Hi all,
I've recently updated to Catalina 10.15.7 on my 13 in. MacbookPro (early 2015) and have been experiencing graphics issues ever since. Whole menus are blank in various apps as well as Finder. Sometimes the item is still clickable, sometimes not. Some return to the screen, some don't. In Photos all of the preview/thumbnail images are dark, neatly black. Album art in Music disappears.
Any thoughts on how to fix this issue?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
Try running Disk Utility First Aid on the SSD (better yet run First Aid on the hidden Container). To select the hidden Container you need to click on "View" within Disk Utility and select "Show All Devices" so that the physical drive and Container appears on the left pane of Disk Utility. Even if First Aid reports everything as "Ok" click on "Show Details" and look for any unfixed errors. If there are unfixed errors you will need to erase the whole physical drive and restore from a backup or clone.
To look for possible software issues run EtreCheck and post the report here using the "Additional Text" icon which looks like a piece of paper.
Run the Apple Diagnostics to see if there are any hardware issues.
See if you have the same problem while booted into Safe Mode.
Try creating a new user account to see if you have the same issues. If a new user account works fine, then you have narrowed down the issue to something within your own user account.
Try running Disk Utility First Aid on the SSD (better yet run First Aid on the hidden Container). To select the hidden Container you need to click on "View" within Disk Utility and select "Show All Devices" so that the physical drive and Container appears on the left pane of Disk Utility. Even if First Aid reports everything as "Ok" click on "Show Details" and look for any unfixed errors. If there are unfixed errors you will need to erase the whole physical drive and restore from a backup or clone.
To look for possible software issues run EtreCheck and post the report here using the "Additional Text" icon which looks like a piece of paper.
Run the Apple Diagnostics to see if there are any hardware issues.
See if you have the same problem while booted into Safe Mode.
Try creating a new user account to see if you have the same issues. If a new user account works fine, then you have narrowed down the issue to something within your own user account.
Graphics Issues with Catalina 10.15.7
