Driving the news: Apple will ship the M6 MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and OLED display in late 2025, likely October or November, Bloomberg reports.

Apple is adding touch to the MacBook Pro for the first time. The new touchscreen will work alongside the keyboard and trackpad, not replace them, and macOS will automatically adapt its interface based on whether you're tapping the screen or using the mouse.

The M6 model replaces the current notch with a smaller hole-punch camera surrounded by Dynamic Island software—the same feature found on recent iPhones. Dynamic Island is a fluid on-screen area that expands when touched to show relevant controls. The display will use OLED technology, which offers brighter colors, deeper blacks, and better power efficiency than current MacBook Pro screens.

How touch will work: When you tap a button or control, macOS will display a special menu around your finger with touch-optimized options. Touch items in the menu bar and they'll enlarge for easier selection. Standard gestures like swiping, pinching, and scrolling—familiar from iPhones and iPads—will work throughout the system.

Apple previously resisted adding touchscreens to Macs. In 2018, Craig Federighi, Apple's SVP of Software Engineering, explained that

"lifting your arm to poke a screen is a pretty fatiguing thing to do."

The company's solution keeps touch as a secondary option rather than the primary input method.

The touchscreen feature will arrive with the M6 MacBook Pro later this year, even though new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros are expected to launch next week without touch capability. This gives developers time to update their apps to take advantage of the new touch features.

What remains unclear: Will existing Mac apps work with touch without updates? How will the OLED display affect battery life compared to current models? These questions will be important for both developers planning updates and consumers considering whether to upgrade.