Foldable iPhone and Touch-Screen MacBook. Apple’s Betas Just Confirmed Both Are Coming

Apple’s iOS 27 and macOS 27 betas are quietly laying the groundwork for two of the company’s most anticipated new products: a foldable iPhone and a touch-screen MacBook.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman recapped the clues buried in the first beta as seen by many developers, and they’re pretty hard to dismiss as coincidence.

Foldable iPhone

The most telling sign is in the iPhone Mirroring app on macOS 27, which has been updated to stretch out into wider, iPad-like layouts when mirroring an iPhone. That’s not something you’d build for current iPhones. On top of that, iOS 27 beta code contains direct references to a foldable device, multiple displays, additional sensors, and a mechanism for the system to detect how far open a device is.

Apple also made a point at WWDC of pushing developers toward “app adaptability,” essentially telling them to build apps that work across a range of screen sizes. That’s exactly what you’d want developers doing before a foldable hits the market.

Touch-Screen MacBook

The macOS 27 changes are just as obvious that something else is brewing. Apple added pull-to-refresh to the Mac interface, which works with a trackpad today but is clearly designed with touch in mind. Sidecar, the feature that lets you use an iPad as a second display for your Mac, now supports full touch input. And the new pill-shaped Siri search interface on Mac looks a lot like something designed to pop out of a Dynamic Island, which doesn’t exist on any Mac yet but Gurman has previously reported is coming with the first touch MacBook.

Gurman expects the foldable iPhone, known internally as V68, to debut in September. The touch-screen MacBook Pro, code-named K114 and K116, is expected sometime between late this year and early 2027, depending on where things land with memory and silicon supply.