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Tap the Fn key and hey presto, the Touch Bar appears, changing dynamically based on the app you’re using. Your Mac obviously doesn’t have a touchscreen, but you can select the various features by clicking on them. It’s admittedly a long way from the full and authentic Touch Bar experience, but it’s a fun way to test out Apple’s newest tech on your current machine.

The iPad version is perhaps more interesting and a bit more fiddly to set up, because you need to side-load the app onto iOS and keep your tablet plugged into your laptop via a USB cable. If you’re prepared to put in the legwork then you can control a virtual Touch Bar on your iPad that affects what’s on screen on your Mac.

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While this demo app isn’t as helpful or as intuitive as the real Touch Bar, you can see which apps support it and which functions you can access without too much effort. It might be enough to tempt you to upgrade your MacBook Pro this Christmas after all.