Has anyone had freezes with their 16" macbook pro touchbar? I've had mine freeze on me a few times already and its been with me for only 3 days. You think this is a bug with Catalina that comes with the MBP? or should i just get it replaced?
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16" MBP touchbar freezes
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No issue with mine.
How does it freeze? And is there any association to the application you are running?
How does it freeze? And is there any association to the application you are running?
Hi, I have the same problem with a touchbar with two MacBooks. The first was replaced, the second was sent yesterday, and again the friezes. Apple advised me to reset SMC and NVRAM. Try to reset them, if it doesn't help, ask for a replacement. Do you also have only part of the touchbar does not work?
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I often do not work only the right part of the touchbar, where the volume switch. Does not work in Safari, telegram and many other places. Helps reload this app. But this is not often, once a day.
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I often do not work only the right part of the touchbar, where the volume switch. Does not work in Safari, telegram and many other places. Helps reload this app. But this is not often, once a day.
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It freezes when you listen to music and want to make it quieter or louder. When you listen to music on YouTube (Safari) or when you listen to music in another app(telegram)
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I have the same issue with my new 16". My Touch Bar seems to freeze when I watch YouTube videos in Safari and go to adjust the volume from the Touch Bar. Its intermittent, happens roughly once every 3-5 days. I can't reproduce it on demand. I figured it was just a Catalina software bug.
Freezes after waking up from sleep or sometimes when i need to change volume. only the volume/brightness controls freezes.
Yep, mine did it a few times. Didn't identify a pattern and it wasn't a deal breaker (as I'm not a fan of the TB anyway). Was probably the only bug I encountered in my 4-5 weeks of trialling.
Ye it has been happening to me. You can reset it from the terminal with the following command so that you don't have to restart the Mac:
Code:
killall ControlStrip
I have had it with my 2016 13" MBP a number of times, and once so far on the 16". It's not a hardware defect and it's not limited to the 16" by any means. It's just a bug (albeit a very annoying one).
Were there any macOS updates that you installed that could have fixed this? Or maybe some apps that you've uninstalled? Or did it just stop happening on its own?
My 2016 MBP that I mentioned above has only ever been on Mojave and still has the issue. But it's a very intermittent thing so it's hard to track.
I've had freezes on 15.1, none on 15.2, and one on 15.3. I just keep filing bug reports in hopes they can track it down.
A good way (at least it used to be unless they fixed it) to duplicate it was to use the emojis in the Touch Bar when using iMessage. This would frequently cause crashes in the Touch Bar for me.
I haven't had it in awhile so it may have been fixed.
