The new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display supports Apple CMF 2026, a set of color modes designed to make displays look consistent across different technologies and viewers. It is the first laptop, and the second product overall, to support the modes, according to The Verge’s John Higgins.
Color-matching functions, or CMFs, mathematically represent how people perceive color. CIE 1931 has been a standard calibration target for nearly a century, but its limitations are more apparent with newer display technologies such as OLED, LEDs with KSF phosphors, and quantum dots. Differences in people’s eyes can also make the same image look different to different viewers, even when displays share a D65 white point. CIE 1931 was based on 17 test subjects, Higgins writes.
Apple first added its new CMF to Studio Display XDR. The MacBook Pro has two Apple CMF 2026 reference modes: one for P3 color primaries and another combining P3 and Adobe RGB. It also offers 14 other reference color modes based on CIE 1931, including DICOM for medical imaging.
Peak brightness is 2,000 nits for both HDR and SDR content. True Tone adjusts HDR tone mapping, brightness, and white point to ambient lighting. Apple Pro Display Calibrator supports three methods for calibrating reference modes or a custom mode. Apple is working with a CIE technical committee on a proposed standard.
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