Touch bar preview review
After seeing Touch Bar being used by an Apple employee to its maximum potential we felt we had seen the future of computing, but on getting home and remembering we are writers, not video or audio editors, the illusion of the Touch Bar being useful began to fade.įor starters, it does not work at all in Chrome (save for the right-hand buttons for brightness, volume, Siri etc), so in our working day the Touch Bar is mostly blank. Whether you will find the Touch Bar genuinely useful or not depends on how closely your personal workflow matches that of Apple's slick presentations. It can be used for correcting mis-spelt words, and seeing an emoji list on there is almost as useful as it is fun, but otherwise assisting typing isn't where the Touch Bar shines.Įmoji on the Touch Bar look great and are one of the few useful features for now IBTimes UK We are writing this review in Pages and three suggestions appear in the middle of the bar as we type, just as they do on an iPhone, but here it is far too slow to be of any use.
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There is nothing stopping the developers of professional applications like Photoshop from giving the Touch Bar more control, however in Photos it looks impressive, but soon feels lacking.Īnother place where the Touch Bar feels half-finished is with word suggestions, which appear as you type.
For adjusting the colour levels of an image in Photos there are 14 sliders, but the Touch Bar only gives access to three. The same is true in Apple's own Photos app, where images can be found, cropped and adjusted using just the Touch Bar, but doing so can become confusing. It's a nice visual demonstration and switching between open tabs with a tap is useful once you remember the option is there, but it doesn't necessarily make using Safari easier than with a regular keyboard and the trackpad.
Touch Bar buttons can be added, removed and rearranged via the Settings app IBTimes UK