How to Remove Siri from Touch Bar on MacBook Pro

How to Remove Siri from Touch Bar on MacBook Pro

Some Mac users may find the Siri button on Touch Bar to be less than useful, and some may accidentally hit the Siri button and inadvertently trigger Siri when trying to hit another key on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar keyboard. If you dont want Siri so readily available on your Pro Mac for whatever reason, you can remove Siri from the Touch Bar on a Mac. Note that by removing Siri from Touch Bar on MacBook Pro you are not or otherwise getting rid of Siri, youre only removing the Siri button on the Touch Bar itself. Siri can still be used by any other Siri summoning method. This is obviously only applicable to Mac hardware with the Touch Bar screen: The change is immediate but if for some reason it doesnt take effect you can or otherwise unresponsive to your settings changes. Remember this only removes Touch Bar button from the keyboard, you will still be able to access Siri from the menu bar on the Mac, or a keyboard shortcut, but it will no longer be on the touch bar hovering above the delete key on Touch Bar Pro models. You can customize other options in the Touch Bar and Control Strip through settings on the Macs equipped with the function key replacement screen. There is no way to remove the Touch Bar from a MacBook Pro (well, aside from simply not ordering a Touch Bar Mac to begin with), but customizing it so its better suited to your needs when youre looking down at your fingers to hit the little touch bar buttons and screen can be helpful to many users.