ICC profiles not sticking

Give this a try: boot into Safe Mode according to How to use safe mode on your Mac and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.

NOTE 1: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following; 

• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed

• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)

• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically

• Disables user-installed fonts 

• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files

NOTE 2: if you have a wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries connect it with its charging cable before booting into Safe Mode. This makes it act as a wired keyboard as will insure a successful boot into Safe Mode.

Only solution is to use studioicc, Apple's Color Sync is broken and its been for last 2 including Sonoma OS'es

the developer of studio icc is nice, try to let him know your issues with the lid.

this little app is not a 100% success, in some rare occasions i still have to select the profile after a sleep, but it’s just one click instead of.. how many? can’t remember, but with datacolor was crazy, and with colorsync was even worse.

again, talk to the app developer, maybe he can solve your issue. he already did a lot more than apple..

One workaround is to not sleep the computer but just use the screensaver to kick in and eventually dim the screen.

The devices you use all working fine its the problem with Apple's ColorSync Utill that keeps reseting after sleep, restart, resolution change.

But o have noticed some weird things, that half the profile is being used, i can't explain, but for example my calibrated profile adjust for blacks and color (white balance), for blacks i see change, but i color is reset

i was having a very bad month screaming at the guys at datacolor, because the profile is going away at every sleep, logout, black screen. i was really really sure it was the new spyder x2 having issues with my setup, but at this point it's just the 'setup' that cant remember the profiles.

for me this is quite new, i'm using those spyder things since version 3 maybe, never had issues. i'm trying to remember if i had problems before sonoma, but i'm no more sure of anything.

not optimal, i don't want my machine and my monitor to stay awake for no reason.. and you still have to set the right profile every time you log in, at least once a day.

maybe some script to re-enable it at login. and also have it in a handy place like the script menu, so you can re-activate it when the monitor goes black.

this is crazy, it was all working. some recent studio display firmware update ruined everything.

the one greyed-out in the pro display calibration app? if that is the one you are talking about i have 2 issues: 1, it's greyed-out, cant click it, and 2, visual fine-tune sounds quite different from 'use the colorimeter to calibrate'. anyway, i cant click it. maybe because this is a studio display?

I've been trying to solve this problem for weeks now. I just bought myself a MacBook M3 16 inch. I came from an Intel powered MacBook 2017 model. The 2017 MacBook worked fine in Colour sync but the new MacBook M3 can't seem to get Colour profiles to Stick?. I've tried the trial version of Studio ICC app, however the same problem still exists. Am I using that incorrectly? Whenever I put the lid down on the MacBook Pro, the colour profile seems to default back to the Apply Display default profile. I have rung APPLE support several times and they seem to put it back on Data Colour. But that's impossible because I've since tried a new colour calibration through Calibrite. So all these manufactures can't be at fault. It's an apple issue that they don't seem to be interested in fixing this simple issue. Is this isolated to just a few computers or is this across all MacBooks.? How do we get APPLE to fix this?

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