Tailor the Touch Bar

THE TOUCH BAR IS NOT ONLY CONTEXTUAL, BUT ALSO CUSTOMISABLE.

The new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar puts contextual shortcuts at your fingertips without you having to recall key combos that trigger menu items.

In the Keyboard prefs pane, you can set the bar to display appspecific controls on the left and an initially collapsed Control Strip of system features on the right, or devote the bar to one or the other; based on that setting, the next one down sets the bar to show app controls, the full Control Strip or numbered function keys when Fuction is held down.

Click Customise Control Strip to set the shortcuts the strip contains. Tap the arrow button on the strip to switch between editing its short and expanded states.

In the Keyboard pane’s Text tab, you can stop typing suggestions appearing in the bar for all apps. While in an app, choose ‘View > Customise Touch Bar’ to find an option to disable suggestions only for that one, and sometimes additional shortcuts you can add to the bar.

THE NEW MACBOOK PRO’S TOUCH BAR PUTS CONTEXTUAL SHORTCUTS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.