describing how widgets are arranged per screen setup, since that's for Apple's documentation to explain, and it's easy to get wrong.

Why a wider screen doesn't mean a wider line

A common mistake when an app moves to a bigger screen is letting text run the full width. A sentence that looks right on a narrow phone becomes one long strip on a wide one, and your eye has to travel a long way and then find its way back. Typographers call the comfortable width of a line of text its measure, and book pages have been set around it for a very long time.

So on the inner screen, Quill keeps a readable measure for the line. The space around it grows and the line stays at a comfortable width, so it still reads like a sentence and doesn't turn into a long caption.

The same thinking applies in landscape, where a phone also gets wider than it is tall.

How the rest of Quill works on it

It's the same app on iPhone Duo as on any other iPhone, with the same Free and Pro limits. These are the parts most worth trying on a bigger screen, or any screen.

• Read in Context, which opens the passage around a historic line, and is a good thing to have room for
• Slow Read, which reveals a passage across a day
• My Lines, for writing and keeping your own
• Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets, with a category and frequency for each widget

Where it helps most

Lock Screen lines were written to fit in about three rows, at 62 characters or fewer, and a bigger screen doesn't change what makes a short line good.

The inner screen earns its keep when you read further. If a line from Marcus Aurelius catches you on the Lock Screen, the passage around it runs to several sentences and benefits from that readable width. It's closer to reading a page of a book. That's the part of Quill we'd suggest trying first on a Duo: tap a historic line, open Read in Context, and read on for a minute.

What we'll update here

iPhone Duo is new, and we're being careful about what we claim. When we can say more about how Quill's widgets behave across the two screens, we'll add it here. For how widgets generally get added, the Lock Screen guide has the steps for iPhone.