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Macbook pro 16 screen turns saturated after wake from sleep

I changed my MacBook three times, and all three times I had this screen problem (goes away when I check and remove the auto brightness button). Another problem with the touchbar, sometimes freezes on all three MacBook Pro 16. I'm sure these problems are related to Catalina. I have version 10.15.1 installed on all three MacBooks
The replacements were for other reasons
 
I disabled nightshift under the display settings and haven't had an issue with the color shifting in the last few days (fingers crossed). I'm hoping for a software fix from Apple. I guess I should amend my ticket with them so they can add it to their bug tracker.
 
Had the same problem on both my 16 inches, solution was to change the colour profile back to it's default lcd profile.

Only happened once on both machines since I changed the colour profile
 
To make it less painful have setup a KeyboardMaestro shortcut to sleep and wake the screen again.

Still annoying todo but KM helps.
 
It happened today a few times....but this time my LG 4K ultra fine was not hooked up. Anybody have it happen without an external display attached?
 
sat24 said:
Yup, seen that one too. I posted on the Catalina forum because I think (pray, hope) this is not specific to the 16". No responses yet there, which makes me worried that it may actually be 16" MBP related...:oops:

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-up-after-resuming-from-sleep-16-mbp.2214899/
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BTW, do you have 10.5.2 (Beta) installed? I only started getting this issue after I installed 10.15.2 beta4 (to test out a ghosting related theory).
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it can be 16’ related and software issue at the same time.. many drivers for the 16’ hardware is new. And first couple os upgrades it can be alot extra bugs that older machines dont have
 
Same problem here too on 10.15.3 Beta.
Seems to me like the MbP screws up the Display Color Profile when waking up. In my case clicking on another profile and re-clicking back on Colour-Lcd makes it work again. I submitted a bug report, but that's never got anything fixed in my experience...
 
Irish1996 said:
It happened today a few times....but this time my LG 4K ultra fine was not hooked up. Anybody have it happen without an external display attached?
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Mine has happened with both an external monitor hooked up and without one.
 
same here. it happened to me twice during the three weeks I've had my mbp16. not too bad
 
I spoke with Apple again and they are recommending I take the machine into the Apple store to have the hardware evaluated. I suppose I'll do that just to be safe, I scheduled an appointment for next week.
 
TL;DR - I use the Drifts screensaver to avoid the issue

I am experiencing this color changing issue upon returning from sleep and with quite a bit of testing I can reproduce it.

I have a new MBP Pro 16 that was setup from scratch, by that I mean it was not restored from any backup, I installed apps and transferred docs manually (wanted a fresh start)

I have True Tone active, Night Shift sunset-sunrise enabled and automatic screen dimming enabled.

The machine was fine for about a week then I noticed the issue happening? - when returning from sleep ( screen saver had run and after a time the screen shuts off per energy saver setting) the screen colors were way off, and when nightshift was active the effect was even worse. Almost like the color profile had switched (or got messed up) upon wake.

So I tried to track this down and found the following. The effect only happens for me if the all following things are true;
  1. The Photos app is running
  2. Any screensaver is enabled (except Drift)
  3. After inactivity the screensaver activates, then after a time the screen will shut off (as per energy saver setting)
  4. Then wake device (waking before 3 will not cause effect)
Interesting thing is Photos has to be running or the effect does not happen (regardless of selected screensaver), quitting Photos will restore colors. The first week I had the machine I was not running Photos all the time best I can recall which is why I think I did not have the issue from day one.

You have to let the screen saver run then let the screen turn off before waking or the effect will not happen.

The screensaver has to run , tired disabling screensaver and just letting the screen shut off and the effect will not happen

Drift is the only screensaver that will not produce the effect, its new to Catalina

Also interesting to note is that quitting photos will restore colors (as well as other methods mentioned in previous post) but if I have the color change then go to Screensaver prefs and click on the Drifts saver to select it the colors restore, selecting any other saver will not restore the colors.

After all this I’m pretty confident it’s not a hardware issue.

Anyway for me running the Drift screensaver mitigates the issue .. so far… fingers crossed - YMMV
 
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I've seen this maybe three times in the two months I've had the 16". Messing with Color Profiles fixes it for me as others have said.

Also have been having a lot of problems lately with my Ultrafine 5K not waking up after the screen goes to sleep. Happens more often than not. Not sure it is related, but... Started a couple of weeks ago. Only thing that fixes that is an unplug or reboot.
 
2017 Macbook 15" here with this same issue. Figured out it's nightshift. Have to switch to my computer glasses for a while until this gets resolved. Oh well.
 
Updated to 10.15.3 this morning and its happened probably 3 times already this morning, but this time only to my external monitor (BenQ PD3220U Display). Sleeping the screen and waking it resolves it every time.
 
Updated to 10.15.3 , MBP 16, and problem still occurs for me as I described before. Only happens if the Photos app is running and returning from screen off after a legacy screensaver has run. (Does not happen of the screensaver is the new Drift one) ..
 
Same problem here with Macbook 16.
10.15.2 & 10.15.3 - no difference.
Happens randomly when I wake up my Mac by opening the lid.
Same solution as the rest of you: sleep & wake up again or change a color profile.

Problem with 'green' tint around thin white lines - still persists too :(
It's definitely drivers issue, as 10.15.1 was just fine.

forums.macrumors.com

If you have a MBP 16 inch, could you help me with a display test? Thanks!

Just upgraded to 10.15.3. Sadly the bug persists 😭
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I haven't had the screen saturation issue since updating to 10.15.3. I know Apple updated AMD drivers in this update but they haven't confirmed which bugs were fixed. Fingers crossed!

Per: https://eclecticlight.co/2020/01/29/what-changed-in-the-catalina-10-15-3-update/

Bundled apps which have undergone significant change include:
  • Mail, substantial update to build 3608.60.0.2.5
  • Music, new version 1.0.3 replaces 1.0.2
  • Photos, substantial update to build 131.17.170
  • TV, new version 1.0.3 replaces 1.0.2
  • News, new version 5.3.1 replaces 5.3
  • Bluetooth File Exchange, new version 7.0.3 replaces 7.0.2
  • Boot Camp Assistant, minor update to build 6170.80.4
  • Dictionary, minor update to build 239.1.1
  • VoiceOver Utility, minor update to build 708.5.7.

Supporting components have also undergone widespread change:
  • Many graphics driver extensions, including substantial updates to most AMD support, to version 3.5.5, and Apple Intel support, to version 14.4.23
  • Thunderbolt drivers, updated to new versions
  • Apple Storage Drivers, updated to new version 489.80.2
  • APFS, updated from 1412.61.1 to 1412.81.1
  • SMBFS, updated from 3.4 to 3.4.1
  • AirPlay audio plug-in and others, minor update in build number
  • Bluetooth Setup Assistant, new version 7.0.3 replaces 7.0.2
  • Spotlight, minor update to build 2075.7
  • VoiceOver app, minor update to build 708.5.7
  • Bluetooth driver, updated to version 7.0.3
  • Many frameworks have been updated, including JavaScriptCore, OSLog, PDFKit, SwiftUI, and WebKit
  • Bluetooth preference pane, from version 7.0.2 to 7.0.3
  • Private frameworks, including AirPlay and Mail


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Still same bug with 10.15.3

Logged a bug with Apple and no contact, pretty pointless trying to deal with them
 
Catalina sucks.

The whole UI stutters, my monitor doesn’t wake up after sleep and if it does, the resolution is much lower and it’s limited to 30hz.

Can’t work on this 3300€ Maschine
 
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