Sidecar for artist

On2s wrote:

Apple ever going to make sidecar viable for artist? Don’t get me wrong it’s usable. Would be nice to use all this expensive hardware in tandem.

Read the Apple unsolicited feedback policy and then log some feedback with Apple around where sidecar falls short of your needs or expectations, and what you mean by using the hardware in tandem here beyond what sidecar and handoff and universal control and such provides, and potentially either involving or referencing third-party hardware add-ons.

has anyone heard anything now that 27 golden gate allows touch in sidecar? Is it just a test run for the touchscreen Mac?

No one here knows what Apple plans except those at Apple, and Apple doesn’t usually pre-announce their future plans, and they also do prefer we not speculate. We all learn about these at Apple product announcements and at Apple events such as WWDC.

On2s wrote:

Pen lag has massively improved in OS 27. The stabilization is terrible without smoothing.

I do use an iPad Pro to animate with, i guess I’m not understanding why he Apple Pencil goes form the great asset it is on the iPad to the performance of an MPP pen when connected to a Mac.

The single-user app-dedicated iPadOS design uses a very different internal system architecture than does the multi-user multi-processing macOS architecture, and device responsiveness is part of that.

The compromises made in every operating system design can go in different directions here.

Log some feedback with Apple.

FWIW, having done a whole lot of hardware-level interface work, interrupt responsiveness of a multiuser system always lags that of a dedicated or embedded system that has I/O-designated resources. In a multiuser system of my acquaintance, we ended up designating cores and bus paths to specific interface activities to get decent I/O performance, taking those cores and those bus connections out of general use. This in addition to the cores and firmware in the external hardware involved. It wasn’t a simple undertaking.

"So I’m unable to ask an Apple specific question in an Apple.com discussion forum?: If you do not have any input pertaining to the question, you shouldn’t go out of your way to click on it and chime in. This isn’t Reddit."

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Your post wasn't deleted. So, looking this up, it appears to speculative amongst other forums (as of the date of this reply): 27 Sidecar for artist 2026 2027. So, search by that, and you'll see what is provided.

I would love to see improvements to Sidecar and the Apple Pencil. Drawing in Photoshop shows an extremely wavy line that I’d have to dial up the smoothing, which causes lag in the brush. Using an app that does things like Sidecar like Astropad doesn’t have that (and allows for more functionality like tweaking the pen pressure)

So I’m unable to ask an Apple specific question in an Apple.com discussion forum?

If you do not have any input pertaining to the question, you shouldn’t go out of your way to click on it and chime in. This isn’t Reddit.

We can't talk about when, but we can certainly talk about HOW.

<< sidecar viable for artist? >>

what exactly do you mean by that?

how does the current implementation fall short of your needs and desires?

what would make it a much better fit?

do you use an iPad with Apple pencil now?

Pen lag has massively improved in OS 27. The stabilization is terrible without smoothing.

I do use an iPad Pro to animate with, i guess I’m not understanding why he Apple Pencil goes form the great asset it is on the iPad to the performance of an MPP pen when connected to a Mac.

I use a wired connection, WiFi off.

So I’m unable to ask an Apple specific question in an Apple.com discussion forum?

That is overly general. Pretty much any question here is "Apple-specific" because we are all Apple users.

What is not appropriate is covered in Section B of the Apple Support Community Terms of Use which you agreed to follow when you signed up here, and I am sure you fully read them before agreeing. See this entry:

We are other end users, not Apple employees, and have no special access to unannounced products, product development/planning, nor distribution info unless Apple publishes that info. We are just like you.

Speculation is not permitted on these-forums.

On2s wrote:

has anyone heard anything now that 27 golden gate allows touch in sidecar? Is it just a test run for the touchscreen Mac?

There is now a line of touchscreen Mac notebooks (MacBook Pros with PROLED displays).

Apple Newsroom (October 28, 2026) – Apple unveils groundbreaking MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch for the first time on Mac

When you made your post, on October 3, 2026, there were no touch screen Macs – and Apple had not announced plans for any. Asking whether touch in Sidecar was "just a test run for the touchscreen Mac" was speculation, and thus it is no surprise that you were told that "Speculation is not permitted on these-forums."

Note that the MacBook Pro with PROLED display does not appear to support the Apple Pencil.

Apple Pencil compatibility with MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR – Apple Community

If you are looking for a drawing tablet type of xperience, as your later post ("I do use an iPad Pro to animate with") suggests, I suspect that you will need to stick with an iPad and Sidecar, or with something like a Wacom graphics tablet.