Touch bar blank

Istrate_Mihnea wrote:

Touch bar permanently blank!!! HELP

Hello!

Yesterday for reasons unknown to me, the touch bar went black and has been black ever since. No applications makes it come back. Restarted it, did't work. Did the Activity Monitor “Touch Bar agent” kill, didn't exist... Did Terminal "pkill "Touch Bar agent" and "killall ControlStrip" - none worked.

Does any one know how to turn it back on? I hate the inability to control the brightness and volume from the keyboard, but most of all I have lost Escape!!! I have tried to Reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac

How to reset NVRAM on your Mac but still nothing worked.

<MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.6 >

You do not make it clear if this is Intel or M1 ...?

If it is M1— No SMC or NVRAM on the M1 SoC.

The best you can do if you have an issue— equivalent Shut down, close the lid 30 secs+ , reboot as normal.

If no resolve try SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support to sort anomalies.

if no resolve it typically indicates a hard ware issue.

In or out of warranty you can get a free over the counter 'Apple Service Diagnostics' test /assessment

Make an appointment for a "hardware issue"

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

Outside the USA

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