Change Apple keyboard – journal El Watan

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple a patent on the reconfigurable keyboard. The reconfigurable panel is designed with a small screen for each key, allowing the panel to display different characters according to user preferences. It comes after the company last month patented a new version of the Touch Bar with its integrated Force Touch technology. Apple has upgraded keyboards over the MacBook in recent years with additions like the Touch Bar, which you can program yourself, in addition to Touch ID, which is Apple’s fingerprint sensor. Since numbers, letters, and symbols are printed on keyboards, it’s difficult to make more drastic changes. The new idea may look like the current Touch Bar, except the new keyboard works in a different way. The physical keys still exist, but the patent shows that the keys on the new keyboard have a very small screen for each key instead of the regular engraved stickers.