

One is just supposed to know to press in some magic spot? How is that better than a power key, which is self evident? Or presumably the touchbar thing works for power on, but its lack of visual or tactile feedback makes it all mysterious. Once powered off, one has to close the lid and reopen it to boot thing up. I still don’t know exactly where to press, even with the machine booted up-design insanity. Nor is it even obvious where one should press on the touchbar, since the touchbar was totally blank. When this hang arose, this was all very confusing because there was just a blank touchbar. I still cannot find any power key anywhere! No visual feedback, no tactile feedback, very poor explanation. Not only is the touchbar completely blank when the machine is off (very confusing, where does one press and for how long, etc?!), the touchbar is one long strip, with no power button to be seen! Also, this advice says nothing about powering *off* the Mac, so I missed it at first, But then finally guessing that it meant power on or off, I tried it: pressing and holding the right side of the touchbar did power it off. Press Touch ID (power button) to turn on your Mac.
MAC RESTART TOUCH BAR PRO
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2016) and MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports): The power button is adjacent to the Touch Bar and integrated with the Touch ID sensor.
MAC RESTART TOUCH BAR HOW TO
I found this non-obvious solution at Apple (what would I have done without another Mac?!) in How to turn on or turn off your Mac: The touchbar was blank and was unresponsive to anything the machine was hung and unusable with a blank screen, aside from that spinning icon thing. But it has no power button so I did not know how to forcibly power it off. I restarted the MBP and it hung with that spinning icon thing. MPG gets credit if you buy through those links.

all 13" Apple MacBook Pro 2016 models.

