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Users Report External Monitor Issues After Updating to macOS Monterey 12.3
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Yes they can. They could do whatever and be fine. They’re flush with cash. You’re talking about Wall Street BS. The only winning move in THAT game is to not play it. The stock market is poison to everything.
Just tried the unplug/unplug/replug/replug trick from the article and it brought my 2011 Apple Thunderbolt Display back to life! I had no idea this might've been a software problem, I just thought the trusty decade-old monitor had finally given up the ghost. It's connected to my 2021 M1 MacBook Pro with an Apple USBC-to-thunderbolt adapter, so I guess the DisplayPort 1.4 bug in macOS 12.3 applies to first-party externals too.
We have intel MBPs with two external displays. One, a Dell, works fine while the Lenovo 1440p jumps to such a high resolution you can't read the text. This was fixed by scaling the resolution to 1080p. The other weird thing is the Lenovo screen will not show the chosen background pattern. It is stuck on bright blue! This all happened right after updating to 12.3.
I'm using 2 LG 4K monitors daily, and every now and then one of the monitors isn't being recognized properly and the colors are off (shades underneath pink/purple colored text). After a simple reconnect or a power off/on, it'll work.
Not a severe bug, but quite a pain sometimes...
Not a severe bug, but quite a pain sometimes...
How did Apple become so bad at external monitor support? Back in the day, Windows users used to envy Mac users for this reason but now it’s the other way around. And the dock that Steve introduced over 10 years ago hasn’t evolved at all... It’s as dumb as ever in adapting to a multiple monitor environment.
Yet another thing that Star Trek accurately predicted!
I also could not get my USB-C Display to work after letting my MBP 14" sleep. Had to reconnect it (not that hard of a workaround but still annoying). BUT the problems with external drives connected over USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 are back again ... Quality control at apple is completely gone.
I really wish Apple would separate security patches from OS releases. As an IT Admin, **** like this puts me in a really tough position.
Given all of the usb problems in Monterey, this isn't much of a surprise. Whoever rebuilt that subsystem did a lousy job of regression testing. There's a bunch of stuff that's still not fixed.
They over simplified it. Remember having to use a dr bots gear head ii to get external protectors working because apple refused to send video output unless it could detect a fully compliant monitor (which most conference rooms weren't)
I am a PC user and I recently bought the Mac Studio base model just to mess around with MacOS. I can't get it to work with a USB-C to Displayport cable to my LG 27GL850 monitor. The flicker is so bad it's pretty much blinking. HDMI however works, and I'm topped out at 100 hz, whereas my monitor can go up to 144 hz., but I think there might be a tiny bit of flickering that I can't see because I get nauseous after a short while even just web browsing.
With Windows, you can hook up any trash monitor and it will work fine. I dunno why people always trash windows. My desktop has Win10 and I have no problems at all with anything, although I might not use it as hard as some of you guys.
A monitor should be one of the least problematic devices you can hook up. At least with a laptop you can use the built in screen, but with a desktop like the Studio, if your monitor isn't working then you're up a creek.
Apple should take Microsoft's approach to MacOS. Instead of coming out with a new version every year, just work on the bugs and add stuff here and there. Maybe after 5 years, then come out with a rewrite.
With Windows, you can hook up any trash monitor and it will work fine. I dunno why people always trash windows. My desktop has Win10 and I have no problems at all with anything, although I might not use it as hard as some of you guys.
A monitor should be one of the least problematic devices you can hook up. At least with a laptop you can use the built in screen, but with a desktop like the Studio, if your monitor isn't working then you're up a creek.
Apple should take Microsoft's approach to MacOS. Instead of coming out with a new version every year, just work on the bugs and add stuff here and there. Maybe after 5 years, then come out with a rewrite.
In fairness, I've never had a problem in plugging in any monitor to any Mac over the last 30 years. This latest 12.3 update has very much screwed that track record.
I'm not familiar with Windows currently and so don't know how it compares, but over recent years I've certainly felt that the Mac has become very much like the Windows we like to think still exists.
The ‘ole “Apple is no innovating” argument. Comes up all the time when there is the smallest issue. It would be nice to know who of those posting use external monitors. I use two connected to my MacBook Pro (one via a thunderbolt adapter and other via a dock). No issues, but I exercise restraint on updates and wait it for a few months before installing a minor or major update. This alleviates all of the pain of being an early updater.
But don’t take it the extreme and be one of the prior version zealots, of which there are plenty, and they are quick to announce how proud they are to be running a 5 year old version of OS X. They are the ones who bitch when Apple stops supporting their 10 year old computer even though they have no intention of ever updating.
just give the updates a few months to shake out.
I experienced this actual problem on my 2018 Intel Mac mini. I blamed my Mac mini which has been having a lot of other problems. I ended up resetting the PRAM and SMC and had this problem creep back up once. I was running the 12.3 beta for weeks before too, but I was using a Cinema Display and recently upgraded to a 32” 4K LG Monitor in getting ready for my Mac Studio to arrive. Looks like it was software related and I owe my Mac mini an apology when I go downstairs for work today.
Since I've owned my m1 Mac mini I've had to unplug the monitor from HDMI at least once every week because when the computer wakes from sleep all I see is colored static. Unplugging and plugging the cable back in has always fixed this, fortunately.
That's some good advice. I was thinking maybe there could be some settings in the monitor that I could tweak, since my monitor is a gaming monitor. Maybe this might help my flickering / blinking issue.
I see my monitor in the settings for display port, and it says 1.4 enabled, I guess turning that to disabled would do what you are saying. I'll see what that does.
If not, I guess I'll return the cable back to best buy.
I've had janky external monitor issues since I took possession of my M1 MBP way back when they were brand new... This doesn't sound like news to me at all.
More seriously, this is a bummer. I'd been hoping that 12.3 would solve my multi-monitor issue (can't connect two 4K displays to my M1 Pro MBP over a single thunderbolt cable via my TS4 dock - I have to have one of them connected directly). Seems like it makes it worse. Glad I haven't gotten around to updating (from 12.2.1) yet.
In fact it's not just the displays. My external audio interface and webcam always have to be manually replugged as well!
Still hoping this will eventually get ironed out.
In fact it's not just the displays. My external audio interface and webcam always have to be manually replugged as well!
Still hoping this will eventually get ironed out.