If, like me, you detest entering credit and debit card details or various password combinations to unlock your laptop or various accounts, this is one of the best, if not the best, element of the Touch Bar. Unlocking the 15-inch MacBook Pro using Touch ID: /49HbuYfBjl On the far right of the Touch Bar panel is a redesigned power button, complete with fingerprint scanner for making Touch ID payments and verifying your identity. It scores highly in terms of convenience and sheer novelty, but the jury is out on whether it’ll become out of those can’t-live-without features, like a smartphone touch screen or a laptop touch pad. Photo scrolling using the Touch Bar: /z4uFZJHQJV However, many apps from third party developers will support Touch Bar in the future, including Photoshop and Pixelmator.

How useful you’ll find Touch Bar depends very much on how invested you are in using Apple’s own apps – Safari, Mail, Calendar, Photos, et al.Ĭurrently, the only apps which are fully optimised for Touch Bar are Apple’s own and a handful of others, including Microsoft Office, Skype and Outlook, meaning while you can get a quick preview of all your open tabs on Safari, it won’t work with Chrome – for now at least.

(Photo: i) Scroll swiftly through photos using the Touch Bar Tapping it causes the brief capture to play. If an image is a Live Photo, a small play icon will appear in the centre of the bar. Touch Bar is particularly useful when it comes to scrolling quickly, such as through an album of photos, through a string of emoji, or to find a particular phone in a video. See moreĮmoji scrolling using the Touch Bar: /gDzjUzopHW It’s a real novelty to see tiny webpages or pictures on the screen, which is thankfully designed to be viewed at a 45-degree angle, so images and text remain sharp and legible.

Touch Bar is supposed to remove the need to scroll through endless menus and searching for settings, bringing the most obvious and useful functions right to your fingertips, and it’s great for that.

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