Emojis not showing up on touch bar

They ARE there, but when I press the emoji, then I just get a black touch bar with a non-responsive closing x

Guys I have the same problem but I might have just found a solution. I was in the UK for 2 weeks and it worked all the time I was there, once I got back to my home country, it stopped working again after few hours. I changed my Region to UK a it WORKS again. Not sure if this is permanent FIX but worth trying.

Btw total ignore from Apple, they ditched touch bar so they don't care about it anymore. There were 2 updates of Monterey and none of them fixed this issue!!! Really frustrating

EDIT: in response to grula

"They ARE there, but when I press the emoji, then I just get a black touch bar with a non-responsive closing x"

wow i'm having the exact same problem here!

usually a restart will fix it, but i still notice that it right after restarting it still shows only the X the first time tapping on the emoji button, only a second time after exiting will display all of them. (even in Safe Boot)

I also often notice that it will stop displaying altogether nor being able to tap the X to exit when the Mac has been running long hours. It's just stuck on the X unless I click on somewhere else I can type, even then it happens.

Also started happening when I've updated to Monterey.

This issue on my machine was fixed after I updated macOS to Monterey version 12.3.1. Everyone please try to update it! Good luck! 🫶

I've had the same issue, restarting my Mac fixes it but it then re-occurs some time down the line. Happened about 5 times now.

I did try safe mode and it seemed to fix the issue. Then a couple weeks later, the issue pops up again. Restart my Mac and it started working again. Haven't had problems since 🤞🏼

Problem solved - simply instal the newest software update!

For me worked 12.2 update🤷‍♀️

Absolutely same issue. I kill the touchbar through activity monitor and it works for a while but the same issue pops up after a while. As far as I know, mostly everybody with Macbook Pro M1 are facing the same problem.

Same here - the only thing I have potentially noticed what might be causing it is MS Teams. My emoji's seem to work fine until I use teams and try to enter them on there. After that they seem to stay away.

I just wanted to add that I have been experiencing the same issue in the hopes that Apple will address this in a further update! I had been on Big Sur since I got my MacBook and never experienced an issue like this. It only began once I upgraded to Monterey. Additionally, a similar thing occurs when working with CLion, and the application no longer responds to the debugging buttons that are normally available on the touchbar.

Guys, 12.3 came out. Let us know, if the issue has been fixed for you in a few days. They added some new emojis so it would be funny if we still could not use them because the touch bar’s not been fixed😆

I am having this same issue and my computer is only a month old. Apple, what's the solution. It's not a good sign that I'm already having issues with a brand new computer

I'm having this issue as well.. Recently started for me.. I noticed my touch bar works fine when I click out of whatever I was typing and trying to enter an emoji.. Haven't tried restarting it much

Has anyone found a solution to this?

Yes, I had the same problem as you. I thought the problem was only on macOS Monterey 12.0 but when I upgraded to 12.1 the problem persisted. What an annoying experience, so far there is no way to fix it!