How to customize or disable the touchscreen on the new MacBook Pro and Sidecar
Apple’s new MacBook Pro includes a setting to ignore touch gestures, while accessibility tools let users customize touch controls.
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Disable Touch on MacBook Pro PROLED XDR and When Using Sidecar
Apple has long rejected the idea of a touchscreen Mac, so moving ahead with one was always going to be a major shift in the company's thinking. In 2010, Steve Jobs argued that "touch surfaces don't want to be vertical," citing the arm fatigue that comes from repeatedly reaching up to a screen. Some would call this sacrilege... More than a decade later, in 2021, Apple's then-hardware engineering chief John Ternus remarked that the Mac was made ex…
Apparently, you can disable the touchscreen on the PROLED MacBook Pro, but why would you?
Apple has had a busy couple of months. Not only did it announce its first folding phone, the iPhone Duo, but it also revealed its first smart display, the HomeView, its first iPad mini with an OLED display. There was also its first touchscreen Mac, of course.Safe to say, then, that the new CEO, John Ternus, has done everything he can to hit the ground running since taking over the reins from Tim Cook at the beginning of September. There’s plenty…
Learn how to disable or customize the touch-sensitive screen of the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR, adjust gestures for accessibility settings, and understand the impacts on using Sidecar with iPad.
The MacBook Pro with ProLED Screen XDR has an important place in Apple's history, precisely because it is the brand's first computer with a screen sensitive to
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