iPhone Duo Leak Turns StandBy Into a Home Display

Software researcher pdfu found five new faces for iPhone Duo StandBy in Apple’s iOS 27.1 simulator on September 28. The names are Home Camera, Home Modular, Flow, Fade, and Snoopy.

Apple already said StandBy on the foldable can run without a charger, and the phone goes on sale with availability beginning Friday, October 23. The five faces never appeared in that pitch, and the app meant to host them is still absent from the simulator.

Five Unannounced Faces in the iOS 27.1 Simulator

pdfu (@itspdfu) wrote that Rushmore, the app meant to host the redesigned faces, is missing from the iOS 27.1 simulator. Language strings still list the extra faces, and he got some of them running in the current StandBy engine.

Apple’s public StandBy set for iPhone Duo is narrower. The company showed Clock and Modular faces, added Calendar and Weather, and updated Photos so Shared Albums can appear. pdfu then ran Analog Clock, Digital Clock, and Classic Calendar as the faces that already work. The five extra names sit beside that group, not inside it.

THE FIVE FACES IN APPLE’S CODE

A string in a simulator is not a shipping promise. pdfu said none of the five is locked for launch, and Rushmore’s absence is the caution, not a footnote.

Code reveals five more StandBy faces for iPhone Duo:
• Home Camera: Single camera view or a grid of up to nine.
• Home Modular: Perhaps a Home accessory-focused Modular.
• Flow (ResponsiveArt): Possibly an animated, abstract face.
• Fade: No design details.
• Snoopy pic.twitter.com/vYg6tD4AHb

— pdfu (@itspdfu) September 28, 2026

StandBy Now Works Without a Charger

That is the hardware change the new faces actually need. On every earlier iPhone, StandBy was a charging trick. You locked the phone, turned it on its side, kept it still, and plugged it in. Apple’s own guide still describes that older rule as viewing information at a distance while iPhone is charging.

iPhone Duo breaks the plug. Apple’s product page says you can use StandBy just about anywhere, even when you aren’t charging iPhone Duo. Set it down on the inner or outer display and it becomes a clock, a photo frame, or a board for weather, calendar, and widgets. The hinge is what makes that plausible: the phone can stand in a tent pose, sit like a book, or rest closed on the 5.4-inch outer screen.

HOW STANDBY GOT OFF THE CHARGER

1. 2023: StandBy arrives with iOS 17 as a side-on clock and widget board that only appears while charging.
2. September 9, 2026: Apple unveils iPhone Duo and says StandBy now starts when you set the phone down, charger or not.
3. September 28, 2026: pdfu publishes the five extra faces and the Watch-like editor from iOS 27.1 strings.
4. September 29, 2026: The same researcher notes that Xcode 27.2 beta 2 drops Table Mode, the simulator switch used to reach StandBy.
5. October 16, 2026: Pre-orders open at 5 a.m. PT.
6. October 23, 2026: iPhone Duo goes on sale in more than 70 countries and regions; 28 more follow on October 30.

Apple has not said how long off-charger StandBy lasts on the dual-battery pack. A nightstand clock that needs a cable is a known bargain. A nightstand clock that slowly empties a $1,999 foldable is a different one, and the company left that number out of the launch copy.

Nine Camera Feeds on the Inner Display

Home Camera is the face that stops reading like a clock. pdfu’s notes say it can show a single camera view or a grid of up to nine feeds. Parked on a desk, the inner 7.6-inch panel is 50 percent larger than iPhone 18 Pro Max, which is enough glass for a 3-by-3 tile of doorbells, driveways, and cribs. The outer 5.4-inch panel still covers 90 percent of the screen area of iPhone 18 Pro, so a one-feed view can live on the closed phone too.

THE DISPLAY THE FACES FILL

• Inner canvas: 7.6-inch Super Retina XDR, Always On, the panel Apple calls the largest iPhone display.
• Outer canvas: 5.4-inch Super Retina XDR, same aspect ratio, so a face can scale instead of being rebuilt.
• Starting price: $1,999, in Star White or Night Sky.
• Home Camera cap: one feed, or a grid of up to nine.

Home Modular is thinner in the dump. pdfu called it perhaps a Home accessory-focused Modular, a board of buttons rather than a clock with a camera stuffed in a corner. Read together, the two Home faces are a monitoring wall and a control wall. That is the job of a kitchen display, and it is why a nine-tile camera sheet on a nightstand feels useful and a bit invasive in the same glance. The phone already has the sensors, the Home app, and a screen that no longer goes black when you pull the cable.

