Emojis not working

[Smoovejayy]

For anyone with a new touch bar MacBook Pro, have you run across the emojis on the touch bar not working? I keep pressing on them and nothing happens, even after a reboot. Don't tell me I already broke it...

Also, not that I really care about emojis but it is a function that does not work.

 

[Mcdevidr]

Should have gone with the 15 inch man.

 

[Uravggf]

For anyone with a new touch bar MacBook Pro, have you run across the emojis on the touch bar not working? I keep pressing on them and nothing happens, even after a reboot. Don't tell me I already broke it...

Also, not that I really care about emojis but it is a function that does not work.

*bump* I'm having the same issue with my 13" pro.

 

[Smoovejayy]

*bump* I'm having the same issue with my 13" pro.

My AV program (Webroot) was interfering with that specific function - no other function. I shutdown the program and picking emojis worked again. See which program may be causing interference.

 

[nthom828]

Yeah man, whenever I'm specifically in iMessage (which is where I would use the Emoji's the most, ironically), the Emojis do not work. The touch-bar just goes blank. I have to click out of the application and re-enter for the touch-bar to even turn back on. I also have the 13" MacBook Pro.

 

[Dydegu]

Yeah man, whenever I'm specifically in iMessage (which is where I would use the Emoji's the most, ironically), the Emojis do not work. The touch-bar just goes blank. I have to click out of the application and re-enter for the touch-bar to even turn back on. I also have the 13" MacBook Pro.

That happens to me on the 15".

 

[Sully]

That happens to me on the 15".

Same here. It's super annoying. The software on this machine seems like a beta release.

 

[jaceysmith]

For anyone with a new touch bar MacBook Pro, have you run across the emojis on the touch bar not working? I keep pressing on them and nothing happens, even after a reboot. Don't tell me I already broke it...

Also, not that I really care about emojis but it is a function that does not work.

Had same problem. Found a youtube comment with the following and it corrected it for me:

"Found that I mistakenly turned on a setting when setting up a zoom short cut. Select Apple menu () > System Preferences. Then click on Accessibility, select Zoom, and turn off Enable Touch Bar Zoom."

 

[Asianracer]

Had same problem. Found a youtube comment with the following and it corrected it for me:

"Found that I mistakenly turned on a setting when setting up a zoom short cut. Select Apple menu () > System Preferences. Then click on Accessibility, select Zoom, and turn off Enable Touch Bar Zoom."

I had the same problem. Your solution worked. Thanks for that!

 

[Benito]

Had same problem. Found a youtube comment with the following and it corrected it for me:

"Found that I mistakenly turned on a setting when setting up a zoom short cut. Select Apple menu () > System Preferences. Then click on Accessibility, select Zoom, and turn off Enable Touch Bar Zoom."

I'm having this problem, but I checked and do not have Enable Touch Bar Zoom checked off. Strange problem and really intrusive when trying to use Messages.

 

[Patcell]

This happens to me also in iMessage on my 2017 15" (macOS 10.12.6) intermittently. Very annoying. Only way to solve for me is a reboot; closing and reopening iMessage doesn't help.

 

[rachel_apple]

So I somewhat MAYBE temporarily fixed mine by changing "KEYBOARD PREFERENCES".." click "PRESS Fn key to then drop down option of ==EXPAND CONTROL STRIP ===rather than the other option of show F1, F2, etc Keys. Lo and behold, the emoji keys are working again. Try it if you want.

Let's see if my emoji will disappear on me again. ✌☺️❤️

 

[Kate krieg]

So I somewhat MAYBE temporarily fixed mine by changing "KEYBOARD PREFERENCES".." click "PRESS Fn key to then drop down option of ==EXPAND CONTROL STRIP ===rather than the other option of show F1, F2, etc Keys. Lo and behold, the emoji keys are working again. Try it if you want.

Let's see if my emoji will disappear on me again. ✌☺️❤️

Wow, after half an hour of searching this actually fixed it and the emoji returned to my control bar!
I found that my keyboard preference was already set to ==expand control strip== and only when I set it to the “touch bar shows” to ==app controls with control strip== did it start working. It makes sense now.

 

[lambertjohn]

Should have gone with the 15 inch man.

Why? Because you say so?? He's not you; he bought what works for him, as did millions of other people who own a 13" MBP. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[briannaflorian]

So I somewhat MAYBE temporarily fixed mine by changing "KEYBOARD PREFERENCES".." click "PRESS Fn key to then drop down option of ==EXPAND CONTROL STRIP ===rather than the other option of show F1, F2, etc Keys. Lo and behold, the emoji keys are working again. Try it if you want.

Let's see if my emoji will disappear on me again. ✌☺️❤️

This worked for me! Just got my 2017 13' MacBook Pro & this fixed my emoji problem! Thank you so much!