16 MACWORLD JANUARY 2022
MACUSER TOUCH BAR COULD HAVE A NEW LIFECalendar, Numbers, GarageBand, Final Cut
Pro X, and many more, including third-
party apps. For example, the Touch Bar
can show Tabs and Favorites in Safari,
enable easy access to emoji in Messages,
provide a simple way to edit images or
scrub through videos in Photos, and so
much more.”
Now read it as a feature of the
MacBook Air:
“The Touch Bar places controls for
common tasks right at the user’s fingertips
depending on the app you’re using, like
Mail, Finder, Calendar, GarageBand, and
many more, including third-party apps. For
example, the Touch Bar can show Tabs
and Favorites in Safari, enable easy
access to emoji in Messages, offer easy
access to controls like volume and
brightness, and so much more.”
See how easy it is?MAGIC KEYBOARD
Apple’s standalone Magic Keyboard is a
good keyboard, but it’s hardly magical. It
doesn’t have backlit keys, it isn’t all that
ergonomic, and you have to buy an iMac
to get it in any color other than silver and
space gray. But if Apple really wants to
add some magic to its Magic Keyboard, a
Touch Bar would absolutely do the trick.
It could be an option for Apple silicon
Macs like the Touch ID model and would
probably cost $249 for the numeric
keypad, but the Touch Bar would be a
brilliant addition to Apple’s Bluetooth
family. We’d
probably have
to sacrifice
some battery
life, but that
would be an
acceptable
tradeoff for one
of the coolest
features ever to
grace a
Bluetooth
keyboard. A
Touch Bar on
the Magic
A Touch Bar would truly make the Magic Keyboard magical. Keyboard