Here is my prediction for the name of Apple’s foldable iPhone.

We are (roughly) in the 20th year of the iPhone. At year ten, Apple introduced the iPhone X, a real break from the past with a new design and a new way of interacting with the device.

Now it has been another ten years. (Not really, but they skipped the iPhone 9 to call it X, so they obviously don't care about precision.)

X is the Roman numeral for ten. XX is twenty. A foldable iPhone has two displays.

iPhone 2X

Twenty years (XX). Two screens (2x).

You heard it here first.

Apple nonchalantly released iOS 18 with a new feature that’s about to change the lives of a huge part of the population. Vehicle Motion Cues is an accessibility feature that’s on by default and activates when your iPhone detects a moving vehicle around you.

It works by layering a bunch of animated dots on top of the content you’re looking at. When the device detects changes in the vehicle’s motion, it animates the dots accordingly, tricking your brain into thinking everything is fine instead of making you feel like you need to puke because the real-life physics engine stopped working.

I’ve struggled with motion sickness and haven’t read a book in a car or bus in 29 years. I didn’t find it very convincing that showing little circles on top of everything else would help, but yesterday, I spent 24 minutes on a bus, reading a whole chapter, and I was completely fine.

That never happened before.

Vehicle Motion Cues works, and it literally changed my life.