Missing Touch ID Icon
The touch ID icon completely disappeared from system preferences, I have unplugged my iMac, restated it several times and nothing. What can I do?
iMac 24″, macOS 12.4
The touch ID icon completely disappeared from system preferences, I have unplugged my iMac, restated it several times and nothing. What can I do?
iMac 24″, macOS 12.4
Using the same Cable to Computer method and then try the below steps >>
1 - Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.
2 - Does the issue present in this mode ?
3 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.
4 - If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.
5 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.
Using the same Cable to Computer method and then try the below steps >>
1 - Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.
2 - Does the issue present in this mode ?
3 - Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.
4 - If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.
5 - If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.
You may need to reset your System Management Controller (SMC).
Before resetting SMC:
If that doesn't solve the Touch ID problem, do these:
Hope this helps!
Yes it is.
I have connected the cable that goes from the magic keyboard to the screen.
The Touch ID Applet reappeared in system preferences for a moment, however it didn't show me options to add a new finger print. Now is gone again.
This is the Touch ID Apple Keyboard on the Apple 24" M1 iMac ?
Is so, what happens when the Keyboard is connect via the Apple Supplied Cable?
Does the Touch ID Applet in System Preferences reappear ?
Missing Touch ID Icon