New Apple MacBook and iPad touchscreen keyboards revealed

The rumour mill has churned out plenty of gems on  for 2018 and now it looks like a touchscreen keyboard could appear too.

The keyless keyboard appeared in patent form at the US Patent & Trademark Office. So what’s new about this? According to the documents this is all about getting that touchscreen to feel like a real keyboard. As such Apple is looking at placing a unique haptic feedback board underneath the second display which should make it feel like real keys, sort of, when in keyboard mode.

Notice that this is being called a second display. That could mean Apple also intends to use this area to make a giant single screen, for second screen multitasking and, of course, for designers to use with an Apple Pencil for editing.

Expect to hear more on Apple’s new , at its Worldwide Developer Conference around June time.