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Apple's new MacBook Pro introduces touch controls, with macOS adapting mainly through apps rather than system-wide changes.
Apple's MacBook Pro features a touchscreen with touch controls for apps like Notion and Canva.
Dynamic Island and touch gestures like pinch-to-zoom are included in the new MacBook Pro.
Touch is mainly a secondary input, with most interactions still relying on traditional methods.
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Reach out and touch screen. 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 …
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