Unresponsive Touch Bar Issues

[Cougarcat]

Anyone else experiencing unresponsive touch bar issues? Once in a while the touchbar will cease to recognize input. It doesn't freeze--it will still contextually update. I have to restart to make it work again. Even if I quit "Touch Bar Agent" in Activity Monitor, it won't come back.

I just want to be confident that this is a software thing, and not a more serious hardware issue.

 

[Sanpete]

I had a freeze, which resolved itself after a minute or so, but not what you describe.

 

[myscrnnm]

I had a freeze, which resolved itself after a minute or so, but not what you describe.

Same here. I have had the Touch Bar freeze on me once, but it was just stuck on the volume control. Would be interested to know if OP is using the 15" model.

 

[Cougarcat]

It's the 13". The last time it happened, I didn't bother restarting and it came back on its own somehow...eventually.

 

[SurajP]

The only way I have found to clear this issue is to log out or restart.

 

[Cougarcat]

The only way I have found to clear this issue is to log out or restart.

Are you up to date? I haven't experienced this issue since around 10.12.3.

 

[Benito]

Yesterday on a couple of occasions while using Messages the touchbar would fail to work. The touch bar would have the correct icons on it for Messages, but when I clicked on any of the icons the touch bar would go blank. It would keep doing that until I closed Messages and restarted. After a short while it would happen again.

 

[interessiert]

In a German review video the test device showed same failure (sometimes working, sometimes vanishing and not responsive) - after long discussions with Apple Support (guarantee) the whole MBP was replaced - so better contact support and start the replacement procedure...
payoff: at the day of arrival the old machine worked properly since weeks of failure