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unable to color calibrate 2020 M1 Macbook Pro

I'm a professional photographer/videographer, and just bought the new M1 MacBook Pro. It seems developers are having issues getting their color calibration devices to work with M1 based Macs. Has anyone found a work around? I'm using a colormunki display from xrite - which currently works on my intel based MacBook Pro. DisplayCal software also incompatible with M1. Both apps are unable to detect the M1's display. I sincerely hope this gets rectified soon - color calibration is a must for any graphics professional.

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Dec 11, 2020 7:10 AM

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Posted on Jan 30, 2021 7:00 AM

Datacolor SpyderX and Spyder5 software (the current 5.7 releases) work properly on the new M1 Macs. You can calibrate the built-in display on the laptops, as well as an external display. If you have the M1 Mini, you'll be able to calibrate one or two displays, however many you have attached. (The other actively supported Datacolor Spyder products - SpyderCheckr and SpyderPRINT - also work properly on the M1 systems).


There's one issue in Big Sur running on M1 systems only, in which the normal API inside MacOS that provides information about attached displays doesn't return the expected information. The Spyder software works around this by catching the problem and simply providing an initial naming of "UNKNOWN-X" (with 1 and 2 appended, to signify either the main or secondary display). You can leave that as-is or, you can type over it with anything that you like. Otherwise, all functionality works as expected and calibration proceeds as normal. (Hopefully this gets fixed in a future version of Big Sur on the M1)


(Calibrating displays on other systems, and moving the display profiles over to an M1, isn't going to work reliably - I'd recommend against it :-)



David M.


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Mar 29, 2021 6:06 AM in response to abowmancolorconfidence

They have added the following to their site:


Software download for i1Display Pro and Pro Plus – The i1Display Pro and Pro Plus instruments use i1Profiler software (not i1Studio software). To download i1Profiler software for your i1Display Pro or Pro Plus instrument, please go to: xrite.com/geti1Profiler  and please also take the opportunity to register the product here for warranty and prompt on-going support.


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crmne
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Dec 31, 2020 9:50 AM in response to Foo Fighters

Hi there, I found a workaround.


If you have a previous profile created with DisplayCAL, open DisplayCAL (even on your M1), load your old profile, enable Show Advanced Options in the Options menu, go to the Profiling tab, and select Single curve + matrix as the profile type and enable black point compensation. Then use "Create profile from measurement data" from the File menu and save the new profile.


If you don't have a DisplayCAL profile, use another computer to create a "Single curve + matrix" profile with the instructions above.


Once you have a single curve + matrix profile, navigate to

~/Library/Application Support/DisplayCAL/storage/

and copy the appropriate ICC or ICM file to

~/Library/ColorSync/Profiles


I have done both and I'm quite pleased with the results (𝞓E < 2) on my relatively cheap monitor, especially by creating a new profile from scratch from my windows machine.

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