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Is there a problem with Studio Display firmware update 16.4?

On Tuesday 5/23 I exchanged my Studio Display for another one. The defective display was powered up for the first time on Friday 5/19 with my new Mac Studio. On Saturday 5/20 I discovered that the display would not wake up after pressing a key on the Magic Keyboard. I verified that the Mac Studio was awake because pressing the play/pause key on the keyboard would start playing music from my library.


After a couple of support chat sessions that failed to resolve the issue, I decided the problem must be with the Studio Display itself and 5/23 was the last day of the 14 day return period (the Mac Studio was not delivered until Thursday 5/18 but I picked up the Studio Display on 5/9).


The replacement Studio Display is working perfectly. However there is now a Software Update notification that a Apple Studio Display firmware update to version 16.4 is available.


When I first powered up my new Mac Studio on Friday 5/19 there was a Mac OS update that executed successfully. I don't remember if there was also a firmware update executed for the Studio Display and I never took note of the firmware version of the Studio Display that I returned for the exchange.


The firmware version of the replacement Studio Display I have now is 15.5.


I am terrified of executing the firmware update because I suspect that is the cause of the problem with the Studio Display that I returned for the exchange.


I am curious if anyone else is having a similar problem with version 16.4.



Mac Studio, macOS 13.4

Posted on May 26, 2023 6:39 PM

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Posted on May 30, 2023 6:03 AM

I agree with swifty_dev about being very cautious with the 16.4 firmware update for the display. I updated mine and am not finding that my display is not recognized frequently after rebooting or waking from sleep.


I certainly hope Apple issues a fix soon!

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May 27, 2023 2:43 AM in response to RaiderJim

If everything is working fine, I wouldn't update it. Apparently, it's a common issue with the Studio Display that updating the Studio Display can cause some things to stop working, or in the worst case, brick it (what happened to me a couple days ago, when I performed the 16.4 update).

It's a shame that after paying $1,600 for a display, we need to be terrified to update it.

Is there a problem with Studio Display firmware update 16.4?

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