Different colors on external monitors with same Color profile Macbook Pro 2019 Intel vs M1Max 2021

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Different colors on external monitors with same Color profile Macbook Pro 2019 Intel vs M1Max 2021

Hi, I need some advice. I switched from a Macbook Pro 16 2019 to a new Macbook Pro 14 with M1 Max.

After connecting it to an external monitor it messed up my colors quite a bit, especially the shades of grey/black.

I've tried copying the color profile from the original Mac to the new one, but it's still insanely gray and the color rendition isn't the same as the old Mac.

How to get out of this? Calibrating an external monitor with a probe doesn't help much. I'd like to achieve the same color reproduction as with the original Macbook.

Hopefully that's not a problem since the external monitor stayed exactly the same.

Posted on Oct 29, 2021 2:01 PM

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Tellinger Author

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Oct 30, 2021 11:34 PM in response to Eric_G1

I finally discovered the problem.

It's a setting on my Mac. When I connect via Display Port, it automatically sets my macOS HDR display to on. Even if I turn it off, some of the HDR is still there.

Only through the HDMI port the display is fine.

How do I turn off HDR other than through Displays settings where it doesn't work.

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Eric_G1

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Oct 30, 2021 2:28 PM in response to Tellinger

Hello Tellinger,

We see you're looking to calibrate your display after switching Mac models. We'd be happy to help.

Have you been able to try the Display Calibrator Assistant on the Mac? You can find details on it here: Calibrate your Mac display

You can also find some further help here: If your Mac display doesn’t look right

Additionally, you can check out this guide here for the ColorSync Utility: ColorSync Utility User Guide

The page notes it'll help with: "Use color profiles to make sure the colors in your images appear the same on all your displays".

Cheers.

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Eric_G1

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Nov 1, 2021 3:14 PM in response to Tellinger

Tellinger,

We're happy to hear you were able to get to the bottom of the color variance.

Have you had a chance to check out all of the various suggestions on this page, in regards to HDR: Play HDR video on Mac

If not, it's possible that may help out as well.

Cheers.

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