Sidecar Users are going to love this!

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For anybody who uses Sidecar on iPad/Mac, this will probably be a welcome feature for you. I mostly use Universal Control, but I’m looking forward to trying this out.

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This is really for the upcoming iphone foldable.

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I have zero interest in a foldable phone. But it will be interesting to see how many people will line up to buy the first one from Apple.

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Not to mention the inevitable, Android/Samsung users have had foldable phones for years. :wink:

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I don’t have any positions on foldable phones, and I’m not sure it matters for this thread. The point here is that this new affordance allows iPad Sidecar users to use their native iPad touch interface to interact with their Mac desktops. That seems like a very beneficial improvement for heavy Sidecar users. (That this may foretell of foldable iPhones being able to work in Sidecar mode, is interesting.)

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I think you mean “This is really for the upcoming touchscreen macbook”, no?

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No - I think the folding iphone is much more a sure thing. IMHO, this feature will allow a foldable iPhone to be used as a sidecar to a Mac in the same way an iPad can be used now.

Note: Not saying I want a folding iPhone or that sidecaring an iPhone to a Mac will be a common use case, just that this makes sense for that?

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I hope this means we’ll be able to use the Apple Pencil on the Mac.

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You don’t need touch control to be able to do sidecar with an iPhone (justly like you don’t need touch control to do sidecar with an iPad now). The iPhone could just be another screen.

To me, adding touch control hints much more strongly at Apple adding touch interfaces to the Mac, which means a touch-screen powerbook.

(PS - I have no interest in a folding iPhone or a touch-screen Mac. Though I do think that allowing touch input on my iPad would make me more likely to use it in sidecar)

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In the spirit of WWDC being about refinement and tweaks, adding touch controls to make some sidecar operations easier, makes sense.

A larger iPhone screen, such as an unfolded foldable iPhone, certainly provides more utility when used in sidecar mode.

Certainly, many Apple features are often “dual use” with the second use reliant on newer/future hardware.

However, if they were paving the way for a touch Mac, a lot more important changes would need attention first.