Touch Bar Constantly Flickering

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Touch Bar Constantly Flickering

MacbookPro 2019, Touch Bar started flickering and won't stop.

I've been looking for answers to this issue and can't find anything helpful. I tried recommendations to force-quit it via terminal and other suggestions, but it just continues to flicker. 

Possible Fixes: SMC/NVRAM/PRAM or the Activity Manager

Resetting the SMC Reset the SMC of your Intel Mac or resetting NVRAM/PRAM Reset NVRAM on your Mac does not seem to help for to long before the flickering starts again.

Nor does quiting the Control Strip or Touch Bar Server in the Activity Monitor.

All current resolves do help for the short periods of time but there are none which fixes the issue.

Possible Fix: Update your OS

I honestly do not want to update my mac as apple has presented that as one of the options. Due, to this flickering annoyance was initially caused by an update. Until more posts turn up about a specific OS update resolving this issue.

Can I turn it off? Why is it suddenly flickering? Why does Apple not provide more lasting resolves for issues these days?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Jul 9, 2023 10:53 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 10, 2023 9:08 AM in response to AU-FUA

Try starting in Safe Mode. Does the flicker also occur in Safe Mode? If it does, then I'd suggest it is probably a hardware issue, and you should take your mac in to service.

If the issue does not occur in Safe Mode, but reappears when you restart normally, then it may be caused by some sort of software conflict.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

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BobHarris

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Jul 10, 2023 9:32 AM in response to AU-FUA

My observations at work is that when the Touchbar does this, the Mac requires hardware repair.

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Answer 3

AU-FUA Author

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Jul 10, 2023 11:02 PM in response to BobHarris

On end. The touchbar only started constantly flickering when updated my OS to Monterey.

Previously High Sierra. And previously on High Sierra. I did have a screen flicker issue.

To be honest, I'd prefer the screen issue compared to the touch pad flicker since the touch bar seems to a fully white a NIN transparent-ish constant glitch pattern with a flicker beat (flitch or glicker?) against a full black and space grey aesthetic

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Jul 26, 2023 10:27 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

EtreCheck

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AU-FUA Author

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Jul 26, 2023 10:28 AM in response to AU-FUA

MacBook TouchBar Flicker Control

December 2021 edition

https://medium.com/macoclock/macbook-touchbar-flicker-fix-bafa754aae13

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Answer 6

Jul 26, 2023 1:57 PM in response to AU-FUA

Does the procedure described in the article remediate the problem in your mac?

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Answer 7

Jul 26, 2023 2:03 PM in response to AU-FUA

There are some things of concern in the posted report. For one thing, you have disabled system security, which is a risky move.

The report is a bit hard to read because a lot of extra Â characters appear at the beginning of lines. To this day, I have seen this many times but have yet to ascertain why this happens only for some people posting their Etrecheck reports. Did you do Share Report->Copy and then pasted in the text box to post?

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Touch Bar Constantly Flickering

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