Here’s how macOS is changing for touchscreens
Touchscreen laptops are nothing new in the Windows world, but Apple has only just announced its first MacBook with a touchscreen. Apple isn't rushing to change a bunch of things in macOS to optimize for touch, though; most of the touch action will be in the apps themselves, it seems.
As far as major macOS changes go, iOS's Dynamic Island will be debuting on the new MacBook Pro, and Apple touts the added touch controls as particularly useful for interacting with the interface to accept AirDrops and pause music playback. Otherwise, Apple gives some pretty predictable ways that the touch input will work with the new MacBook Pro. You'll be able …
Apple ‘Pro and Tell’ event: everything announced this week
Apple closed out its week of product announcements with a "Pro and Tell" event on Wednesday, where it took the wraps off its long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Though Apple may have saved its biggest and most exciting update for last, it revealed a few other device upgrades and updates in the days leading up to its big reveal. We've rounded them all up here.
A MacBook Pro with a touchscreen
Apple CEO John Ternus revealed the company's first MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, allowing you to perform gestures on your screen like scrolling, swiping, and pinching. The company says the touch sensor is "built directly into the display panel," no …
Watch Apple’s reveal video for the touchscreen MacBook Pro
Apple just announced its first touchscreen MacBook at its "Pro and tell" event on Wednesday. It showed off the long-awaited touchscreen in a video of the new MacBook Pro during the event that you can watch right here to see the new display in action.
The new MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR touch display is a tandem OLED panel with up to 2,000 nits of brightness and a 120Hz refresh rate. It features a hole punch for the webcam, rather than a notch. Apple says the new laptop weighs as little as 3 pounds. It also brings back the glowing Apple logo on its lid, which Apple CEO John Ternus teased in a video on X.
Pre-orders for the touchscreen MacBook …
Hands-on with Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro
Steve Jobs famously called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible," and for over a decade, Apple stridently refused to make one. Today that all changes with the MacBook Pro - the company's first laptop to embrace a touch interface. While it's unlikely that Apple can fix all the "terrible" ergonomics of having to lift your arm up and touch a laptop screen, the company has put some effort into making macOS more touch-friendly.
The new 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display weighs just 3 pounds, which is noticeably lighter than the current generation of non-touch MacBook Pros, which start at 3.4 pounds for the newly introduced M6 mo …
Here’s where you can preorder the new OLED-equipped iPad Mini
Apple's smallest tablet is getting a bigger screen. Earlier this week, the company announced the eighth-generation iPad Mini alongside several new MacBook Pro models, bringing OLED technology to Apple's miniature tablet for the first time. The diminutive slate won't hit shelves until November 6th; however, you can already preorder it from Amazon, Walmart, Apple, and other retailers in multiple colors starting at $699.
The forthcoming iPad Mini features an 8.5-inch OLED display, the largest screen the Mini has ever had, despite being both thinner and lighter than its 2024 predecessor. It also runs on Apple's new A20 Pro chip, which sho …
Instagram doesn’t have a plan to pay long-form video creators
Instagram is testing long-form videos (again) to lure in creatives from YouTube, but the platform hasn't figured out how (or if) it'll actually pay them. After Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced Features on Monday, creators immediately started voicing their complaints on Threads and Reddit about the lack of monetization opportunities, compared to the ad share and performance-based incentives provided by YouTube.
Mosseri addressed the monetization concerns in a Threads post yesterday, saying "We understand the economics matter a ton, and are exploring multiple options to help long-form creators get paid." It's anyone's guess what those so …
Apple announces its first touchscreen MacBook Pro
Apple announced an all-new MacBook Pro laptop with an OLED touchscreen at its "Pro and tell" event on Wednesday. It starts at $2,899 for the 14-inch model, or $3,399 for the 16-inch version, and it's available to preorder today ahead of its release on November 6th.
The new MacBook Pro has what Apple calls a "PROLED XDR" display, which is a tandem OLED screen. It offers up to 2,000 nits of peak SDR brightness, up to a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio. It's equipped with M5 Pro or M5 Max chips - not the M6 chip on the other MacBook Pros announced this week. There's a Dynamic Island on the screen that can show you things …
Chrome’s enhanced autofill can now pull info from Gmail to help you fill out forms
Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number, email address, and physical addresses sourced from your Google Accounts and services like Google Wallet, the feature is now expanding. Starting today, Chrome's enhanced autofill will use Gemini with Personal Intelligence to suggest information sourced from your Gmail, potentially saving you from having to search for confirmation emails, receipts, or shipping updates yourself.
The expanded autofill capabilities can retrieve details such as a shipment's tracking number, travel details like a flight booking number or hotel reservation, …
Touchscreen MacBook live blog: On the ground at Apple’s launch event
Apple has already had a busy week. On Monday, it announced a new iPad Mini with an upgraded OLED display, and on Tuesday, we got M6 chip upgrades for the MacBook Pro and iMac. The Macs are the definition of iterative updates - they're quiet refreshes that look just like their direct predecessors. But today should be a whole lot more interesting.
At an event in Los Angeles, Apple is expected to debut a revamped MacBook Pro with a touchscreen display. This would be the first touchscreen on a Mac (not counting the beleaguered Touch Bar). Touchscreen laptops are something Apple executives have criticized for about as long as the iPad has existe …
All the news from Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ event
Apple’s “Pro and tell” event kicks off at 1PM ET / 10AM PT on October 28th. The event comes just a couple of weeks after Apple debuted the HomeView, its first smart display, and a little over a month after it announced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable. Its next event could feature yet another first for Apple: a MacBook with a touchscreen.
A few devices received updates in the days leading up to the event. Apple announced an updated iPad Mini with a larger OLED display on Monday. The iMac and entry-level MacBook Pro were refreshed with M6 chips on Tuesday. Both are likely to pop up at Wednesday’s event, but their early announcement clears the way for a touchscreen MacBook to be the star of the show.
This event will also continue a streak of product launches at Apple since John Ternus took over as its CEO on September 1st. So far, the flurry of new devices has also included the iPhone 18 Pro, new Apple Watches, the AirPods 5, and the HomePod Mini 2.
Follow along here for all the latest news and updates.
- Here’s how macOS is changing for touchscreens
- Apple’s polishing cloth adds critical support for the new touchscreen MacBook Pro.
- Apple ‘Pro and Tell’ event: everything announced this week
- Watch Apple’s reveal video for the touchscreen MacBook Pro
- Hands-on with Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro
- Apple announces its first touchscreen MacBook Pro
- Touchscreen MacBook live blog: On the ground at Apple’s launch event
- Apple refreshes the iMac with M6 chips
- Apple updates the MacBook Pro with M6 chips
- Apple’s Greg Joswiak teases an ‘exciting week.’
- What to expect from Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ event
- Apple teases MacBook Pro event next week