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    Apple set to introduce touch-screen Mac laptops this year

    Apple is set to introduce touch-screen Mac laptops, a move that will bring significant updates to macOS, including the integration of the iPhone’s Dynamic Island feature, Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg News, citing people with knowledge of the plans.

    The first touch-enabled Macs, expected to launch this fall, will feature the Dynamic Island centered at the top of the display, the people said, requesting anonymity because the information is not yet public.

    Apple is updating its 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models to support touch input, equipping them with the same OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display technology currently used in iPhones.

    Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
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    Apple is announcing new products, including Mac updates, during the first week of March, but the touch-screen MacBook Pros won’t be part of that rollout. Those models, code-named K114 and K116, are slated for release closer to the end of 2026.

    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 the touch input as much or as little as they’d like,

    To that end, the new MacBook Pro looks similar to the current model, including a full keyboard and large trackpad. Still, the Mac will gain a refreshed, dynamic user interface that can shift between being optimized for touch or point-and-click input, said the people.

    The display on the MacBook Pro will have the same standard touch features as the iPhone and iPad, including fast scrolling and the ability to zoom in and out of images and PDFs.

    The touch-screen launch is a major shift for Apple, which for decades had criticized the idea of touch laptops. Co-founder Steve Jobs famously called such an experience “ergonomically terrible.”

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    Since we’re perfectly fine with using mice and trackpads, we’ll continue to keep our Mac displays free of greasy fingerprints, even if Apple releases touchscreen Macs.

    Do you really want to smear your fingers all over your MacBook Pro’s display?

    Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. After an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. – Steve Jobs

    For many years, every MacBook Pro has offered a built-in multi-touch-capable Force Touch trackpad.

    Does it make more sense to be smearing your fingers around on your notebook’s screen or on a spacious trackpad that’s designed specifically and solely to be touched? … The iPhone’s screen has to be touched; that’s all it has available. A MacBook’s screen does not have to be touched in order to offer Multi-Touch. — MacDailyNews, March 26, 2009

    I think anything can be forced to converge. The problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to the point where what you have left at the end of the day doesn’t please anyone. You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user. – Apple CEO Tim Cook, remarking on the idea of a converged Mac and iPad, April 25, 2012

    We really feel that the ergonomics of using a Mac are that your hands are rested on a surface, and that lifting your arm up to poke a screen is a pretty fatiguing thing to do. I don’t think we’ve looked at any of the other guys to date and said, how fast can we get there? — Apple SVP Craig Federighi, June 5, 2018

    [Y]ou get this in-between thing, and in-between things are never as good as the individual things themselves. We believe the best personal computer is a Mac, and we want to keep going down that path. And we think the best tablet computing device is an iPad, and we’ll go down that path.

    iPad benefits because we assume that you need to be able to do most everything with touch, and we don’t have to trade off on that experience. Mac assumes you want to do most everything with a keyboard and mouse input. We don’t have to trade off on that path. You can look at some of the other products that will try to go halfway between the two. They end up just compromising experiences. That’s not good. – Apple SVP Phil Schiller, November 13, 2019

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    Source link: https://macdailynews.com/2026/02/24/apple-set-to-introduce-touch-screen-mac-laptops-this-year/

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    How to sync all your iPhone messages to Mac

    In this quick step-by-step tutorial, we’ll show you how to have your iPhone SMS, MMS, RCS texts, and iMessages show up inside the Messages app on your Mac.

    This feature, officially called Messages in iCloud, ensures that all your texts are available across all your Apple devices.

    Turning on Messages in iCloud lets you access, reply to, and delete texts on your Mac, and these changes will also show up on your iPhone.

    Additionally, with this feature enabled, you’ll get notifications for new SMS, MMS, and RCS texts right on your Mac (new iMessage notifications show up even if you don’t turn on Messages in iCloud but use the same iMessage/Apple account on your Mac and iPhone).

    On top of this, with Messages in iCloud activated on your computer, you can autofill one-time codes in Safari on Mac, without touching your iPhone. It’s really effortless (when it works).

    What you need to see iPhone messages on Mac

    Messages in iCloud requires the following:

    • Sign in to the same Apple Account on both devices
    • Sufficient free iCloud space (messages stored in iCloud count towards your allocated storage space)
    • Connect both devices to the internet
    • Turn on the feature, as mentioned below

    Sync iPhone messages to Mac

    It requires enabling Messages in iCloud on both your iOS and macOS devices. We’ve explained everything in two simple steps.

    Step 1: Turn on Messages in iCloud on iPhone

    1) Open the iOS Settings app.

    2) Tap your Apple Account name at the top.

    3) Tap iCloud.

    Tap Apple Account name in Settings and select iCloud on iPhone

    4) Tap Messages.

    5) Turn on Use on this iPhone.

    Tap Messages and Use on this iPhone

    Now, your iPhone will start uploading all your messages to iCloud, which can take a long time, especially if you have thousands of texts and a slow internet.

    iPhone messages Syncing with iCloud

    Step 2: Turn on Messages in iCloud on Mac

    1) Launch System Settings on your Mac.

    2) Click your Apple Account name in the top left corner.

    3) Select iCloud.

    4) Click Messages.

    5) Turn on the switch for Use on this Mac and click Done.

    Use on this Mac enabled in Mac iCloud Messages settings

    Your Mac will now download all messages your iPhone has uploaded to iCloud. Open the macOS Messages app to see them.

    From now on, your iPhone messages will be uploaded to iCloud and downloaded to your Mac regularly in the background. For reliable sync, it’s best to leave your iPhone connected to Wi-Fi and charging overnight. If you don’t connect your iPhone to Wi-Fi regularly, you may notice that old messages have not synced to iCloud over cellular data. In this case, return to iOS Messages in iCloud settings and use the Sync Now button to do it manually.

    Additionally, remember that most iCloud sync features, such as iCloud Photos and Messages in iCloud, are suspended temporarily when your iPhone and Mac are in Low Power Mode.

    If you have multiple MacBooks and Mac desktops, repeat the above steps on all computers where you want to access your iPhone messages. However, I would not recommend using it on Macs you share with other people, such as your office computer or one in the guest room. If you must have access to iPhone messages on such computers, create a separate account and then turn it on there. Don’t let anyone else use this account or disclose its login passcode.

    You can also use the same steps as above to access all your iPhone messages on another iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro, provided all devices are using the same Apple ID.

    If your iMessages don’t show up on Mac

    Follow these quick steps to ensure iMessage is active with the same accounts on your iPhone and Mac. This will ensure the same iMessage texts on both devices.

    1. Open the macOS Messages app and click Messages > Settings in the top menu bar.
    2. Go to the iMessage tab.
    3. Make sure the Apple Account matches the one on your iPhone. Then, make sure the phone number and email addresses you see under the “You can be reached for messages at” are the same as those checked in your iPhone Settings > Apps > Messages > Send & Receive.

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