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I made peace with the touch bar after I found out it could be customized, and I removed most of the default functions and put in a couple that I like having han

I made peace with the touch bar after I found out it could be customized, and I removed most of the default functions and put in a couple that I like having handy, including the ability to lock the screen at a touch.

TheJoeMan 3y ago
I agree, I love my MBP 2017 touchbar layout and frankly forgot I had customized it to “how it should have come” so long ago. Borrowed someone’s stock MBP and was like oh this is all wrong. I understand all the brouhaha over the esc key, but you’ll have to pry the wonderful volume and brightness sliders from my fingers. Repeatedly spamming volume up seems so archaic.
dangus 3y ago
PSA to anyone who doesn’t know yet: you can lock the screen by clicking the Touch ID button (at least, in the newest no-touch bar Macs). It can be used to both lock and unlock. I’m guessing your Touch Bar system can do this too but I have no way to try it. Sometimes Apple makes random little shortcut modifications when they change button layouts. Control Command Q also locks the screen. I used to have that combo as a fast habit. I jumped off the Touch Bar as soon as I could. I sorta miss the smooth volume and brightness adjustment but it’s not as good as having the keys be physical and always in the same place. No more looking down. If they could make a row of physical keys with little OLED screens and maybe a couple of customizable knobs and/or sliders that could be assigned to anything that might be a really useful concept. But the need to look down at the Touch Bar really killed its magic for me. The other thing you get on a modern Mac that’s arguably under-hyped is just the fact that the function keys are full size. It’s so much nicer.
- piperswe 3y ago
  The "Touch ID button" is just a power button - pressing it puts your laptop to sleep just like pressing the power button on a non-Touch ID one would.
  - dangus 3y ago
    Not on my M1 system. Maybe that was a change post-Intel. The screen doesn’t even shut off when I do it.

TheJoeMan 3y ago

I agree, I love my MBP 2017 touchbar layout and frankly forgot I had customized it to “how it should have come” so long ago. Borrowed someone’s stock MBP and was like oh this is all wrong. I understand all the brouhaha over the esc key, but you’ll have to pry the wonderful volume and brightness sliders from my fingers. Repeatedly spamming volume up seems so archaic.

dangus 3y ago

PSA to anyone who doesn’t know yet: you can lock the screen by clicking the Touch ID button (at least, in the newest no-touch bar Macs). It can be used to both lock and unlock. I’m guessing your Touch Bar system can do this too but I have no way to try it. Sometimes Apple makes random little shortcut modifications when they change button layouts. Control Command Q also locks the screen. I used to have that combo as a fast habit. I jumped off the Touch Bar as soon as I could. I sorta miss the smooth volume and brightness adjustment but it’s not as good as having the keys be physical and always in the same place. No more looking down. If they could make a row of physical keys with little OLED screens and maybe a couple of customizable knobs and/or sliders that could be assigned to anything that might be a really useful concept. But the need to look down at the Touch Bar really killed its magic for me. The other thing you get on a modern Mac that’s arguably under-hyped is just the fact that the function keys are full size. It’s so much nicer.

piperswe 3y ago
The "Touch ID button" is just a power button - pressing it puts your laptop to sleep just like pressing the power button on a non-Touch ID one would.
- dangus 3y ago
  Not on my M1 system. Maybe that was a change post-Intel. The screen doesn’t even shut off when I do it.