The Touchscreen MacBook Pro Will Have a Very iPhone-Like Screen, Report Says

Rumors of a touchscreen MacBook Pro have been circulating for over three years, and they have always kept customers full of questions. The first of them: “What in the world will that user experience be like?” According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the obvious answer is that it will…something go wrong? But certainly full of new possibilities! And yes, it feels like that Desire Be like an iPhone with a keyboard – OLED screen, dynamic island, and everything. But only if you want to.

At any rate, Gurman’s anonymous sources actually say that a touchscreen MacBook Pro is coming later this year. Just don’t expect it to be announced at the next big Apple event. It’s still technically a mystery—for now—which will be announced for a late 2026 release.

Obviously, the display of this laptop will change Everything-Or maybe nothing. Per Bloomberg:

“Even with the new display, Apple won’t position the MacBook Pro as an iPad replacement — or describe its interface as a touch-first experience. Instead, the idea is to let customers use touch input as much as they want, and mix it with the familiar point-and-click approach.”

If Apple is really going to be so careless, it’s understandable. If you’ve ever worked with a touchscreen PC, you may have experienced it primarily as feature bloat. Articles abound on how to completely disable the touchscreen option on Windows machines. Then again, some people (myself included) absolutely love the new possibilities in Windows with touch displays, and don’t plan on ever looking back.

On MacBook Pros, the new Dynamic Island – a version of the resized pill shape over the floating camera hole on some iPhone screens – will reportedly be at the center-top of the screen. On iPhone, your dynamic island becomes your unlock “button”, as well as an intuitive first place to draw your attention when you take out your phone. It can display time remaining on the timer, sports scores, flight information and more.

According to Bloomberg, the relevant version of macOS will allow iPhone-style zooming and scrolling, and a new type of popup menu when the user taps a button. However, the basic format won’t change much from the current MacBook.

Interestingly, this change may partially explain why Apple so adamantly kept the unpopular liquid glass aesthetic, including MacBooks, even after users threw endless tantrums about it. Gurman writes that small changes have been made to Liquid Glass that will smooth the transition to the touchscreen MacBook Pro, including Control Center sliders that have been optimized for touch input, and “more padding” around certain notifications.