Black windows in Safari and Mail in Ventura OS

Well that sucks!!! I guess I should be grateful it can be bypassed but my entire personal life is on Safari including a ton of bookmarks. My professional life is on Firefox. I try not to use Chrome due to google and their tracking/use of information. Sigh.

Thanks for answering.

I know my reply is late but that is the system (13.4.1) I am using on an M2 and have the black screen issue and white type issue. I was going to upgrade again with the fall 2023 update but apparently there are other issues so I was waiting to see if they got fixed. I am tired to rebooting over and over.

Running Sonoma (14.1.2) on a brand new 24" iMac (11/28/23- 24GB mem/M3 chip/500GB) issue on Safari-screens going black without explanation - also in outlook mail- installing Mozilla & Google to avoid using Safari because this is ridiculous

I am running Sonoma and getting a similar problem. When I open new windows in a 3rd party TWS application, they come up empty (all gray) under certain conditions. This only happens when Safari is running. I have a small handful of Safari windows open e.g. 1-3 but my main Safari window has zillion tabs open in it. Closing Safari solves the problem without needing to restart the three instances of TWS. When I am in state, all new TWS windows open blank. Opening a firefox window also comes up very weird and unusable (all white with a wide black stripe across the top). Closing Safari solves all the problems without the need to restart TWS.

I am experiencing a similar problem on M2 Max and M2 Ultra Mac Studio computers, both with 64GB. This "blank window bug" affects not only Safari but many applications including TextEdit, Activity Monitor, Firefox, Audacity, and Trader Workstation (TWS). It only happens under heavy GPU load. I can resolve it be quitting enough applications to sufficiently reduce the demand for GPU processing. When this problem is happening, GPU utilization is close to 100%.

There is a clear issue with MEMORY (RAM) in these new machines. Instead of lagging the graphics simply do not render and display a black window in safari. The screen saver is also effected and will only display a solid magenta color. This can easily be replicated and reproduced every time. Simply open as many Safari winnows as possible. Pretty sad.

Apple M2 Ultra

64GB RAM

13.5 (22G74)

I always delay upgrading to the latest OS version for specifically these kind of problems. But last week i assumed that Ventura has been out for so long now, it MUST be safe to upgrade to 13.6.7 with my 16” M1 max 64GB; and wow, was i wrong! 

Yes, I now have these Safari and Mail black and white window issues, and its infuriating to see that this thread started 18 months ago, and yet no Apple Support specialist has weighed in with a reliable work-around… and of course if you call in to Applecare, they’ll blindly suggest that you upgrade to Sonoma, which some people here are saying STILL has the issue… and maybe even more.  And/or they’ll have you reinstall the OS, fresh; but i already did a clean install when i did this upgrade; so this standard suggestion is a waste of time as well.

So….I’m wondering, has this thread carried on somewhere else? Is there indeed some kind of solution?  Any help or clues appreciated.  

 I was bug-free on Monterey since the start, but wanted to see if i’d get some better performance from Ventura, and wanted to try some newer versions of apps that required OS 13+

But no upgrade is worth this kind of frustration. 

Incidentally, been using Apple Macs for over 30 years, along with dozens of my colleagues, and we’re altogether sad to say that Apple support for Macs has been on a steady decline ever since their disastrous TouchBar model was released :(  

But i’d love to see them get back to their roots, and start to respect their loyal customers as much as their speculating shareholders

some further issues with powerpoint; the slide is totally corrupted and nothing shows properly (a lot of boxes and graphics are missing)

Same here. It reappears even after a new OS install via the recovery option. Even restarting does not completely solve the problem. Urgent solution requested..very frustrating indeed.

I have the issue too in many applications.

I'm having this same issue in safari, mail and also sometimes my pages documents body text and pics are gone. Macbook Pro 16 inch 2021. 64 GB Ram M1 Max. Ventura 13.3.1

Frustrating

OWC dock ejector on my end as well.

Unfortunately it was too much wishful thinking that the safe mode restart would work. The problem returned after two hours...

Did anybody do a full fresh install to see if that would solve it?

Isn’t anyone from Apple reading this??? Seems this issue is affecting multiple users for a while. APPLE TECH SUPPORT WHERE R U??!

I upgraded to Ventura 13.4.1 last week and since then I have not experienced the 'black window issue' again. I hope it does not reappear.... Does anyone else have the same experience?