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It's a pity because holding and sliding the Touchbar to change the volume and brightness using the touch bar is much faster and more accurate than pressing buttons N times.

There's a lot of good customisation options for the Touchbar if you use a third party tool like BetterTouchTool. It's Apple's loss to not give the user full control of it in the first place.

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It really wasn’t, though; you could always hold down modifier keys like Option for really precise volume adjustments, for example. And since these keys can be found by feeling for them, it was a lot easier to just memorize how to tweak settings. I for one will never miss the Touch Bar.

Adjusting the volume on the touchbar for me is very stressful. I have to look down and aim very carefully to find the button. The buttons still don’t make sense to me, I know there’s a visual indication when I’m muted, but there’s also a button to mute, and I’m not sure what I’m looking at. Then I have to tap and wait until I have visual confirmation that I have the grabber. Then I can adjust and hope I don’t confuse the trackpad by moving my finger at slightly the wrong angle. Then I have to pray that it doesn’t crash the touchbar, which seems to happen ~50% of the time.

Adjusting volume on my new MBP has been a nightmare compared to my old MBA.

I actually added the volume control to the menu bar because, while slower to operate, that seems less likely to crash.

You don't have to tap the touchbar, you can just hold and slide it. It's easier to make both large and precise movements with your fingers.

I just like it. Maybe it's because I can find the button in the touchbar without looking, but I don't really understand why increasing the volume in their laptop so very stressful for some people.

The delay is awful though. I slide my finger, and then the slider takes a full second to animate over to the right position. If I try to slide it back, the thing jumps around like a crazed monkey. All the while the volume goes up to ear melting levels and back down again while I’m frantically trying to control it.

It’s like riding a mechanical bull.

If the latency were something under a second it might be reasonable, but it’s not.

Can you do it without looking though? I can adjust my MBP volume without opening my eyes if I'm using it to play podcasts when trying to sleep.

We moved from a brightness and sound ui that can be operated by touch and feel alone to one that required a context switch.

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