How to kill and restart the Touch Bar / Control Strip on the new MacBook Pro ?

Julien Balmont
Zenchef’s Tech and Product Blog
1 min readSep 12, 2017

If ever your Control Strip starts to bug / fail, there’s an easy way to restart it

Open your terminal, and copy paste the following :

pkill "Touch Bar agent";
killall "ControlStrip";

You may have to sudo the command, in this case :

sudo pkill "Touch Bar agent";
sudo killall "ControlStrip";

You’re good to go now :)

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