Black windows in Safari and Mail in Ventura OS

Recently I have been seeing the contents of my Safari tabs and Mail windows turn black (and unreadable). I have a lot of windows open in each of the applications. Windows that were previously opened seem ok, but new ones turn black quickly, or open that way. The little window previews on Safari tabs show what the windows are supposed to look like, but nonetheless the contents of the actual tabs are black. Similarly, email messages that were already open are ok, but new ones I open are entirely black. I've only had this problem since updating to Ventura (MacOS 13.1) a month or so ago. I'm using a MacBook Pro with an Apple M1 Pro chip and 32 GB of memory.


I don't have this problem when I use the Chrome browser, but I also don't have nearly as many windows and tabs open in that.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.1

Posted on Jan 23, 2023 12:37 PM

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Posted on Feb 29, 2024 8:19 AM

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%.

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Mar 23, 2024 4:47 AM in response to orindad

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)

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