A Chinese leaker, known as Instant Digital, claimed on Weibo that a touchscreen MacBook is ‘100% confirmed’ to come to fruition for the very first time. Furthermore, this claim is backed up by previous rumors going as far back as 2023 when Mark Gurman from Bloomberg first claimed that Apple would launch a MacBook Pro with an OLED display in 2025 as its first touchscreen Mac. Of course, that timeframe came and went, so the launch, of course, didn’t happen. On a related note, in September 2025, Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that OLED MacBook Pros would enter mass production by the end of this year, and Gurman seemed to back up that rumor, estimating a launch either in the fall of 2026 or in early 2027. However, with the ongoing memory chip shortage crisis, the latter timeframe would seem more likely.
For at least a decade, Apple has opposed the concept of having touchscreens on Macs. In fact, Steve Jobs famously quoted that “touchscreens don’t want to be vertical as the user’s arm would get fatigued and want to fall off.” Even soon-to-be CEO John Ternus claimed that the Mac is designed for indirect input via a keyboard and mouse/trackpad.
However, with the introduction of macOS 27 Golden Gate, we have been seeing several clues that Apple is working on a touchscreen MacBook, tentatively called the “MacBook Ultra.” For one, Sidecar will now enable touch support directly on the iPad’s display. Apple is even bringing the swipe-to-refresh gesture from iOS/iPadOS to macOS along with other UI design refinements such as sidebar tweaks and more consistent corner radii in windows.
With those in mind, it’s safe to say that Apple’s working hard to optimize the UI for the upcoming touchscreen MacBook as previously rumored by Mark Gurman, so it’s definitely one of the biggest products to look forward to.
