Control Strip (Touch Bar) randomly disappears

This is going to be rather frustrating to people who are reading it because I have a tremendous lack of reasoning or proof for when/how this problem occurs but it seems to be that after roughly 15-20 minutes of use, the control strip will go completely black except for the siri icon located in the far right corner next to the touchID sensor. I would try switching applications to get it to reappear but nothing got it to show up until I went into system preferences>keyboard>customize control strip. Anyone else been seeing this issue?

MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016), macOS Sierra (10.12.1)

Posted on Nov 30, 2016 8:57 AM

53 replies

DORĆOL

Level 1

4 points

Feb 20, 2017 5:38 AM in response to Matt_Sanford

I have two accounts on my Mac. I have this issue only on second account that I created. Don't know does this have any connection with this issue.

eberhapa

Level 1

11 points

Mar 4, 2017 6:54 AM in response to Matt_Sanford

Same here. Only if connected to external display or after disconnecting from external display. Restarting the mac solves the problem. The fn trick only solves to problem until touchbar sleep.

YNaz

Level 1

10 points

Mar 12, 2017 3:44 PM in response to Matt_Sanford

Same here. If connected to external display using usb-c - DP monitor. Restarting the mac solves the problem. The fn trick only solves to problem until touchbar sleep.

YNaz

Level 1

10 points

Mar 13, 2017 5:45 PM in response to Matt_Sanford

Does macOS Sierra 10.12.4 beta 6 fix the problem?

YNaz

Level 1

10 points

Mar 27, 2017 4:51 PM in response to Matt_Sanford

Does new update 10.12.4 solves the problem?

Krischan

Level 1

8 points

Mar 28, 2017 6:09 AM in response to YNaz

Looks good so far with 10.12.4. I didn't experience these glitches in the last few hours.

afunix

Level 1

4 points

Mar 31, 2017 1:17 PM in response to Matt_Sanford

I have the same issue on 10.12.4

muglabs

Level 1

4 points

May 11, 2017 5:13 PM in response to Matt_Sanford

Same problem here. FN does not work. I already tried to reset the SMC and NVRAM, I have started the macbook several times and nothing. I hope that apple provides a fix for this error.

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Control Strip (Touch Bar) randomly disappears