macos sometimes thinks my M1 Macbook Air has a touch bar

Peterchang54 wrote:

Sometimes MacOS thinks my M1 Macbook Air has a touch bar, and sometimes it doesn't. It's annoying, because I made an app using Automator to created a keyboard shortcut to check/uncheck "Use F1, F2, etc. keys" but the shortcut won't work when the menu title option keeps changing to "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys on external keyboards".

Any fix or any ideas as to what causes MacOS to think it has a touch bar?

When MacOS thinks the M1 Macbook Air has a touch bar:

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/c1aa0d88-07b3-4545-a893-65d7477c0f8f

And when MacOS doesn't think the M1 Macbook Air has a touch bar (as it should):

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/e35ac2f6-1a5a-44af-a11e-0c5b67e97505

You can try—

the M1 SoC

The best you can do if you have an issue— equivalent Shut down, close the lid 30 secs+ , reboot as normal and if no resolve SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262