Macbook Pro Function Keys Touch Bar

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Show the function keys

The Touch Bar is an OLED strip positioned above the keyboard on the MacBook Pro. It replaces the function keys and adjusts depending on the app you are currently using. So, along with escape. Bring Back the Function Keys for Certain Applications. RELATED: How to Bring Back the Function Keys on a MacBook Pro With a Touch Bar. You might think that, with the Touch Bar, Apple has completely killed off the 'Function' keys (F1, F2, F3, etcetera.) But, you can bring back the function keys on your Touch Bar in two ways.

Press and hold the Fn (Function) key on your keyboard to see F1 through F12 in the Touch Bar.

You can also make the function keys appear automatically when you use specific apps:

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Keyboard.
2. Click Shortcuts at the top of the window, then select Function Keys from the list on the left.
3. Click the add button (+), then select an app and click Add. For each app that you add, the function keys will automatically appear in the Touch Bar whenever you're using that app.

Or use the onscreen keyboard

As an alternative to showing the function keys in the Touch Bar, you can use the function keys in the onscreen keyboard.

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Keyboard and complete one of these steps:
   • If you're using macOS Big Sur, select 'Show Input menu in menu bar' in the Input Sources pane.
   • If you're using macOS Catalina or earlier, select 'Show Keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar' in the Keyboard pane.
2. Click the viewer icon in the menu bar, then choose Show Keyboard Viewer.
   
3. Click the Fn key in the onscreen keyboard to make it show all function keys.

Show the function keys when using Microsoft Windows

Press and hold the Fn (Function) key on your keyboard to see F1 through F12 in the Touch Bar.

You can also make the function keys appear continuously in the Touch Bar: Software to open pdf files in windows 10. Ps3 software emulation.

1. From the notification area on the right side of the Windows taskbar, click the up arrow to show hidden icons.
   
2. Click the Boot Camp icon , then choose Boot Camp Control Panel from the menu.
   
3. If you're asked whether to allow this app to make changes, click Yes.
4. Click the Keyboard tab.
5. Select 'Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys'.

Or use the onscreen keyboard

As an alternative to showing the function keys in the Touch Bar, you can use the onscreen keyboard:

1. From the Windows menu, select Windows Ease of Access.
2. Click On-Screen Keyboard.
3. Click the Fn key in the onscreen keyboard to make it show all function keys.

Learn more about the onscreen keyboard in Windows.

After the novelty of the touch bar (which is quite funky but I still hardly ever use) wore out, I started to notice that I did in fact miss having the function keys. Naturally one does not use the function keys for every application possible but where it became the most noticeable was working with applications like Microsoft Excel or even Windows in general being used to shortcut keys which we have engrained into muscle memory over the years for us PC users.

While it's not necessarily a hard thing to press the ‘fn' key at the bottom left of the keyboard to bring up the function key options on the touch bar in an application, it can get quite tedious when working on multiple things or numerous spreadsheet cells for quick edits and you know you're not doing it right when it's quicker to move your hand to a mouse and double click when compared to keyboard shortcuts. Apple install windows.

That being said, after a little bit of searching, I came across this instruction straight from the source an it works a treat.

How To Setup Function Keys on the Touch Bar:

System Preferences

In short, click apple in the top left and select system preferences then:

> Keyboard

> Shortcuts

> click on ‘Function Keys'

> Click on ‘+' to add an app

> Select the app you want to add function keys to.

Mac Touch Bar Boot Camp

If you want to add to multiple apps, you will have to do this process multiple times.

No need to restart computer or do anything fancy, you will find as soon as you click on the app, you should notice that the touch bar instantly shows the function keys. If it doesn't on first try, then maybe try quitting out of the app an load again.

Everyone will probably want this feature for different reasons for different apps but for me where I have found it most useful is for running the Parallels app which I use to run Windows 10 and excel where I'm used to working with formulas and needing function keys for quick edits to cells and the F2 button is used quite regularly.

Hope this helps and please leave some feedback if there are any other useful tips for the MacBook Pro with touch bar.

For more info check to the source from apple which has some other interesting bits of information of other ways to access the function keys:

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