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Touch Bar Keyboard

Does your new MacBook Pro Keyboard keep breaking?
Are you out of warranty?
Can you not only use external keyboards?

Add a fully functional keyboard to your touch bar!
No thinness lost, it's the perfect solution!

Touch Bar Keyboard Open Icon Touch Bar Keyboard Keys

If you want to quit Touch Bar Keyboard, like if you bought a MacBook Pro 2015, it can be quit through the menu bar.

Touch Bar Keyboard Menu Bar Icon

Note: Touch Bar Keyboard does require accessibility features to send keys. It will ask for these permissions when launched. Below is screenshots showing how to accept these permissions.

Open System Preferences Alert Allow Touch Bar Keyboard Accessibility Features

Q & A

Q: How can I use this on my non-Touch Bar MacBook?
A: This link should help.

Q: How come the keys don’t repeat when you hold them down?
A: How come your keys don’t work at ALL when you hold them down?

Q: Why did you do this?
A: "I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." - Frank A. Clark

Q: Can this be submitted to the App Store?
A: Nope. It uses private API to put a Touch Bar Item in the System Tray Touch Bar Group.

Author

Ruben Nic
@RubensSandwich

Credit

mikicon - Icon touch bar by mikicon from the Noun Project

Alexsander Akers - Private API usage

License

Touch Bar Keyboard is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

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