Apple has not said which cameras, permissions, or HomeKit Secure Video rules the grid would obey. Until that lands in Settings, Home Camera is a label with a layout, not a product you can trust with a baby monitor.

Copying the Apple Watch Face Editor

The editor is the other half of the leak, and it is further along than Fade. pdfu recorded a setup sheet that matches the Apple Watch face editor: swipe between settings, then scroll the options. He got three faces running well enough to list their knobs.

Here’s the new face editor. Its design closely matches the Apple Watch face editor. You can swipe between settings, then scroll through available options.

pdfu, software researcher, on X

Analog Clock offers style, color, and two widget slots, plus numeral sets he listed as Arabic, Western / Arabic, Eastern / Devanagari. Digital Clock offers font, color, and three widget slots. Classic Calendar offers style, font, and color, with one widget slot in the Date style. The Duo simulator had no widget registry, so he could not try alternate widgets. That gap is in the test bench, not a claim that widgets are gone.

FIVE DIGITAL CLOCK LAYOUTS

• StandBy: the current, single-screen clock layout.
• Stacked: a vertical stack, likely for a book-open pose.
• Top: content pinned high on the inner display.
• Middle: content centered on the fold.
• Bottom: content dropped to the lower half.

pdfu wrote that the last four may be meant for the two-page Book setup in the new Rushmore engine. Tent-stand a Duo and a centered clock sits in the crease. Open it flat like a book and Top or Bottom keeps the time on the half you can see from a pillow. The editor is not a theme picker. It is how Apple treats a tabletop screen that changes shape.

What Flow, Fade, and Snoopy Still Lack

Flow, Fade, and Snoopy are the three names with the least product under them. Flow is tagged ResponsiveArt in the code, which pdfu read as an animated or abstract face that can change while the phone sits. Fade is a name with no design notes at all. Either could be a calm night mode, a motion wallpaper, or a leftover string. The dump does not say.

Snoopy is the one readers already know from other Apple screens. The character face shipped on Apple Watch with watchOS 10 in 2023. Apple TV added a Snoopy screen saver in tvOS 18.2 on December 11, 2024, with Woodstock in tow. iPhone Duo already uses the same license in hardware Apple did announce: Kid Cue plays Peanuts animations on the outer display to pull a child’s eyes toward the camera. A Snoopy StandBy face would extend that, not start it. pdfu still logged no layout, no animation list, and no proof it is on the October 23 image.

These three are the easiest to cut if Rushmore slips. They are also the ones that make StandBy feel like a room object, a screen that is meant to be stared at from across a table rather than glanced at between unlocks.

Could These Faces Land on a Home Hub

pdfu asked the question the keynote left open. In a follow-up on September 28, he wondered whether Apple would reuse the new StandBy renderer for upcoming Home products, and whether that is why the five faces stayed off the stage.

Could we see Apple reuse the new StandBy renderer for iPhone Duo in their upcoming Home products? Might explain why they haven’t previewed these five faces: Home Camera, Home Modular, Flow, Fade, Snoopy.

pdfu, software researcher, on X

Analyst Mark Gurman has described a tabletop home display with widgets and clock faces, still unconfirmed by Apple, with a possible window as soon as October. Apple has announced none of that hardware. What it has announced is a foldable that already enters StandBy when you set it down, on either screen, with no cable. The leaked Home faces are the software that would make that pose a camera wall. The Watch-style editor is the software that would make it feel like a device you leave in a room.

WHAT WE KNOW

• The strings: Home Camera, Home Modular, Flow, Fade, and Snoopy are in iOS 27.1 localization files.
• The grid: Home Camera is described as one feed or up to nine.
• The editor: Analog, Digital, and Classic Calendar already expose Watch-like options in the current engine.
• The charger rule: Apple, not the leak, says Duo StandBy works without power.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• Ship date: none of the five faces is confirmed for October 23.
• Rushmore: the host app is missing from the 27.1 simulator, and Table Mode was stripped in the 27.2 beta 2 tools.
• Home rules: camera types, permissions, and battery life for off-charger StandBy are unpublished.
• A separate hub: Apple has not confirmed a home display that would reuse this renderer.

Pre-orders open October 16. The phone that arrives a week later will stand up on a table and show a clock without a cable. Whether that clock can also be nine cameras, a Snoopy short, or a Home keypad is still a set of names in a simulator, sitting in an app Apple has not shipped.