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macOS Tahoe Bug Causes Studio Display Flickering Issues

Have it with a Mini M2 Pro. Reading this I'm glad it's a bug so it can be fixed.

Connected directly from the Mac with original cable.
 
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Studio M4 Max + ASD. Definitely seeing this. Seems more prevalent during daylight hours. Happens when switching from light to dark windows, etc. For example, from this window I'm using right now to type this message to the iMessage app with a fairly dark wallpaper running.
 
Have the same issue here. MacBook Pro M1 + Studio Display. Flickring on and off throughout the day. Apple needs to address this.
 
Still to this day getting this happening on an iMac and a M4 MBA. Oddly, the Studio Display is the only one that doesn't have this problem.
 
Never have this happen until just now today. I am going through my annual photos sorting and cleanup and backup thing. Got photos app and finder open and first time ever I notice my display flicker. I have latest OS and M1 Mac Studio with Studio Display.
 
I had an extreme flickering event just now. It was on my LG monitor. My other external Innocn monitor and my laptop's monitor were not flickering. Only Safari had the problem. This is the first time I've ever seen it flicker on just my dog's picture as Safari's background image, before I visited any website. This is also the first time I've seen flickering on something other than a dark image. I restarted Safari and it improved quite a bit and eventually stopped.
 
Flickering/blinking on a relatively new MacBook Pro M4 here (no external display). Once every fifteen, twenty minutes, sometimes slightly more often. To be honest, if I hadn’t found this thread, I would just think that the screen is defective. I am not a specialist, but it just does not look like a software issue (which I hope it is!). Also, if it is a Tahoe bug, then too few people seem to report it.

The problem is that it’s not easily reproducible and I don’t know if I can just get somebody at an Apple store to stare with me at the screen for half an hour to prove this (the MacBook is still under warranty). Really stumped here (and the blinking is very annoying).
 
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Flickering/blinking on a relatively new MacBook Pro M4 here (no external display). Once every fifteen, twenty minutes, sometimes slightly more often. To be honest, if I hadn’t found this thread, I would just think that the screen is defective. I am not a specialist, but it just does not look like a software issue (which I hope it is!). Also, if it is a Tahoe bug, then too few people seem to report it.

The problem is that it’s not easily reproducible and I don’t know if I can just get somebody at an Apple store to stare with me at the screen for half an hour to prove this (the MacBook is still under warranty). Really stumped here (and the blinking is very annoying).
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You might be the first I’m seeing report the issue with the built in monitor. I think all others see the issue only on the external monitor. My ASD does it but the Mac’s screen is fine. You might have a hardware issue.
 
landyn said:
I’ve seen flickering occasionally with my M3 iMac over the past month and a half.
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jbuk72 said:
I don't have a Studio Display, but I have noticed a flickering on my MacBook Pro (M1 2020) and its most common when scrolling a document or webpage. I thought my display was dying, after a quick search I found a tip that simply said restart the laptop. It worked. Fixed the issue for about a week, then it slowly started to come back again. A restart always seems to stop it for a while.

My MacBook Pro is running MacOS 26.2 and it still happens occasionally.
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I paid attention to one example flickering. It was a site that had some light brown colors that flickered. After restarting Safari, the site did not flicker. As soon as I used my mouse to scroll the page, the flickering started.
 
We've had to switch out the Macs to PCs in a few settings because this issues is still unresolved.

Even my personal Intel MBP from 2018 exhibits flickering the internal screen (usually green) when using adapters to HDMI or USB-C to VGA adapter (Apple branded model).

Can't believe this has not been worked out as of 15.7.3, but even on totally updated devices: it blinks the display at least once every quarter hour. Apple's gotta get their testing / qc on releases down, and speed up the responses to their errors when they do this.
 
WTF his going in Appleville?

Remarkable that these things go on and on. And tech support always says "really, I haven't heard about that"... 🙄
 
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Am getting quite nasty flickering - but only in the weather app.

The hour-by-hour panel was flickering severely - like a failing fluorescent tube. Other panels like the 10-day forecast were much less affected.

The divider line has long tended to change in brightness a bit. But this flickering is an order or magnitude worse.

Happens on MBP M1 internal display and M4 mini with a very ordinary LG display.

This might have been happening to some minor degree on previous releases, but with 26.3.1, it has reached unbearable. I cannot leave the weather app visible as it is so annoying.

I strongly suspect the issue results from the interaction between glass transparency and the continually changing weather background used in the app. It has reduced somewhat as the background has slowed its rate of change (mid-morning rather than just past dawn).

So far, have not noticed flicker problems in any other apps.

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