M1 MacBook Air Pink Screen Crashing

Apple silicon - Safe Mode

1. Shut down your Mac.
2. Turn on your Mac and continue to press and hold the power button until you see the startup options window.
3. Select your startup disk, then press and hold the Shift key while clicking “Continue in Safe Mode.”
4. Log in to your Mac. You might be asked to log in again.

And Test if the crashing continues. If not - there might be a User Account issue

Agree with @ Luis Sequeira1 - there is a 14 Day Return Policy with Apple not questions. Just Log into your Apple Store Account and find the purchase for this machine - and Request a Return. Apple will send the required packaging to your account address on file and end of story. That easy.

What P Philips said.

Did you migrate from a previous mac? If you did and if the problem does not occur in Safe Mode, please run Etrecheck and post its full report here using the additional text button button your message area.

For future reference: when upgrading to a new mac or a new OS you should always ONLY migrate the user accounts and nothing else.

If the problem persists even in Safe Mode, you may want to use the 14 day window to return it. There is always a chance (slim but nonzero) that you have gotten a defective one.

Some question and same advice as to the OP: if this also happens in Safe Mode, and if you are inside the14-day window, return this mac as it is probably a hardware issue.

If you migrated stuff and the problem does not happen in Safe Mode, then it is more likely to be a software issue, and then an Etrecheck report posted here may lead us to the cause.

lovemesomeapplestuff wrote:

Bought my M1 MacBook air in November and I've had the same problem since around the 19th. Nothing I've done has helped.

Same situation - problem occurs when mirroring displays - or something else?

It may help elucidate the issue if we have more details.

My MacBook Air M1 was bought in November 2020 and it's been performing well until this problem began to persist. While I can't recall if I was using airplay the first time this happened, it's possible I was mirroring to an Apple TV as it's something I do daily.

A few days later, after chatting with Apple Support and right before considering taking the device to an Apple Store, I opened the lid and the screen turned on, working again like normal. This lasted an hour at most before going dark again, stuck in a boot loop ending each time with a brief flash of a pink screen then crashing. I also can't remember if airplay was involved this time around.

Realizing the hardware was still functioning, I used another Mac and Configurator 2 to perform a full restore while the MacBook Air was in DFU mode. During the process, the Apple boot screen reappeared and everything seemed to be going well. I started reloading software and using the machine like normal for a good few hours. This time I was definitely mirroring to the Apple TV. All was fine until after a period of inactivity, the device went to sleep. After pressing a key to get it going again, I found the device stuck on the black screen once again.

I've since contacted Apple Support and will be shipping the device for repairs once their packaging arrives.

My issue with the pink screen followed by restart went away after removing Zoom. I recently had to re-install Zoom for a meeting followed by an update and so far my MacBook Pro 13" M1 is stable. Fingers crossed.

Hello everyone, I am a new macbook user, got the basic M1 macbook air version for work and I have been trying to adjust both to the OS, as well as the unfortunate bugs, and mind you im talking about the updated 11.5 version of big sur: wireless connections, external displays, pink screen, sleep mode waking up, ive battle my way through mostly everything.

I logged here to reply because I saw a lot of patterns considering my problem with the pink screen crash & reboot:

1) Mirror displays m1 with my eizo 2760

2) Youtube tab in default player mode in safari

3) It's happened with or without a usb hub so I think its more likely correlated to the above setup rather than hubs

I do not have Zoom app installed in my device. Concerning the patterns: most times ive had the pink screen was facing the open youtube tab with the default video player while working. It's like its triggering it.

But now for the tricky part: because I mostly use the macbook with external display and connected to power, I think I have also come to the conclusion that mirror displays is the primary triggering factor. I mostly use the mac in clamshell mode because i dont really use its retina display use to size, but i know for a fact i mostly became aware of the issue while using the mirror displays mode ( i had to test the battery draining and thus couldnt use clamshell mode because it was unplugged from power)

I have worked my way through ALL sorts of usb hub and external display issues that I didnt have time to work with the pink screen crash, but the above points I mentioned (mirror display + youtube) do really stand out since dont use the macbook for anything else other than safari + MS office.

As for the problems ive experienced ill just note them here to give people more keywords to search for:

1) usb hubs draining battery power

2) external display problems with HDMI (spoilers, prefer cables and ports in this order: thunderbolt>usb-c>displayport>hdmi and directly unto the TB ports on mac, not hub)

3) favor mac verified wireless peripherals, mostly bluetooth ones

4) external monitor not waking up due to hub/cable/port

Hope this helps., thanks for any feedback.

Had the same issue with my MacBook Air M1 almost daily crashes with pink screen. Deleted the Disk with the disk utility and installed MacOS and everything new (not from a backup) - since then over a week from now, no crashes or pink screen anymore.

Nothing to do with Zoom here. Mine started crashing rebooting randomly a few weeks back. Screen freezes, about a minute later pink screen flash, then reboot. Did diagnostics and came up "no issues" ADP000.

Seems to be a hardware issue so will need to send it in for repair/replacement. Just started a few weeks back (early August), bought new in the spring.

I am having the same issue with an M1 Air. Happens randomly, screen flashes bottom right hand side has a pink block and the computer reboots, I am connecting to an external screen and it happens randomly and I have noticed it has happened several times when clicking on YouTube videos, but I am on YouTube all day so not sure that has anything to do with it. Happens about 2-3 times a week.

I still have them occurring, regardless of app or peripheral or asleep or awake, once or twice daily. Tried some advice given over at Macrumors (forums) to change power settings, but to no avail. I’m thinking more and more that it’s a hardware issue.

This also happens to me, and mostly in situations not previously mentioned on this thread. 2020 M1 13” Macbook Pro 16GB / 1 TB, Big Sur 11.4. It mainly happens to me when I’m running Pro Tools - which has always been known to stop responding, especially on M1 machines, when running a lot of stuff that takes up the CPU. But it will also happen in other situations. Like for example right now, it just happened when I was trying to eject an external drive, it wouldn’t eject, then everything stopped responding (including Finder and it wouldn’t force relaunch either), and then pink screen and then shut down. Eeesh. Happens to me about two or three times a week. I wonder if the pink screen has anything to do with it, or if it’s just shutting down for various reasons and the pink screen is an incidental detail with these new M1 machines. I don’t know what I’m talking about though, just taking shots in the dark. Would love to know if anyone from Apple is aware of this issue.

Same issue. MacBook Air M1 bought 6 months ago (early 2021)

Two thoughts:

1) Could it be related to using an external display? It happens to me pretty much always when I'm connected to my thunderbolt display.

2) It seems to happen most often when I come back from being a way for a few minutes and my macbook is waking back up from going to sleep.