Touch Bar not displaying Shortcuts and Quick Actions in Ventura

wesgir wrote:

The Touch Bar on my MacBook Pro (M1) is no longer showing Shortcuts and Quick Actions when I hold the function (fn) key. It used to work and I have verified that the settings are correct.

Currently, when I hold fn the Touch Bar goes blank.

Looks like this issue has been reported with past versions of macOS, but may have been resolved at those times in a software update:

• Quick Actions with Fn key not visible in … - Apple Community

• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252091662

I have tried numerous things (including a fresh install of the OS, because I needed to for a different reason) and nothing seems to work. I've tried restarting, recreating library files, stopping the Touch Bar process (both in Terminal and Activity Monitor), and more.

Has anyone else had this issue? If you were able to resolve it, what did you do?

Here are my current settings for reference:

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/be4d8f24-0d3a-4ee8-bca2-a793827b6c18

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/38fb0c38-dec3-4fde-a4e9-024fd0ac05ed

(Hopefully I chose the right device for this, I have multiple MacBook Pros. This is for the 13" M1)

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wesgir wrote:

I was able to verify that this issue also happens with my Intel MacBook Pro running Ventura.

All other Touch Bar / Control Strip features work fine; Quick Actions just aren't showing up when holding the fn key. The Touch Bar is responding to the key press, it just doesn't display anything (it goes blank/black).

you can file a bug report /submit your Apple Feedback here: Feedback - macOS - Apple

The current stable release of Ventura including bug fixes,  security updates  is macOS Ventura 13.2.1  

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