2020 MacBook Pro M1 wake from sleep issue

Apple senior tech support told me that this was NOT an issue they had seen in their internal reports. I brought up a replacement and he said that they were def not going to replace the HW after the first 7 days because this seems like a software issue. He told me to back up my machine, reinstall the OS, and take it to Apple Store to get help.

A quick followup to my above post(s)...

Setting a screen saver to a hot corner, then trying to move into that corner and back out when the issue happens does NOT seem to help for me.

I've determined that the issue (for me) IS the backlight. With a (really strong) flashlight, I can see what's on the unlit screen.

I took the notebook to an Apple store and (as expected) the problem didn't repeat for them. However, they did say they could send the macbook to a repair center. They said that if they send it out, that it's unknown if the repair center would replace the display, main board, or anything at all. He also wasn't sure if the issue was software or hardware (and obviously, if it's software, a hardware "repair" wouldn't actually fix anything.). The only thing certain would be that I'd be without the computer for a week.

I declined for the time being. If there was some quicker repair or even some assurance that a "repair" would actually fix something, I'd probably go forward with it. If anyone on here as had a "repair" done that fixed this issue, please post!

One thing I've noticed if I quit mail completely it seems to help it wake correctly

macOS BIG SUR version 11.4 update yesterday now seems to be waking correctly, ....So far...

I've been using Monterey (12.0.1) for 5 days and seems like finally this issue fixed with that update. Now my M1 MBP wakes up incredibly fast without any screen delay . At least it worked for me.

Hey Barrettfromva,

I have bought a M1 MBP 13" And I experienced the same thing but worse, it will freeze on wake and bootloop. I had to reinstall MacOS 7 Times before returning it. My suggestion for You is to update to a Public Beta because that kinda worked for me a few times.

I am having the exact same issue. I have access to other M1 laptops of the same make and mine is the only one that has the problem (lucky me). Pressing esc key does seem to solve the problem. Annoying but livable. Hopefully an update will fix the issue. An Apple store is pretty far for me so I am wondering if it is worth trying to work out a return/exchange.

I have the same issue the best way to fix the Display after waking up and its dark for me is to turn the brightness down a little and it should get brighter and then turn it back up to the desired level hope this helps :)

No change in 11.2.1. So far escape key workaround works the couple times i've tried.

After the 11.2.2 update, I not facing this issue anymore.

got my MBA yesterday, updated to 11.4, same problem. Workaround with hitting ESC twice works up to now...

really annoying!

Have the same issue even with the several updates to the software currently Monterey. Hitting the Esc works for me but would have hoped Apple would have got the finger out and resolved it by now

I have another post here with a video.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252324233

For me, if you use a flash light you can see the screen is on, just no backlight. Not sure if this is the same issue as everyone else or not

In a way I'm kind of relieved I'm not alone in this issue. I've updated to the 11.2.1 as well, but I'm still having the wake-freezing issue as well still since I got this M1 13" MBP 2 months ago. It certainly isn't black/blank. Mine freezes with the loading screen halfway, but sometimes does the blank screen as well. Opening and closing it doesn't seem to work, but will try the double escape thing in case.

I've already run diagnostics and ran in safe mode to no avail.

For me it was not from the beginning. One day, after 2-3 weeks from the purchase, I closed the lid and when I opened it, after around one hour, the screen was black. After a lot of restarting and letting it go to sleep mode again and again, it opened like there was no problem at all. Since then, I have always to do the hack with the escape key. Just to mention, when it happened to me for the first time, I had the memory highly overloaded with huge number of safari tabs and other apps open. I mention that cause I thought it was something with the new Unified Memory technology. By the way, I am one day now with black screen only, but the laptop is fully functioning, I even get screenshots and they sync with my iCloud, but I cannot see anything directly.