Black bar at the bottom of the display (MBP 2016)

[d3mueller]

Hey,

For the past couple of months, I've been having a small problem with my MacBook Pro. Whenever I turn it on there is a black bar at the bottom of the display where the pixels are mostly black. When I mouse over that area, there are strange pixel glowings.

Here's a short video demonstrating this:

https://imgur.com/a/VCYm8vq

It gets better the longer the display is on (it slowly shrinks and disappears after a couple of hours. But the next day it's back again).

Has anyone seen this before? I mean, they can't be "dead pixels" or something because the still work but I feel like the area ist slowly getting larger. I've been googling but haven't found this exact problem.

I'm not sure how bad it is. Does this mean my display is slowly giving up or something?

Thanks!

Kind regards
d3mueller

 

[DaakuMaujii]

Could be a case of the infamous Flexgate affecting MacBook Pros 2016 through 2018? Take it to an Apple store or authorised Apple repair center and see if they will repair your MacBook for free under the service programme (https://support.apple.com/13-inch-macbook-pro-display-backlight-service).

 

[d3mueller]

Could be related to that, yeah. Thank you, I will take it to the store

 

[Jakehouten98]

OP did you manage to get this fixed under the service programme? what was the issue in the end