The iPhone in your drawer. Make it your quiet second phone.
Six apps: messages, maps, music, the camera. No App Store, no browser. With iOS 27 your number can move to it.
Download Tinyphone for Mac Read the two-phone guide
- Free for one phone. Any iPhone on iOS 18 or newer.
- Plug it into your Mac and pick the apps.
- Move your number with iPhone Handoff, where your carrier supports it.
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Why second phones fail
The dumbphone had its own number, so half your calls went to a phone at home, or you moved a SIM every morning. The iPhone always came back. The number was the problem, not the willpower.
Your number comes along
iOS 27 adds iPhone Handoff: your number lives on both phones and moves to whichever one you hand it to. Weekend phone in the pocket, full phone in the drawer, and you are still reachable.
Really just six apps
Handoff moves the number, not the apps. The companion is a full iPhone with the store on it. Tinyphone is the part that makes it minimal: real supervision, set up once from your Mac.
What it can't do
- Handoff needs your carrier to support it; T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom are expected first. It needs iOS 27 and eSIM on both phones
- Until your carrier is on, a second line or a data-only eSIM does the job; the guide covers both
- Setting it up erases the old phone one time; back it up first if anything on it matters