iPhone Duo’s coolest software trick recreated on Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 in a few hours

Apple’s first foldable only just got announced, and one of its coolest little software tricks has already shown up on a Samsung.

People have been pretty positive about the iPhone Duo so far, especially the way iOS 27 handles the dual-screen setup. The detail that stood out the most is this smooth transition animation when you open or close the phone. As the device folds, the wallpaper kind of dissolves and looks like it’s sliding through the moving half of the screen before popping up on the other side. It’s a clever visual trick that uses motion data and gradients so it doesn’t just feel like a hard cut between displays.

A Galaxy Z Fold 8 owner on Reddit (moomanjohnny) saw it and got a bit of FOMO. He posted that after watching Apple’s demo he poked around and realised the Fold 8 also has a really accurate hinge sensor. From there it was pretty straightforward: grab the hinge sensor values and use them to drive a similar transition on both screens.

The result looks surprisingly close. The half of the display that’s opening or closing goes semi-transparent so you can see the content underneath, just like the iPhone version. Same idea: sensors plus visual tricks, not actual see-through screens.

It’s still just a proof-of-concept, not a real system feature. The guy used home-screen screenshots, some shaders, and the hinge-angle data Android already makes available. Samsung doesn’t currently let third-party apps dig deep enough into the system to make this a native One UI thing. Even so, the Reddit crowd was impressed by how quickly someone pulled it off.

Apple’s version looks polished, but the almost-instant Android recreation (although just a proof-of-concept) shows the hardware side is already capable of doing something very similar, if the brand ever decides to build it in themselves.

And it’s not even the first time this has happened. Apple’s Dynamic Island inspired a bunch of Android brands in different ways, and the more recent “Liquid Glass” look is also showing up on Android skins. Nothing’s confirmed or even rumored yet, but seeing this new transition animation land on Android wouldn’t be surprising at all, especially since a Redditor already proved it’s possible.

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