M1 MacBook Air Pink Screen Crashing

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.

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.

Sorry to hear about your frustration. Keep sending the reports to Apple with details. My own crashes were annoying but not debilitating. Started about 4 months into having it and then, as I said, were solved a couple months ago now…knock on wood. Good luck.

I've started having this problem too. It's happened twice this weekend, and I noticed that it seemed to happen while watching YouTube videos. Same with you, by chance?

This system has experienced kernel panics. This could be a sign of hardware failure.

Mine was a TM transfer.

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.

Same here, I've had it happen twice. It happened today and a few months back. It happened today after waking it up and my wifi wouldn't connect. After I ran the wifi diagnostics, I got the pink screen and shut down.

Thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve been experiencing the same kernel panic issue on my 3 weeks old Mac air m1, couldn’t update to Monterey, took the device to service for two times, was about to lose my hope. Then I did this and managed to update to Monterey. Hope kernel panics don’t occur again.. Also I realized that on Monterey there isn’t that “Mirror Displays” box to uncheck, so maybe Apple was aware of this bug and intentionally remove it with update? Who knows.. I hope other people experiencing the same issue see this solution.

That’s not the case for all machines. When I said I had not a single peripheral attached, that included monitors. No other hardware whatsoever. Also independent of being plugged in and charging.

I’m not sure whether clamshell mode refers to lid closed or open; in my experience a clamshell can do both :) but for me, since I’ve been using it exclusively as a laptop, mine is open.

This issue has happened with me, however, I am out of the 14 day 'cool off' period for consumers.

On multiple occasions I've had the issue where my laptop has crashed, showed a black screen - with blocks of pixelated pink and then its rebooted and restarted.

This was purchased around 2-3 months ago (MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 Chip)... What should I do to prevent this happening again or should I also request a return/swap?

Thanks,

Danny

It’s been one year since i bought my M1 MacBook Air (8 core/16gb). I’ve already updated to 11.6 few weeks ago, and yesterday pink screen crash happened first time :( I was just watching netflix, no other tab, no other app, just netflix.. I don’t know what to do, apple services are terrible in my country

I have similar configured MAC and have just started having the same issue starting yesterday June 21, 2021. I ran the suggested diagnostic to give the ADP000 code (ie no issues) which is BS!!!