Escape key in Touch Bar is not working

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Escape key in Touch Bar is not working

I have a MacBook Pro 15inch from 2019. My ESC key in Touch Bar is gone. I am not able to work as used anymore. When doing presentation I can not get out of the prevention with ESC anymore, same for fullscreen videos and all the other places.

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Posted on Jan 9, 2020 11:13 PM

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Jan 10, 2020 4:23 AM in response to juergen176

I had this issue too yesterday. I just answered another question regarding this issue. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250992377

For completeness, here is the solution in more detail:

What worked for me was to restart the "TouchBarServer":

Open the activity monitor (cmd space and type activity monitor)
Go to the "Disk" Tab and find the "TouchBarServer" process
Select it and press the little stop sign with the cross in the top left.

Alternatively, you can kill the processes in the terminal with the following commands:

Open the terminal, (cmd space, and type terminal).
type the following and press enter: sudo pkill TouchBarServer
Type in your password to give permission to kill the TouchBarServer.

I hope this helps!

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