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Why do my media control functions and tab selector disappear from the touch bar?

My touch is functional in all other applications except Safari, not that it doesn't work but that the media controls (play/pause, video skimmer, picture-in-picture, etc.) literally just vanish when any video is played on the browser. It could be a YouTube video or any video at all. Occasionally the controls randomly show up but the moment they are used they vanish again, and when they do show up, the play/pause button is missing or the video skimmer is missing and instead has a different configuration [ refer pic 3]. Sorry for the confusing picture orientation.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 9, 2021 10:51 PM

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Posted on Feb 10, 2021 5:06 AM

ayxsh wrote:

My touch is functional in all other applications except Safari, not that it doesn't work but that

the media controls (play/pause, video skimmer, picture-in-picture, etc.) literally just vanish when any video is played on the browser.

It could be a YouTube video or any video at all. Occasionally the controls randomly show up but the moment they are used they vanish again, and when they do show up, the play/pause button is missing or the video skimmer is missing and instead has a different configuration [ refer pic 3]. Sorry for the confusing picture orientation.


what macOS..? verify your macOS Software is up to date, stable release of Catalina is 10.15.7



Shift Command 6 will screen shot the TouchBar....


Safari.app



video scrub



See if you can make some changes in Safari for your TouchBar

Safari>View> Customize Touchbar



Can you add back tabs?






https://support.apple.com/guide/macbook-pro/customize-the-touch-bar-apd5bd26b53e/mac


https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/customize-the-touch-bar-mchl5a63b060/mac


Use the Touch Bar on Mac - Apple Support




If no resolve— verify your Software is up to date.


You can always reinstall the macOS on top of your existing macOS to sort anomalies with "baked-in" apps like Safari.


How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904




See if there is something in Safari>Preferences interfering

or

>System Preferences>Extensions>Added Extensions

or

>System Preferences>Keyboard make some changes(?)


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Feb 10, 2021 5:06 AM in response to ayxsh

ayxsh wrote:

My touch is functional in all other applications except Safari, not that it doesn't work but that

the media controls (play/pause, video skimmer, picture-in-picture, etc.) literally just vanish when any video is played on the browser.

It could be a YouTube video or any video at all. Occasionally the controls randomly show up but the moment they are used they vanish again, and when they do show up, the play/pause button is missing or the video skimmer is missing and instead has a different configuration [ refer pic 3]. Sorry for the confusing picture orientation.


what macOS..? verify your macOS Software is up to date, stable release of Catalina is 10.15.7



Shift Command 6 will screen shot the TouchBar....


Safari.app



video scrub



See if you can make some changes in Safari for your TouchBar

Safari>View> Customize Touchbar



Can you add back tabs?






https://support.apple.com/guide/macbook-pro/customize-the-touch-bar-apd5bd26b53e/mac


https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/customize-the-touch-bar-mchl5a63b060/mac


Use the Touch Bar on Mac - Apple Support




If no resolve— verify your Software is up to date.


You can always reinstall the macOS on top of your existing macOS to sort anomalies with "baked-in" apps like Safari.


How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904




See if there is something in Safari>Preferences interfering

or

>System Preferences>Extensions>Added Extensions

or

>System Preferences>Keyboard make some changes(?)


Why do my media control functions and tab selector disappear from the touch bar?

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