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Questions tagged [touch-bar]

Certain MacBook Pro models, starting in 2016, contain a Retina multi-touch display in place of the standard physical function keys. This tag is for questions about both the hardware and customization of what's displayed on it.

This Multi-Touch Retina display at the top of the new MacBook Pro keyboard changes depending on what the user does in your app, so you can surface context-specific features and controls.

For example:

  • In Mail, the Touch Bar will display buttons to create a new message, replying, or moving an email to the trash.
  • In Safari, you can preview tabs and switch through them using the Touch Bar, open a new tab, or go to one of your favorited sites without having to use the trackpad.
  • You can swipe through your images in Photos with previews, scrub through videos, and make edits like rotating photos, cropping, and adding filters.
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Have touchbar show vol up, vol down, brightness up, brightness down buttons by default

How can I make my touch bar ALWAYS show the Volume Down, Volume Up, Brightness Down, Brightness Up buttons? I absolutely hate having to touch the button, look down at the slider, and try to drag it into the right position. Is it possible for me…
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How can I adjust Touch Bar brightness?

Is there a way to adjust MacBook Pro's Touch Bar brightness? MacBook Pro, 13", 2016, macOS Sierra 10.12.6
Prokop Hanzl
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MacBook Pro Touch Bar control strip gone

The control strip of my touch bar is not working anymore. Even after a full restart or start in safe mode. There's nothing on the Touch Bar's 'screen' (either in Mac or Windows via Bootcamp). It doesn't respond to taps. In keyboard Preferences…
Tom Deleu
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What is the "Spray Like" icon in the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar?

There is an icon that looks like a spray can on the right side of the Touch Bar (4th-5th button from the right?) Does anyone know what it is for? (Sorry I couldn't find an image of it on the web)
Pochi
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How can I lower the TouchBar brightness level?

On the 2016 MacBook Pro, the touchbar has very high luminosity. At day it is very nice, but at night it blinds me. It's especially vexing because I run f.lux's Darkroom mode to reduce the glare that might wake my wife up, and the main source of…
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How to decrease timeout after which Touch Bar goes to sleep?

There is an option for keyboard backlight to be switched off after some timeout. I would like to do the same for Touch Bar.
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How can I let apps make changes using TouchID on MacBook Pro?

How can I allow an app to make changes without typing in the password, but using TouchID on the Touch Bar instead? MacBook Pro, 13", 2016, macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Example:
Prokop Hanzl
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What's this statistics-looking icon on my TouchBar?

I've just discovered this icon on my MacBook Pro's TouchBar: Looks like some sort of statistics, or so? It only appears occasionally. Tapping on it I get this slider: This doesn't do anything though. When sliding I get a "0:00" count next to it…
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Is there a way to flip the touchbar icons?

Straightforward question: Is there a way to flip the buttons so the minimized control strip appears on the left and opens to the right, and so the escape button is stuck to the right of the bar? I constantly find myself accidentally hitting the…
Octavian
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Why does my Touchbar's Control Strip no longer control iTunes?

I re-arranged the icons on my control strip, and now the playback buttons (play/pause, next, previous) no longer control playback in the Music/iTunes app. I've already tried: * restarting my computer * resetting the control strip to default…
Jordan Warbelow-Feldstein
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Make volume and brightness sliders stay open on macbook pro touch bar

I have already changed the setting in Keyboard Settings for the Touch Bar shows to Expanded Control Strip and I have volume and brightness sliders loaded onto the expanded control strip. However, I still have to press the button before I slide. Can…
Daniel
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Touch Bar - Alternate Key Combination to Show App controls

Hope someone can help. I have my touch configured like the following. This is basically the same setting that you got with the Mac Book Pros 2012 - 2015 as default. I am a developer and use code editors so it's very important to me that my…
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Can I lock the functions on the touch bar?

Is it possible to lock the touch bar to always display the default functions ("buttons")? I quite often use the buttons for sound and display brightness, but the touch bar almost never has them, since it changes according to my app on…
Milkncookiez
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Customize control strip in Keynote

I'd like to add the View->Light Table button on the touch bar. Is this possible? I've been trying to find a way, but no success until now.
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Mysterious "Chart-Encircled" Button in Touch Bar

The image shows the mysterious "chart encircled" button in my Touch Bar, on a 2019 MacBook Pro (2 Thunderbolt Ports). It shows four bar-chart-alike bars of varying height in black, on a background of a circle of white. What is it? I press it when…
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