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TouchBar Disappears When Expanded

Hello, for some reason my TouchBar on my MacBook Pro disappears when I expand it. I have tried restarting multiple times, killing the TouchBar, etc, but none of it seems to fix this problem. Please help, thanks.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Oct 7, 2021 11:45 AM

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Posted on Oct 8, 2021 11:09 AM

GCarrot91 wrote:

Hello, for some reason my TouchBar on my MacBook Pro disappears when I expand it. I have tried restarting multiple times, killing the TouchBar, etc, but none of it seems to fix this problem. Please help, thanks.






Make changes to the System Preferences to compare results:

 > System Preferences>Keyboard>>Keyboard.


Customize the Touch Bar on Mac - Apple Support



If you still have an issue on a Intel Mac—


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

and

Try resetting NVRAM/PRAM http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

(get at least two-three rounds of the chimes when holding the NRAM Reset)





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Oct 8, 2021 11:09 AM in response to GCarrot91

GCarrot91 wrote:

Hello, for some reason my TouchBar on my MacBook Pro disappears when I expand it. I have tried restarting multiple times, killing the TouchBar, etc, but none of it seems to fix this problem. Please help, thanks.






Make changes to the System Preferences to compare results:

 > System Preferences>Keyboard>>Keyboard.


Customize the Touch Bar on Mac - Apple Support



If you still have an issue on a Intel Mac—


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

and

Try resetting NVRAM/PRAM http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

(get at least two-three rounds of the chimes when holding the NRAM Reset)





TouchBar Disappears When Expanded

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