When I click on Control Center in the menu bar, it shows for less than a second and then disappears, rendering it unusable. The same thing happens with Focus. Every other item in the menu bar works correctly, including third-party apps. Just updated to Tahoe yesterday.
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Original Title: MacBook Pro Control Center unusable, disappears
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.0
Have you shut down and restarted more than once since your upgrade(?)
Control Center is one of those things I never use— however it seems to be working without issue on my macOS 26
Try making changes to Settings
Change Control Center settings on Mac
To trouble shoot further you can:
—A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
This test will tell you if third party interference; most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
***wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries— connect the charging cable, this will make the wired keyboard successful Safe Boot your Mac.
unplug all non-essential peripherals when testing
compare
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
Call Customer Support (800) MY–APPLE (800–692–7753)
or on line https://getsupport.apple.com/
or call AppleCare Support at 1-800-APLCARE (800-275-2273)
Outside the USA—Contact Apple for support and service by phone
See a list of Apple phone numbers around the world.
Contact Apple Support - Apple Support
the only other thing I can think of right off— turn off some of the other features and compare your results(?)
Desktop & Dock
Have you shut down and restarted more than once since your upgrade(?)
Control Center is one of those things I never use— however it seems to be working without issue on my macOS 26
Try making changes to Settings
Change Control Center settings on Mac
To trouble shoot further you can:
—A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
This test will tell you if third party interference; most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
***wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries— connect the charging cable, this will make the wired keyboard successful Safe Boot your Mac.
unplug all non-essential peripherals when testing
compare
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
Call Customer Support (800) MY–APPLE (800–692–7753)
or on line https://getsupport.apple.com/
or call AppleCare Support at 1-800-APLCARE (800-275-2273)
Outside the USA—Contact Apple for support and service by phone
See a list of Apple phone numbers around the world.
Contact Apple Support - Apple Support
the only other thing I can think of right off— turn off some of the other features and compare your results(?)
Desktop & Dock
allenmoray wrote:
Thank you, I’ll try some of that. I did try the reset button, but it acts just like the other problem - it shows for a second then disappears.
I would easily be tempted to re-install the macOS on top of your existing macOS and see it sorts the issue.
How to reinstall macOS
Recovery (both M1/M2/M3/M4 and Intel) — How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support
allenmoray wrote:
Control Center worked fine in Safe mode. But, again was finicky in regular use. I ended up erasing the drive and reinstalling everything from a backup and now all works fine.
Good computing allenmoray ! Appreciate the feedback on your resolve.
Control Center worked fine in Safe mode. But, again was finicky in regular use. I ended up erasing the drive and reinstalling everything from a backup and now all works fine.
allenmoray wrote:
When I click on Control Center in the menu bar, it shows for less than a second and then disappears, rendering it unusable. The same thing happens with Focus. Every other item in the menu bar works correctly, including third-party apps. Just updated to Tahoe yesterday.
there is a Reset Control Center option:
Thank you, I’ll try some of that. I did try the reset button, but it acts just like the other problem - it shows for a second then disappears.
MacBook Pro Control Center became unusable and disappeared after updating to macOS Tahoe
