Touch bar/control strip not appearing

The right half of my control strip isn't appearing. The left side has esc, emojis, and suggested words popping up but the right side is completely blank. Any advice? I tried to go to activity monitor and find touch bar but I couldn't find it. I have a MacBook Pro (2019) and my MacOS is updated to version 10.15.7. TIA!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Nov 12, 2020 2:04 PM

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Posted on Nov 18, 2020 6:46 PM

Hello _rita18!


From your post we see you are having some trouble with the Touch Bar on your MacBook not appearing on the right side. We want to help get that issue resolved! Start by resetting the SMC on your MacBook with these steps: How to reset the SMC of your Mac. After that if the issue continues try running a diagnostic to see if any issues are reported: Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac. That should give us a good basis for getting this issue fixed.


Take care!

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Nov 18, 2020 6:46 PM in response to _rita18

Hello _rita18!


From your post we see you are having some trouble with the Touch Bar on your MacBook not appearing on the right side. We want to help get that issue resolved! Start by resetting the SMC on your MacBook with these steps: How to reset the SMC of your Mac. After that if the issue continues try running a diagnostic to see if any issues are reported: Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac. That should give us a good basis for getting this issue fixed.


Take care!

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