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Customizing Control Strip

I've attempted to customize the control strip through System Preferences - Keyboard - Customize Control Strip. I can see the changes on the control strip on my computer (MacBook, 13 inch, 2020) so I click Done on the screen, but the icons on the Control Strip are not there. I can just see 5 on the right hand side - an arrow that brings up volume control, brightness, sound, mute and Siri. The ones I added in don't show. I read the posts below and reset the PRAM, but it doesn't seem to have done anything.


What am I doing wrong??? Thanks for any advice.

Posted on Feb 6, 2021 2:15 PM

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Posted on Feb 6, 2021 5:17 PM

midg wrote:

I've attempted to customize the control strip through System Preferences - Keyboard - Customize Control Strip. I can see the changes on the control strip on my computer (MacBook, 13 inch, 2020) so I click Done on the screen, but the icons on the Control Strip are not there. I can just see 5 on the right hand side - an arrow that brings up volume control, brightness, sound, mute and Siri. The ones I added in don't show. I read the posts below and reset the PRAM, but it doesn't seem to have done anything.

What am I doing wrong??? Thanks for any advice.


Shift Command 6 will screenshot the Touchbar if you need to illustrate some issue—


not all apps or optimized for Touch bar/Controlstrip



Customize the Touch Bar on Mac - Apple Support



You can make changes to >System Preferences>Keyboard>TouchBar and make it work better for you



If you think you have an issue

you can Try resetting the SMC https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295


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Feb 6, 2021 5:17 PM in response to midg

midg wrote:

I've attempted to customize the control strip through System Preferences - Keyboard - Customize Control Strip. I can see the changes on the control strip on my computer (MacBook, 13 inch, 2020) so I click Done on the screen, but the icons on the Control Strip are not there. I can just see 5 on the right hand side - an arrow that brings up volume control, brightness, sound, mute and Siri. The ones I added in don't show. I read the posts below and reset the PRAM, but it doesn't seem to have done anything.

What am I doing wrong??? Thanks for any advice.


Shift Command 6 will screenshot the Touchbar if you need to illustrate some issue—


not all apps or optimized for Touch bar/Controlstrip



Customize the Touch Bar on Mac - Apple Support



You can make changes to >System Preferences>Keyboard>TouchBar and make it work better for you



If you think you have an issue

you can Try resetting the SMC https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295


Customizing Control Strip

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