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What is this touch bar icon?

bizzy045

bizzy045

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I sometimes have this item that shows up to the left of the brightness toggle, that is shaped like a circle with 4 bars (bar graph) in it. When I press it nothing happens. Anyone know what this is? Is this a bug?
 
fokmik said:
it does appear when you are looking to a video in safari for example?
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It just shows up randomly. I can switch from safari to calendar to mail. It's still there. It's like it's part of the default controls.
 
When you are playing a youtube video in Safari for example, you can use this button to control the video even if you're in some other app, very useful! :)
 
hootansharifian said:
When you are playing a youtube video in Safari for example, you can use this button to control the video even if you're in some other app, very useful! :)
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Can you explain? What can you control in a video and why does it show even when I'm not watching a video.
 
bizzy045 said:
Can you explain? What can you control in a video and why does it show even when I'm not watching a video.
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You can scrub through the video and play/pause it.

Hmm... That's weird, I only see it when I'm playing a video in the background. It's a bug maybe
 
I love you can scrub right thru youtube commercials with the touch bar. I assume that will be changed lol
 
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