How to Delete Touch Bar Data from MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

How to Delete Touch Bar Data from MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

The Touch Bar equipped MacBook Pro stores additional data for the Touch Bar and Touch ID sensor that is not erased by default if you format a Mac or reinstall MacOS system software. Thus, if you want to completely clear out and erase all Touch Bar data, you will need to manually intervene via a multi-step process to clear out Touch Bar specific data from those MacBook Pro models. This is obviously only applicable to Macs with the Touch Bar, and its probably only necessary if you plan on erasing the Mac, reinstalling MacOS, , or some other similar situation where you either want all personal data removed from the Mac, or you are going to be selling a Mac or transferring ownership, or even sending it in for service. Aside from those situations there is likely no need to ever delete or erase Touch Bar data on the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Want to clear out all Touch ID information and configuration data from a Mac with Touch Bar? Heres how to that: Once the Mac has restarted the Touch Bar data will be removed. And yes you must boot the Mac from Recovery Mode (or ) to accomplish this task, thus you may want to do it before or performing other similar maneuvers to or to completely erase the computer. Note this is erasing Touch Bar data, it is NOT and thus is really not a troubleshooting step, though itll undoubtedly be used as one for some unusual Touch Bar situations. For those wondering, if you try to run this command on a Mac that does not have a Touch Bar it will not work, because there is no Touch Bar. You will get an error like the following: xartutil: ERROR: this hardware does not support the xART recovery service Many Mac users likely dont know that the Touch Bar has separate data storage that is Touch Bar specific, but Apple confirms this with an article