Some MacBook Pro owners who have a model with Touch Bar may sometimes experience an issue where the Touch Bar becomes stuck on a “Touch ID to Log In” screen, often showing a Safari icon, even when Safari is not currently active.

Tapping the ‘Cancel’ button on the Touch Bar has no effect, and the “Touch ID to Log In” message continues to appear. You can try placing your finger on the Touch ID sensor to log in (assuming you're comfortable authorizing a login without knowing exactly what it's for), but this usually doesn’t make the message disappear from the Touch Bar.

However, there's a straightforward way to resolve this problem. Fixing a stuck “Touch ID to Log In” message on the Mac Touch Bar can be done quickly by following these steps.

Fix “Touch ID to Log In” Stuck on Mac Touch Bar with Safari Icon

The solution involves restarting the Touch Bar process:

1. Launch Activity Monitor on your Mac. You can find it in the /Applications/Utilities folder or open it via Spotlight by pressing Command Spacebar and typing Activity Monitor then Enter.

2. Use the search bar in Activity Monitor and type 'touch'.

3. Locate “TouchBarServer” in the list, then click the (X) quit button in the Activity Monitor toolbar.

4. Confirm by clicking “Force Quit” to restart the Touch Bar process.

The Touch Bar will briefly turn black before returning to normal operation. The persistent “Touch ID to Log In” prompt should also vanish.

After refreshing, the Touch Bar should function normally again, whether it’s configured to show the Expanded Control Strip, standard F keys like F1, F2, F3, or the default App Controls mode that changes based on the active application.

What you’re essentially doing here is force quitting the background app responsible for managing the Touch Bar, which manually refreshes it. This is a useful troubleshooting step whenever you encounter issues with the Touch Bar on a MacBook Pro. While restarting the Mac could also help, force quitting TouchBarServer directly addresses the issue more efficiently.

It’s unclear exactly why the Touch Bar occasionally gets caught on the “Touch ID to Log In” screen in Safari (or other apps), but in Safari’s case, it might be due to a tab or window requesting a login that was previously saved in iCloud Keychain, now stuck in a loop or repeatedly sending login prompts. A quick forced restart of the TouchBarServer resolves the issue swiftly.

Have you found this method effective in removing the stuck ‘Touch ID to Log In’ notification in Safari? Or did you discover another fix? Share your experiences in the comments below.

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