Apple - Keyboard shortcut for powering down MacBook Pro with Touch Bar?

  1. In System Preferences → Mission Control

    • Change "Show Desktop" to F10
    • Change "Show Dashboard" to F11
  2. In System Preferences → Keyboard, open App Shortcuts.

    1. Click + to add a new shortcut.
    2. Leave Application as "All Applications".
    3. In Menu Title enter exactly this phrase (without quotation marks): "Shut Down…"
    4. Click cursor in the Keyboard shortcut field, then on keyboard hold "fn" key then select "F12" on Touch Bar
  • Holding "fn" key and selecting "F12" on Touch Bar will bring up the shutdown prompt.
  • Holding "fn" key and selecting "F10" will show desktop, holding "F11" will show dashboard.

"Have you tried using TOUCH ID as a substitute for Power Button in the regular shortcuts?"

holding down Touch ID will power off the computer, but it's a hard poweroff similar to holding down the power button on older machines for 5 seconds. I also can find no method for using the keyboard to initiate a normal shutdown. Bizarrely, the TouchBar has a sleep command that can be configured (see the bit about customize and expand here), but using modifier keys with the Touchbar sleep command like cmd or cmd-opt or cmd-opt-ctr will launch into the Energy Saver pane in System Preferences rather than sleep, restart or shut down..weird. Hopefully they'll add/fix this in a future software update. This is a BIG drawback for me as well in the new machine :(