Apple’s new 13 and 15-inch MacBook Pros come outfitted with Touch Bar, an OLED display strip in place of the physical function keys at the top of your keyboard. Touch Bar automatically updates its graphics dynamically based on what you’re doing and apps that you’re using, giving you one-tap access to common features and shortcuts on your Mac.
What a handy feature to use, why relegate Touch Bar to displaying the function keys you rarely use? One reason I can think of right now: exams, as reported by 9to5Mac, North Carolina has been sent a notice to Bar Exam applicants that anyone using the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar will be required to disable the Touch Bar before entering the exam room.
In this tutorial, we'll teach you how to turn off Touch Bar on MacBook Pro, you can have the ability to configure it to show traditional function keys or general media controls instead of the per-app shortcuts. You can't actually disable the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro, but you can set customizations in place that will temporarily disable contextual tools.
1. Click on the Apple menu icon in the upper left corner of the screen.
2. Open System Preferences in the drop-down menu.
3. Click on Keyboard.
4. Click on the Keyboard tab.
5. Under Touch Bar Shows, click the drop-down menu and select Expanded Control Strip.
Touch Bar will show buttons for common features including Volume, Brightness, Mission Control, Launchpad, and Siri. To switch Touch Bar to showing function keys, just simply hold the Fn key on your keyboard (Note: If nothing happens when you hold the Fn key, be sure that “Press Fn key” in System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard is set to show function keys).
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