Apple’s Future MacBook Pro, iMac, and iPad Pro May Get a Bigger Color Upgrade

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Publish Date: 2026-06-29 13:24:00

Creative professionals have long been color grading Rec.2020 HDR footage in Final Cut Pro on screens that cannot display what the software already sees. That’s the absurdity Apple is preparing to fix. According to TrendForce’s late June 2026 AMOLED report, Apple plans to adopt OLED panels covering approximately 95% of the BT.2020 color gamut across future MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and iMac lines. Think of it as a chef who perfected the recipe years ago, still cooking on a broken oven. The upgrade is finally coming.

Beyond P3 — What BT.2020 Actually Means for Your Screen

The color standard hierarchy matters more than most users realize, especially in the saturated reds and greens that current displays simply cannot render.

The stack runs like this:

Rec.709 covers standard color.
DCI-P3 is what current Apple devices target.
BT.2020 is substantially wider than both — particularly in deep reds and greens — and serves as the foundation for HDR formats like Rec.2100 and Dolby Vision mastering.

Colors that exist in your footage but remain invisible on today’s P3 screens become renderable. That’s not a subtle tweak.

Getting there requires rethinking the actual molecules inside each pixel. Panel makers — reportedly Samsung Display and LG Display for Apple’s supply chain — must shift focus from brightness and resolution toward color purity and spectral control. The key technology involves MR-TADF emitters: molecules engineered to emit narrower bands of light, producing cleaner OLED panels output. Additional “helper” material layers boost efficiency, keeping power consumption reasonable despite the wider gamut demands.