If you’re like me and use the Escape key often throughout the day, you may find the digital Touch Bar escape key to be a challenge particularly when it’s not always visible or available without toggling a few buttons on the screen first. Want a real tactile Escape button on the Mac keyboard? Rarely, the Touch Bar can also freeze and become unresponsive, in which case forcing Touch Bar to relaunch should resolve such a problem. (Demonstrated above with native Touch Bar and with the app Touche which can demo the feature on screen as well, which makes it a bit easier to explain) Escape key is not showing up at all, Touch Bar is acting weird? This will reveal the Escape key you might expect to see: Or hitting the “Cancel” button to close the Touch Bar options: This should make the “Esc” key visible again.įor example, hitting the “X” button to close the app strip control strip: If the Touch Bar “Escape” key is not currently visible, you likely need to press the “(X)” button, or the “Exit” button, the “Done” button, or the “Cancel” button to exit out of a current Touch Bar screen to return to where the standard Escape key would be shown. If you can’t see the Escape key on the Touch Bar, it’s likely because the Touch Bar is in some secondary menu option, whether it’s the control strip or an app specific Touch Bar menu.
Hit the digital “ESC” button on Touch Bar to EscapeĪccessing the new Escape key on Touch Bar is usually just a matter of tapping “Esc” when it appears on the Touch Bar screen, but sometimes it is not displayed on the MacBook Touch Bar.Įscape key not visible on Touch Bar? Try this
We’ll discuss using the Escape key on the Touch Bar of a Mac, and also how to make it appear if the Escape key is not visible for whatever reason.