After upgrading to Sonoma, Safari displays all content in a black screen. If you scroll quickly, you can see the context briefly, but it is quickly covered by black again. Using Apple's page as a test, I can still click on random things (as I can't see them) and it appears the page is redirected, but I still can't see.
I've verified the settings in Safari mirror that of another machine that is working fine on Sonoma.
Have you restarted your computer?
Try opening Safari, while depressing and holding the "shift" key.
Try to Use safe mode on your Mac.
Currently happening to 2 Sonoma, M2, Macbooks. Has not affected any Intel Sonoma machines.
Reinstalling OS does not help long term. Newly formatted and installed Macbook had it start happening after 10-14 days of use.
We are using JAMF as well.
Reviewing other older threads about this issue has made us believe it is a problem with the WKWebView toolkit/class platform.
I went ahead and reinstalled the OS and it worked.
Hello NorthRidge-IT
BLACK SCREEN. I also have a Mac mini pro 2023, M2, 32ram, 1 tb. I experienced already from few months ago the black screen which lasts about 5 seconds. I am using a 8k, 85 inch , Samsung tv. 2023.It happens in Safari when I open 4 to 6 windows with video content. Tried many things did not work. Few days ago tried Brave and all this did not happen again. Hope is only Safari that does this. I renounced Safari for the time being.
I've noticed in the Tab Overview screen you can see the webpages normally
When I tested with Safari Tech Preview, everything works normally.
Same issue here, but the really weird thing is that Safari Technology Preview works fine. The normal browser is just a black screen though.
This is a corporate laptop with Jamf and FileVault enabled.
Same issue
on some sites bit render on others its just black.
This was after a update from 14.0 to 14.1
Brand new Macmini (2023) with an M2. Again as stated above, started with a fresh version of Sonoma, after about 2 weeks it started getting this issue.
Absolutely. I have rebooted multiple times. This behavior is system wide (tried multiple user accounts). Depressing "shift" while launching Safari exhibits no change.
It's also important to note that this also occurs in a private window. All cache/history has been cleared as well. This is a 13" M1 Pro MBP.
We have both of our machines that run Sonoma having this issue. We are managed by JAMF, but not sure if that is relevant or not.
Safari 16.4.1 and MacOS 14.0 on one
Safari 17.1.2 and MacOS 14.1.2 on the other.
The behavior is consistent in safe mode. I apologize for not including that earlier.
Since I'm not using Sonoma, I'll move on...perhaps someone who is will be able to help you.
I'm having this same issue. By chance, do you have FileVault enabled?
Yes we do. I have seen this on about five machines now. Our machine are managed by JAMF.
Black window while browsing in Safari on Sonoma
