Custom interfaces to get the most out of a folding iPhone or iPad are in the works

Folding devices with two screens have potential beyond just more display real estate. Apple is researching, at length, how to make the interfaces of folding iPhone, iPad, or all-screen MacBook Pro more than the sum of its parts.A folding device could have two screens where the bottom one acts as a 'soft keyboard'It's not as if it's a surprise that Apple has been researching an iPhone Fold, or a folding iPad. And of course it has had foldable laptops from the PowerBook 100 to today's MacBook Pro.Yet this newly-granted patent, called 'User Interfaces For Devices With Multiple Displays,' could even replace every one of those devices. Across 335 drawings and flowcharts, the patent ultimately describes a device that is made up of two screens, folded in the middle like a current MacBook Pro. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums