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the screen of My MacBook Air M1 flashes purple and then the computer instantly restarts.
this happened only once.
what can I do so this won't happen again??
It is updated to Big Sur 11.1
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.1
I installed the latest Big Sur update recently, I'm now running 11.2.1(20D74). This morning, when waking from sleep - on recharge, everything looked OK for a few seconds then before I could start to do anything, the entire screen flashed Magenta for a 10th of a second aprox, then rebooted as if from cold. No error signal, no start up chime. It's OK now, but I think it may have done this before while I was not looking as I have found that odd aspects of the system have reset, I'm really not clear on that at the moment though.
I installed the latest Big Sur update recently, I'm now running 11.2.1(20D74). This morning, when waking from sleep - on recharge, everything looked OK for a few seconds then before I could start to do anything, the entire screen flashed Magenta for a 10th of a second aprox, then rebooted as if from cold. No error signal, no start up chime. It's OK now, but I think it may have done this before while I was not looking as I have found that odd aspects of the system have reset, I'm really not clear on that at the moment though.
It's happening to many people. Much more discussion on it is here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252132170
This has happened to me twice in the last week. Anyone
That's an unexpected restart. You should free up some RAM by closing unneeded tabs and windows and quitting apps completely etc.
macbook air m1 screen goes purple and restarts
