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Apple folds Wi-Fi, cellular, and battery into one icon on iPhone Duo cover screen

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Apple's upcoming iPhone Duo features a redesigned status bar that combines the three classic indicators — Wi-Fi, battery, and cellular — into a single small circle on its compact 5.4-inch cover screen. The design layers three visually distinct shapes: a continuous arc for battery, a fan symbol for Wi-Fi, and a row of dots for signal strength, allowing the eye to separate them despite sharing space. Critics have raised readability concerns, particularly in low-signal states where all three elements weaken simultaneously, making it harder to identify which connection is failing. Notably, the combined icon appears only on the cover screen; unfolding the phone restores the traditional three separate icons in iOS 27, and Control Center displays them individually as well. Apple's decision to limit the consolidated icon to a specific hardware constraint — rather than adopting it universally — has been highlighted as the more significant design choice.

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