Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

tommygun1950

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 16, 2025
4
1
Ohio, USA
I'm new to MacOS. Luv my Mini M4 but have issues with custom monitor profiles. On cold boot the OS loads my profile just fine but when the system goes to sleep or comes out of screen saver the display profile reverts to what is I guess is the default, sRGB. I must reboot or shut down/restart to reload my custom display profile and that's a pain in the a$$. I need to have a properly calibrated monitor for photo editing. Suggestions?
 
just to have no ambiguity here: after e.g., waking the mini the sRGB profile is reported in the monitor settings and not your custom profile?
Further: and you cannot change the profile back in Settings>Displays but have to reboot? (I understand that that is still annoying, but want to know wether that works).
If you can not change the profile via the system settings after it has switched, reboot in safe mode and delete
~/Library/Preferences/com. apple.system preferences.plist - then restart and assign your profile.
 
You have it exactly correct, no ambiguity. Just to be safe I copied that prefs file to an external drive before going through your procedure. So far it's working, thank you! Just out of curiosity, after restarting, I looked to see if the system recreated that prefs file. It did not, so where did it come from in the first place?
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.