Disable the TouchBar

TouchBar

#!/bin/bash

function enableTouchBar() {

	local presentationModeProperties="<dict><key>app</key><string>fullControlStrip</string><key>appWithControlStrip</key><string>fullControlStrip</string><key>fullControlStrip</key><string>app</string></dict>"

	defaults delete com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal
	defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeFnModes $presentationModeProperties
	
	launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.controlstrip.plist
	launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.touchbar.agent.plist
	launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.touchbar.user-device.plist
	pkill "ControlStrip"
	pkill "Touch Bar agent"
	pkill Dock
}

function disableTouchBar() {
	
	defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal -string fullControlStrip

	launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.controlstrip.plist
	launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.touchbar.agent.plist
	launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.touchbar.user-device.plist
	pkill "ControlStrip"
	pkill "Touch Bar agent"
	pkill Dock
}

{
	if [ "$1" == "enable" ]; then
		enableTouchBar
	elif [ "$1" == "disable" ]; then
		disableTouchBar
	else
		printf "\\nUsage:\\n\\tTouchBar enable\\n\\tTouchBar disable\\n\\n"
	fi
}

Note, System Integrity Protection must be disabled

Hi, recently I have to disable my touchbar as it flash all the time.
As I tried your gist, there are something wrong:

% ./disable_touchbar.sh disable                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     !6154
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.controlstrip.plist: Operation now in progress
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.touchbar.agent.plist: No such file or directory
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.touchbar.user-device.plist: No such file or directory

I am on macOS Catalina 10.15,
And the only thing I found related to touchbar in /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.* is
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.SpacesTouchBarAgent.plist.

Can you update your gist for this system version?
Thank you!

Absolute life saver

Hi, recently I have to disable my touchbar as it flash all the time.
As I tried your gist, there are something wrong:

% ./disable_touchbar.sh disable                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     !6154
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.controlstrip.plist: Operation now in progress
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.touchbar.agent.plist: No such file or directory
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.touchbar.user-device.plist: No such file or directory

I am on macOS Catalina 10.15,
And the only thing I found related to touchbar in /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.* is
/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.SpacesTouchBarAgent.plist.

Can you update your gist for this system version?
Thank you!

Same problem here... Anyone have any suggestions?

Those paths do not exist in Big Sur. However, the following seems to kill the Touch Bar server:

defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal -string fullControlStrip

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.touchbarserver.plist
launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.controlstrip.plist

pkill "ControlStrip"
pkill "Touch Bar 
pkill Dock

I don't know how to make the TocuhBar blank, however for me the point was killing the touch response, so this is good enough.

Those paths do not exist in Big Sur. However, the following seems to kill the Touch Bar server:

defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal -string fullControlStrip

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.touchbarserver.plist
launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.controlstrip.plist

pkill "ControlStrip"
pkill "Touch Bar 
pkill Dock

I don't know how to make the TocuhBar blank, however for me the point was killing the touch response, so this is good enough.

This also did work for me, under System Integrity Protection being disabled. However, if I restarted my machine to enable SIP, then it would not work anymore. So it seems I have to disable SIP all the time. Does anyone have a solution to this?

Those paths do not exist in Big Sur. However, the following seems to kill the Touch Bar server:

defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal -string fullControlStrip

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.touchbarserver.plist
launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.controlstrip.plist

pkill "ControlStrip"
pkill "Touch Bar 
pkill Dock

I don't know how to make the TocuhBar blank, however for me the point was killing the touch response, so this is good enough.

By the way, after a few trials, I found running launchctl remove com.apple.controlstrip before launchctl unload... could realize the effect to make TocuhBar blank.

works as expected but I get the following error messages.

OS: macOS 12.6.2 (21G320)
HW: MacBook Pro 2018 - Intel 8950HK

$>./TouchBar disable
Unload failed: 5: Input/output error
Try running `launchctl bootout` as root for richer errors.
Warning: Expecting a LaunchAgents path since the command was ran as user. Got LaunchDaemons instead.
`launchctl bootout` is a recommended alternative.
Unload failed: 5: Input/output error
Try running `launchctl bootout` as root for richer errors.

$>./TouchBar enable
Load failed: 5: Input/output error
Try running `launchctl bootstrap` as root for richer errors.
Warning: Expecting a LaunchAgents path since the command was ran as user. Got LaunchDaemons instead.
`launchctl bootstrap` is a recommended alternative.
Load failed: 5: Input/output error
Try running `launchctl bootstrap` as root for richer errors.

I'm having an issue where my Touch Bar flashes when certain conditions are met. I had expected that running disableTouchBar() would prevent that from happening, but interestingly the flashing issue still persists, despite running the script.

update: restarting touchbar related processes has solved the touchbar flashing issue. sudo pkill TouchBarServer, killall ControlStrip