Safari background comes up black

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Safari background comes up black

With Mac OS 12.1 and Safari 15.2, after viewing several pages correctly, a page will come up with the background black. If the text is already black this makes it unreadable. I have resorted to using Brave instead but I miss the keychain integration.

Booting in safe mode, as suggested in a previous comment about this, did nothing. The Safari Technology Preview also has this problem. I tried emptying the Caches from the Develop menu and disabling all extensions and that did not help.

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Jan 21, 2022 1:56 PM

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Answer 1

faith185

Community Specialist

Jan 22, 2022 5:50 PM in response to David J. Reeves

Hey David,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We understand that you're having some issues pages appearing black in Safari.

Are you viewing them in Preview or does this happen on a webpage? Are you using Light Mode, Dark Mode or does this occur in both? If needed, reference How to use Dark Mode on your Mac.

The troubleshooting from If Safari displays a blank page or quits on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch may help as well.

Take care.

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Answer 2

AlexDaMan

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672 points

Jan 22, 2022 5:55 PM in response to David J. Reeves

There are some websites that are published in black. It wouldn’t worry about it too much. But if there is black text, that would be a problem.

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Answer 3

Jan 22, 2022 6:02 PM in response to faith185

Was using the computer in Light mode, not viewing in Preview. First few pages load correctly then suddenly one would be black. The same page will sometimes be correct then after switching pages a few times it will come up black.

Tried switching to Dark Mode, it still happens. The pages render correctly in Brave.

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Answer 4

AlexDaMan

Level 3

672 points

Jan 22, 2022 6:04 PM in response to David J. Reeves

That’s interesting. I wouldn’t find it much of an issue, unless you the text Is black too. You could contact apple support if you do find it an issue.https://support.apple.com/

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Answer 5

Mar 1, 2022 12:50 PM in response to AlexDaMan

I has exactly same Safari bug

When I duplicate the Tab with bug, the page is loaded correctly

The bug occurs em many sites

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