When in Adobe Photoshop, users can use the Touch Bar to switch between layers, as well as perform various tasks including scrolling through the history of your changes. Of course, many, many more have been added to the Mac App Store sice Touch Bars became a thing. Here are just some of the third party apps that are compatible with Apple Touch Bar and what Touch Bar will offer when using these apps. To customise the Control Strip: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences > Keyboard > Customise Touch Bar.

Thankfully can still access all these controls, as well as customise the ones that you want to see all the time, whether that's volume, brightness or the keyboard backlight controls. You might not miss all the function keys but some are pretty useful, such as brightness controls. If you really miss those function keys, pressing and holding the FN key on the keyboard brings up access to the function keys on the Touch Bar so you won't need to miss them for long. To switch between changing buttons for the app you're in and the Control Strip, just tap the Touch Bar. You'll then be able to add, rearrange or remove buttons in the Touch Bar. Click 'Done' when you're finished. In an app, choose View > Customise Touch Bar. It's possible to customise the Touch Bar for some specific apps too. The Touch Bar can be customised, with plenty of options available, from adding a connecting to a server icon, to a Do Not Disturb one, or a new screenshot control icon.īy selecting 'Customise Touch Bar' in the 'View' menu on Finder, you can drag and drop the icons you want to the bottom of the screen and you will see the new icons appear drop on the Touch Bar straight away. The Touch Bar works with Keynote, Numbers and Pages, as you would expect, allowing you to complete a range of tasks from changing the colour of text, to skipping a slide and formatting text. You can use the Touch Bar to tap through your open Safari tabs and it will show you your favourites, enabling to you slide between the likes of Facebook and Google, with a quick touch opening up a saved site.Īn escape button will also appear on the Touch Bar, along with previous and next buttons, and a search bar, helping you navigate quickly. Similarly, if you use a third party messaging app like Telegram, you can quickly insert emoji or stickers into a message. Touch Bar also offers support for reactions in Messages, so you can give a quick thumbs up to an iMessage using the Touch Bar, for example. Within Mail, Touch Bar will show options including composing a message, replying and flagging, as well as selecting delete or moving a particular email to a specific folder.

When Mail or Messages is open, the Touch Bar will offer Quick Type options to help you write an email or message faster, format the text, and present you with emojis that you can scroll through using your finger.

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