Kid Cue on iPhone Duo uses the outer display to play an animation that can help get a child or pet to look toward the camera while you take a photo or record a video.
The feature is designed around iPhone Duo’s foldable hardware. With the phone open and its rear cameras pointed at your subject, the animation appears on the outer display where the person or animal being photographed can see it.
Kid Cue can be useful for group photos, portraits of children and pet photography where getting the subject to look toward the lens at the right moment is often the hardest part.
An animation will begin playing on the outer display to attract your subject’s attention toward the phone.
Once Kid Cue is running, frame your subject using the inner display and wait for them to look toward the animation. Tap the Shutter button to take a photo or the Record button to begin recording video.
You can also use either volume button or click Camera Control to capture the shot, which can make it easier to keep iPhone Duo steady while the outer display is facing your subject.
Yes. Apple supports Kid Cue while taking still photos and while recording video, so the outer-display animation can be used in either mode.
Kid Cue does not change the camera itself or automatically take the picture. Its job is to use iPhone Duo’s second display as an attention cue, giving children and pets something on the phone to look at while you control the camera from the inner screen.
Apple explains the feature in the iPhone User Guide. The feature is one of several camera experiences built around the foldable design, alongside Smart Take and outer-display camera previews.
For more on those features and the rest of the device, The Apple Post’s complete iPhone Duo guide covers the cameras, displays, iOS 27.1 features and more.