How to restart the Touch Bar on macOS

Restarting the Touch Bar will fix some errors such as the touch bar is not working, errors when performing application tasks.

The Touch Bar for the first time on the Macbook Pro version has helped users a lot when bringing many useful features, the features change corresponding to each application you are using. During use, the Touch Bar may have some errors such as not working, buttons do not respond, . When encountering some errors on the Touch Bar, the user can restart the process. Touch this, instead of having to restart the Mac or find repair tools. The following article will guide you how to restart the Touch Bar on macOS.

Instructions to fix Touch Bar not working

Step 1:

We open the Terminal application that is preinstalled on the Mac . We can search through the Spotlight search on the operating system or click on Finder> Applications> Utilities> Terminal.

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Step 2:

After opening the Terminal interface, we enter the following commands.

 sudo pkill TouchBarServer; sudo killall 'ControlStrip'; 

Press the Return key to continue and the results shown as shown below.

Then we enter the password of the Mac you are using to complete the operation and proceed to restart the Touch Bar. Note that any applications or processes in progress on the Touch Bar will not be retained. In the case of entering the password without displaying the characters, we just enter the password as usual and then press the Return key when finished. The system will reboot immediately and the Touch Bar driver will function as usual.

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