MacBook Pro Mid 2012 13” - Screen Issues | Vertical patches in the middle, left and right of the display

My MacBook Pro started having issues with the display about 6 months ago with sporadic vertical patches in the middle of the screen. It used to disappear and reappear on and off for a while. But then the patch became more and more persistent and now its permanent. I am very careful with my devices, so mishandling is something I can rule out. I have bought the device in Jan 2017. And the issue started appearing after about 4 years.


I tried all the NVRAM/PRAM and SMC resets, tried booting into safe mode. I tried one option of GPU switching but that also didn’t work, most likely because this version of MacBook does not have AMD Radeon. I tried reinstalling mac on both the SATA and the SSD I had fitted in. (I have added a 240GB SSD as primary and replaced the optical drive with the pre-existing 500GB SATA moved to its place, and replaced one 2GB RAM with an 8GB RAM, making the total RAM capacity as 10 GB.) I tried reinstalling the macOS on the SSD and the SATA. Nothing seems to have worked so far. The issue appeared after 6 months of when these upgrades were made so most likely the issue is not caused due to these upgrades.


I still think this is not a physical display issue because on some rare occasions, I do see the patch clearing up and the image/text in its background appearing as usual. Probably some internal disconnection causing this or some kind of a software fix that needs to be applied.


Anybody has faced similar issues and do you know of any solutions to this problem?


Posted on Jul 17, 2021 10:00 PM

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Jul 18, 2021 5:31 PM in response to AakashSharma

Good afternoon AakashSharma,


Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!


It sounds like you are having some issues with the display on your 2012 MacBook Pro, and we'd like to help.


Since this issue has been happening for 4+ years, we would recommend having your computer inspected by an Apple Authorized Service Provider in your area.


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Take care.

Jul 19, 2021 6:47 AM in response to AakashSharma

Vertical artifacts are almost always caused by problems (either repeatable or flaky) in the display Hardware itself.


To put the picture on the display, adjacent horizontal slices of the picture are stacked one below another to make the final picture. The only thing that has common vertical attributes is in the software that creates the picture, or the moment it is displayed.


You can attach an external display or TV set. This will use a different rasterizer/display-generator Hardware and produce a picture independently of the built-in display.

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