Sonoma: Macbook Pro (M1 2020) Touch Bar is not working after update (Flickers during restart then once logged in, it disappears)

This morning I had 16" 2019 Intel MacBook Pro with a perfectly fine TouchBar. I updated to Sonoma a few hours ago and since then have not been able to get the TouchBar to light up. It does work, as I can kinda guess where the icons should be and adjust the Mac's brightness and volume, but the TouchBar remains pitch black. I also tried the SMC reset, the PRAM reset and the Kill commands in the terminal, but nothing has worked.

So no, I believe it is not a hardware issue, cause it was perfectly fine just before updating the OS.

Perhaps there are not enough users with this issue for Apple to take notice, which makes me wonder if it is either a "chance" or lottery thing during Sonoma's installation process, or a rare combination of factors that only a small group of users share, or if indeed this is affecting all TouchBar users under Sonoma but only a few are posting about it. If that were the case, it is a major fail that a heavily touted functionality like the TouchBar is crippled by an OS update that remains unfixed as long as it has.

Same Issue !! After updating to Sonoma: Macbook Pro (M1 2020) Touch Bar is not working , flickering green light all the time.Initially i thought it is hardware issue but after seeing the comment here everyone facing this issue after sonoma update.

@apple Please resolve this issue , this is not expected.

I am also experiencing this issue and sometimes have troubles booting up the laptop. Also on MBP m1 2020 with 14.5 (23F79). Don't really know if it's the physical damage of the touchbar or just a software glitch. It's really annoying cause I can't boot up the system for a while. Did you try switching it off and on via terminal? killall -STOP "ControlStrip" / kill -CONT pidnum

Curious if you've tried to personalize the Control Strip in the settings to remove all the elements of your Touch Bar? I believe that should work since the Touch Bar would be empty.

I have written the details on how to do that in this blog post.

Keep us updated!

I have the exact same model and I'm having the same issue. I hope they can fix it asap.

Try this to reset the SMC of your Mac

Make sure that your Mac is plugged into power, then take one of these actions. 

• Restart: Choose Apple menu  > Restart.
• Or shut down: Choose Apple menu  > Shut Down. Then press the power button on your Mac to turn it on again.

If this is not working, please boot your Mac in the safe mode to see if the issue persist

1. On your Mac, choose Apple menu  > Shut Down.
2. Wait for your Mac to shut down completely. A Mac is completely shut down when the screen is black and any lights (including in the Touch Bar) are off.
3. Press and hold the power button on your Mac until “Loading startup options” appears.
4. Select a volume.
5. Press and hold the Shift key, then click Continue in Safe Mode.
6. The computer restarts automatically. When the login window appears, you should see “Safe Boot” in the menu bar.

If it does not persist in the safe mode, it is caused by an external piece of software, you might want to evaluate the software you've installed on your Mac.

For your question if this is a hardware error caused by Sonoma, I want to stress that correlation is not always causality. What I want to say with that is that the error might have occurred after updating to Sonona, it is not yet proven that it is Caused by the update to Sonoma.

same here

Has Apple come out with a fix for this??? I am also having the same issue once I updated my MacBook Pro 2020 to Sonoma....

Did anyone find a solution or heard back from Apple? Help would be appreciated 🫠

I have a 2019 Macbook Pro with an Intel Chip and this didn't work with me. Touch Bar is not working at all.

I have the same issue, MBP 2019, Sonoma 14.3.

Same issue here - MB pro M1. My MB also crashes daily with Sonoma 14.3....

me too i tried every method and still it wont work

apparently, i have an apple silicon computer w/ an "apple m2"' chip & the only instructions of resetting the smc is to just simply restart the computer ....which doesn’t work & has never worked for the touch bar issue. i've also gone to multiple genius bars at multiple different apple store locations just to be gaslit love that for me

I just had to erase my whole computer with a support tech because I decided to update to Sonoma last week. To say I’m irate would be an understatement. We tried everything, we couldn’t downgrade to Ventura without erasing everything. All my M2 customizations GONE. I don’t have time for this.