Touchscreen MacBook Pro to feature Dynamic Island and big macOS changes

Macworld In his latest scoop, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman dishes out a few details about the touchscreen-enabled Mac laptops we’ve heard about for some time. The new laptops—14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros, specifically—are currently on track to be released near the end of 2026. It sounds like the typical “October to December” timeframe isn’t changing. According to Gurman, the new MacBook Pros will include OLED displays that include both touch capabilities and the Dynamic Island as seen on iPhone. As with the iPhone, it will show the status of active tasks, sports scores, alerts, timers, and more. The Dynamic Island on MacBook Pro will be centered around a hole-punch camera cutout, smaller than the “pill” shape on iPhones. If you have been hoping for Face ID on a MacBook, as we have, it sounds like it might not be there just yet. But even if it doesn’t have Face ID, this will be the first Mac to ever feature a touchscreen. Steve Jobs famously called touch lap