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

I have exactly he same issue here! On my MacBook Pro M1.

Apple, please give us some actual human replies on this, or at least listen and try to work on the problem for us in your next software update????!!!

I genuinely feel like Apple's approach - to both its products and its customers - has gone downhill a lot since Steve Jobs passed away. The vision, excitement and human connection has been lost, leaving just the commercialism and profit margins.

(I would insert an 'eyes up to the heavens' emoji here. But I can't, because the Touch Bar won't let me. (angry face))

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.

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.

Hello oliwia146,

Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities. Upon review of your post, it seems that you are unable to access the Touch Bar emoji section. We can see why you’d want this taken care of, so let us help from here! Let’s start by reviewing the following article which may help: Use the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro. If the proper steps are being followed to use the emojis, please continue by testing to see when this behavior occurs.

First, put your Mac into safe mode and test. Booting into safe mode will disable any startup and login items from automatically opening, which can help us to isolate the source of the issue further. When you do this, you’ll see some unusual behavior from the display; this is to be expected. Please follow the steps in this article: How to use safe mode on your Mac. 

Next, let's see if this behavior persists in a second user account on your Mac. If you have a second account, please log into that and see how it works. If you don't have one you can use, please follow these steps to make a test account that can be deleted later: Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac.

Please let us know if you have follow up questions, so we can continue assisting. Take care!

grula wrote:

macOS Monterey, the emojis stopped showing up

I have started in safe mode, it worked once., however, the problem remains.

Try making some changes....

Customize the Touch Bar on Mac - Apple Support

as of today, with Apple updated to 12.3.1, the problem persists.

I tried every single hint in that thread, but the problem persists.

What is the timeline for Apple to solve this issue?

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'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!

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.

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.

I noticed that there was a new OS update today. Does anyone know if this issue was fixed? It started happening to me in late January, and aside from completely erasing and starting over, I can't think of anything else that might fix it.

It's very annoying and frustrating.

These ar good news! I must say that I had this problem with my 13'' MacBook with M1, which I just sent it back and traded since I had too many problems with it. But with my 15'' I am not having the same problem, nor with the Emojis, crashing, or the like.