Apple's first MacBook with a touch display adapts macOS 27 for fingers, with bigger buttons and trackpad gestures on the screen.
Apple has unveiled a new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR, its first MacBook with a touch display. Alongside it, Apple made changes to macOS 27, called Golden Gate, so the Mac is easier to use with a finger and not only a mouse or trackpad.
Tapping the red, yellow and green window buttons in the top left of an app makes them grow, so they are easier to hit. Menu items in context menus also get a little larger. Many optimized apps have bigger touch areas, even when the buttons look the same.
Two changes reach every Mac running macOS 27: pull to refresh in Safari and slightly wider spacing between menu bar items.
The material does not say what the new MacBook Pro costs or when it ships. Apple also says more touch features are coming to the Mac. 9to5Mac expects to see them at the next WWDC, Apple's yearly developer event. For now, touch is a first step, not a finished design.
If you are weighing a Mac purchase, touch has arrived on the MacBook Pro, but Apple says more touch features are still to come.
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