Find My Gets Landscape Mode, Hinting at Apple’s Foldable Plans
What You Need to Know
- Find My app gains landscape mode support in iOS 27, potentially preparing infrastructure for rumored foldable iPhone.
- Users can now share location for custom durations between 15 minutes and 30 days with precise time control.
- New “Hide Location” option pauses location sharing with specific contacts until end of day without sending notifications.
The most underreported angle in this source is that landscape mode expansion in Find My may be foreshadowing the rumored foldable iPhone Ultra, not just a cosmetic update. That’s the thread worth pulling.
Apple’s Find My app is getting three changes in iOS 27, and the least glamorous of them might be the most telling. Landscape mode support, quietly added alongside a handful of more headline-friendly features, could be early infrastructure work for a foldable iPhone that Apple has not officially acknowledged.
The foldable angle matters because landscape-friendly apps would suit a device that spends meaningful time in a horizontal orientation. Landscape mode already existed in Maps, Calendar, Files, Notes, and Mail on iOS 26. iOS 27 expands it to many more built-in apps, Find My included. To activate it, Portrait Orientation Lock must be off in Control Center and the phone turned sideways.
The two remaining changes are more immediately practical. Find My now lets users share their location for a custom duration anywhere between 15 minutes and 30 days, with precise control over days, hours, and minutes, or a specific expiry date and time. On iOS 26, the only options were indefinitely, until end of day, or one hour.
A quieter kind of control
The other addition is a “Hide Location” option that pauses location sharing with a specific person until the end of the day, with no notification sent to that person. Apple’s stated use case is surprise parties. Whether users will find other reasons to reach for it is a separate question, though what the other person can and cannot see has always been murkier than most people assume.
iOS 27 is in developer beta now, with a public beta expected in July and a general release in September. That timeline puts it on the standard annual schedule, and the current software cycle is already moving toward its close. Three Find My updates may not sound like much, but the landscape mode addition suggests Apple is building toward something it has not announced yet.
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