Late 2026 MacBook Pro Refresh to Include Multitouch, Dynamic Island

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple will issue a major refresh of its 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models this fall that includes multitouch displays and the Dynamic Island user interface used on modern iPhones.

“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 said of Microsoft combining tablet and laptop functionality to create the Surface line of PCs. He later referred to Surface as “compromised” and “confusing.” And then he called Surface Book, a multitouch laptop with a detachable screen, “deluded.”

Deluded like a fox, I guess. In the latest in a long line of hypocrisy, Apple will release its own multitouch laptop, albeit one without a detachable display—one assumes that’s on the way in about five years—in the form of a new line of MacBook Pros that will utilize multitouch OLED display panels and sport a Dynamic Island instead of a notch.

The new MacBook Pro models will otherwise look “similar” to the current heavy and bulky models that Apple now sells, Gurman says. But the software will by “dynamic” and let users switch between “being optimized for touch or point-and-click input.” So it will have two modes, as Windows 8 did.

“For instance, if users touch a button or control, the interface will bring up a new type of menu surrounding their finger that provides more relevant options for touch commands,” Gurman explains. “The goal is to give users the controls that make the most sense based on whether they’re touching or clicking.”

Gurman further claims that Liquid Glass plays a role in these new MacBooks: One of the reasons that Apple used the same basic UI across all its platforms was to prepare macOS for multitouch. For macOS 27, the Liquid Glass controls will display more padding so that they make more sense for touch.

As for the Dynamic Island, the version on the MacBook Pros will be smaller than that on the iPhone today and perhaps will match the smaller Dynamic Island expected to debut on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max this fall too.

As a reminder, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs also hated the idea of a multitouch laptop, noting that such a thing was “ergonomically terrible.” But I’m sure Apple will figure that out somehow. After all, the company really nailed good design with Liquid Glass.