How can I disable the touch bar on a hardware level?

Jcano wrote:

I have a 13 inch, M1 2020 MacBook Pro and the touch bar is going out.

About once a day my laptop gets a kernel panic and restarts.

After my machine comes back up, and shows the login screen my touch bar blinks bright white on and off until it stops. I'm able to log back in normally. My touch bar does not work consistently. Sometimes it does display, sometimes its just blank ( this is the case most of the time ), and sometimes it displays but the color is way off.

Is there a way to disable MacOs from using the touch bar? Its starting to really effect my productivity and makes me worry about all those kernel panics and my hard drive.

I suspect the restarts happen when my laptop goes to sleep. Some process is trying to update the touch bar and kernel panics.

When i look at the crash reports i see records like this. The values are corrupt or encrypted, or im missing some kind of decoder.

{"timestamp":"2024-05-29 20:51:56.77 -0700","bug_type":"58","os_version":"macOS 14.1.2 (23B92)"}

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...... its quite a lot of text, and its all mangled like the line above ^

I know of no way to disable Touchbar...

however— you can try Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support to sort issues on the SoC mac's

Login and compare your results. Reboot as normal to test.

no resolve you can try Revive How to revive or restore Mac firmware - Apple Support

User Diagnostics to test your Mac

Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac - Apple Support

Hardware issue take it in—

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

Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support

I am having the same issue with my macbook pro m1 2020.

As of now I tried, safe mode, resintalling macos, updating mac os, diagnostic, but nothing fixed the issue. Everytime the system goes to sleep, its crashes and restarts.

I have the same problem; when TouchBar is not responding well (for example after flickering and turning on it can go black, but sensors work) the Mac starts to restart as many times as it wants to fix that problem. I don't know how to solve that problem, tried all the things mentioned below by abluthra.