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For me it hides the things I use all the time (media and volume controls) to make room for application specific controls that I never use. If it was more custo
by noneeeed 6y ago
For me it hides the things I use all the time (media and volume controls) to make room for application specific controls that I never use.
If it was more customisable I wouldn't mind it, but the apparant inability to force it to show me the things I actually want is annoying.
I can imagine there are some people for whom the application specific buttons are useful, but for me they are not worth it for what they displace.
- 1123581321 6y agoCheck out BetterTouchTool if customization is holding you back.
- imjared 6y agoNot sure if it's helpful for you but you can customize the behavior by going to your System Prefs > keyboard settings and toggling "Touch bar shows:". I did this on like day 2 of having my MBP for what sounds like the same reason you want to. The setting I have turned on is "Expanded control strip" and I never see any application-specific controls, only volume, brightness, etc.
- noneeeed 6y agoOmg, thank you. Somehow I'd missed that setting.
- fitzrocks 6y agoFYI you can customize it, and force it to always display certain controls. I had the exact same frustrations as you. Took me 10 mins digging into settings to figure it out. Now I have my touchbar constantly displaying all of the controls that are buttons on the Air (ie a completely over-engineered solution to get the same result)