Macbook Air 2021 with M1 chip renders red into pink

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Macbook Air 2021 with M1 chip renders red into pink

I've been on the new Macbook Air for two day now and am disturbed that the color rendering seems quite 'off'. The color profile in Displays is set to 'Color LCD', which I presume is default, there are many other settings but I wouldn't want to change them without advice.

There are numerous examples of this distinct pink toning that can be seen when this new one is placed alongside my older, 2015, Macbook Air. A newspaper, for example, will show the flag 'Breaking' over an article which is rendered on this this 2021 M1 chip model as distinctly pink, while on the 2015 Macbook Air it is red as intended.

Has anyone else noticed this, or perhaps there's an adjustment I can make to achieve real colors as intended.

P.S. The True Tone offering appears to only slightly affect the background color, it has no affect on the other screen colors. I have it unticked, as it seems not to have any point.

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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Jan 31, 2021 3:55 PM

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ryane77

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Feb 3, 2021 6:55 AM in response to BMWF650GS

Hi BMWF650GS,

Thanks for the post! We know it's important to make sure that your Mac colors look as expected, and we'd like to see if we can help.

To clarify, is this happening with the internal display, or are you using an external display?

Which exact macOS version are you using under Apple menu () > About This Mac?

As a starting point, try resetting your NVRAM, which may be helpful for display issues: Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac

If that doesn't help, we suggest creating a temporary administrator account on your Mac; then sign in to the new user and see if you can replicate the issue. That will tell you if it's system-wide or if there may be a user-specific issue: Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac

Once you've tested, reply back here with the results. This may help work out what's happening and point to further steps.

Have a good day.

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BMWF650GS Author

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Feb 3, 2021 7:47 AM in response to ryane77

Resetting NVRAM or PRAM is an unavailable option on this M1 chip model as I would think you should know, and it is packaged with Big Sur OS and is the only OS currently available.

It's boxed for return to Apple.

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Macbook Air 2021 with M1 chip renders red into pink

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