Google Maps has caught up with the iPhone Duo. Version 26.44.4 of the app fills both of the phone’s screens, so the map no longer sits inside one panel while the other stays blank or mirrored. The update is out now, and the change is visible the moment the app opens on the inner display.
The new layout puts the menus and search on one side and lets the map run corner to corner across the rest. Street View gets the same treatment: the street-level image sits on one side while the map stays live on the other, instead of the two fighting for a single panel. It is the layout a two-screen phone always implied, and it arrives about two weeks after the Duo went on sale on 23 October.
Google has said nothing about the change in the App Store notes, which list only bug fixes. The previous build, 26.43.1, had partly adapted the app to the Duo’s shape without filling both screens; 26.44.4 completes the job. There is no new feature to switch on and no setting to change — the wide layout is simply how the app now behaves on the Duo’s inner display.
The Duo remains the only phone in Apple’s line-up with this shape, so the update matters to a small audience for now. But it sets a pattern worth watching: the first wave of Duo-compatible apps arrived slowly after launch, and Maps is the most-used one to make the jump. Navigation, search and Street View are the three things people open Maps for, and all three now use the full width of the device.
Featured image: iPhone Duo — Image: Apple. Source: Google Maps 26.44.4 on the App Store; GSMArena (update report, 5 November 2026).
