MacBook Pro 16-inch screen turns saturated after wake from sleep

Same issue, in my case it seems to only affect my external monitors.

I've found that if you open: System Preferences/Display/Color select any Display profile other then the currently selected profile and then switch back to the original profile that it will fix the problem, at least untill the next sleep. Kind of a pain but takes less time then restarting....

I got the same problem when the laptop wakes up from sleep as well. Turning "True Tone" (System Preferences>Displays)off does help. It still feel pretty frustrated since the problem has been there over half a year and still not solved.

DanZur, The issue seems to have been resolved on my machine. If you put your laptop into screen saver mode and then come back out, does the color come back to normal? Apple had me do that test to confirm the issue was with a firmware on the video cpu.

Having this issue as well. Turning 'true tone" (System Preferences - Display) off and on fixes the issue in my case.

Seems like a software issue but don't HOPE too long while it is still under warranty, take it to Apple and have it checked just call for an appointment, every phone number world wide is here............. https://www.apple.com/retail/storelist/

Just got off line with Apple. This issue is from a setting on the video card. They are aware of the issue and will correct it in an upcoming update. Apple told me it is a setting on the "discrete CPU."

I've seen this a few times on mine as well. I just switch color profiles to something else and back and it's fine. It doesn't happen often so I can't say if the update I installed a few nights ago has addressed it. I am also having the problem where the color temperature seems to shift randomly, that happens quite steadily. I just turned off automatic graphics switching, so we'll see if that addresses as I read that it would.

Same problem here. On wake from sleep, screen is saturated and dark. I set up a hot corner for my screensaver, and a quick dip to simply screensaver, not sleep, will recalibrate the screen. Weird and frustrating.

I suspect that Apple has resolved the main issue of the internal setting on the video chip. In the past, I was able to easily create the issue by going into sleep mode. When coming back out, the color setting would have shifted. I would then go into System Preferences/Desktop and Screen Saver and start the screen saver. When I come out of the screen saver the color would be correct. I have no idea why this worked. When I called into Apple with the initial issue, the technician put me on to this. Interestingly he had me switch the screen saver to "Drift". Not sure why. At any rate, I can no longer create the issue.

Holy moly! You are a god send. I've been spending the past 3 weeks trying to fix my issue and your screen saver "Drift" suggestion solved it!

My issue is different though. My Macbook Pro's screen / display has weird blown out overexposed colors the entire time it's on! Tried every possible solution, including reseting the SMC and NVRAM, all of it. I was beginning to lose all hope and feared the worst -- that it was a hardcore LCD issue.

On a whim, I read your post, decided to try the screensaver method, and lo and behold, as soon as I clicked "Drift," the colors all came back to normal!!

The weird thing is that it was just by clicking "Drift" in the menu that fixed it, and if I exit out of the menu or minimize it, the colors go back to looking all weird again. So I have to leave the screen savor menu open in the B.G. with "Draft" selected at all times now. It's not the most elegant solution, but it beats looking at weird colors all day/night, so THANK YOU!

Hopefully Apple resolves this in their next update.

I also have the same problem . it happen very frequently. when my screen wake up from sleep at daytime , it will saturated and become very pale color(pale white) . When my screen wake up from sleep at night time , it will saturates become dark color. I think because i use auto color mode. that is why daytime is saturate at pale color and night time saturate at dark color. I am not sure it is my MacBook Pro 16 problem or Catalina problem . should I go to visit Genius Bar or wait for the software update?

😞 Same problem here.

happed two times already each time after sleep.

A week ago week: bland and low contrasty.

Today super saturated and dark.

MacBook 16" Catalina 10.15.2

64 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

This is still not solved, and it has been a problem with the MBP16 ever since its introduction. It happens to me regardless if the MBP has been connected to an external display or not. Sometimes several times a day. A fix would be greatly appreciated.

Hi All,

I have the same problem. It makes my Macbook 16 useless for photo editing. Its ridicules it takes this long for a multi thousand euro machine (64 gig version) to be able to work properly again. Any TV manufacturer would give you a new TV instantly.

Did anybody get its Mac fixed with the 15.5.5 upgrade? I was not so lucky.