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Ichinenjuu Author

Level 1

22 points

Screen flickering after Mojave update

I have a MacBook Pro 15" with Vega 20 graphics card that I ordered in mid-November. It's been problem-free since it was delivered on the 20th until today. After I updated to Mojave 10.14.2, the screen started flickering intermittently. The flickering happens mainly when I have graphics switching disabled, but I've seen it flicker even with that enabled. It happens more when I wake up the computer from sleep.

Any ideas what is going on?

MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar (2018 or later)

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 10:40 PM

76 replies

Motyoj

Level 1

42 points

Jan 16, 2019 7:20 AM in response to Ichinenjuu

Maybe this will help:

http://osxdaily.com/2019/01/16/screen-flicker-macbook-air-2018-workaround-fix/

jzn123

Level 1

8 points

Mar 7, 2019 1:06 AM in response to Adam Sebire

I am having the same issue with my mbp i9 vega20. None of the above solutions works :(

Hope Apple will come with a solution soon, otherwise I have to return this laptop.

cvbcvb

Level 1

13 points

Apr 8, 2019 11:43 PM in response to cvbcvb

Version 10.14.4 (18E226) seems to have fixed any issue for me.

Lineom

Level 1

8 points

Apr 14, 2019 4:28 AM in response to Ichinenjuu

It must be a software issue as of right now I’m updating to the latest software because I haven’t in a while and the newer version does say fixes bugs so I will check back and see if this fixes it

Lineom

Level 1

8 points

Apr 14, 2019 5:01 AM in response to Ichinenjuu

updating to the latest software didn’t help me

Apr 24, 2019 5:27 AM in response to Lineom

I have developed this problem on both my MacBook Pro and Imac running the following MacOS version 10.14.5 Beta (18F108f)

This is defo software related, resetting SMC hasn't helped either.

May 22, 2019 6:37 PM in response to Lineom

I just upgraded my MacBook (Early 2016) to Mojave 10.14.5 (18F132) and now my screen flickers too! I've tried all of the above suggestions and nothing worked :(

Jul 5, 2019 1:56 AM in response to phunksta

Just a quick question,

did anybody of you guys tried a clean install? Who is having this problem while using BETA OS PROGRAMM?

thx.

Jul 7, 2019 1:09 PM in response to ellefr

Try turning automatically adjust brightness off and see if the black flicker graphical issue goes away. For some reason it appeared to fix mine?

ashu24

Level 1

12 points

Jul 8, 2019 11:19 PM in response to TdottDub

Same here

I’m also having Macbook pro mid 2012 model. And recently this issue started coming. I tried with NV/Pram reset and SMP reset also but it didnt help.

v1nsai

Level 1

13 points

Aug 20, 2019 5:22 PM in response to v1nsai

Set my PC to native resolution for my MacBook Pro but still got flickering when I tried to stream from it. Darn.

Aug 27, 2019 9:48 PM in response to creativ-george

Can confirm it still happens

Starts flickering and as soon as I change the resoluton to the next one down it stops

imicrod

Level 1

10 points

Oct 5, 2019 8:39 PM in response to Ichinenjuu

I feel some kind of relief that this is a software problem and it should be resolved in Catalina.... fingers crossed 🤞, But this really feels like Apple doesn’t care anymore, it’s sad

imicrod

Level 1

10 points

Oct 5, 2019 8:40 PM in response to Lauren-7

I feel some kind of relief that this is a software problem and it should be resolved in Catalina.... fingers crossed 🤞, But this really feels like Apple doesn’t care anymore, it’s sad

Oct 18, 2019 11:45 AM in response to ParkingPixie

It's a shame Apple won't address the issue.

Screen flickering after Mojave update