macOS 16 could answer this key question about the Mac’s future

This year’s WWDC is going to be a big one for software changes, with iOS 19, macOS 16, and more expected to get major design overhauls. While a lot of focus is on the iPhone’s changes, there’s a very important reason why macOS 16 could prove just as significant: it may be the best evidence yet that touchscreen Macs are finally coming. The first touchscreen Mac might arrive next year, and WWDC will be telling Apple shipped the iPhone with multitouch in 2007. It followed up with the iPad in 2010. And all throughout the many years since then, bringing touch to the Mac has been a constant question. Executives at Apple have regularly shot down the idea. But as history has proven, Apple can deny something vehemently only to be secretly working on it behind the scenes. Yet so much time has passed. Touch has long become the norm on PCs, but there are still no touchscreen Macs. Leaving aside macOS 16 for a moment though, the 2026 MacBook Pro sounds like the best chance yet for that to chan ... Read full article.