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Black window while browsing in Safari on Sonoma

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.


Posted on Oct 4, 2023 10:39 AM

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Posted on Dec 6, 2023 12:19 PM

I've updated to 14.1.2 yet Safari is still at Version 17.0 (18616.1.27.111.22, 18616). Anyone seeing a similar issue on the macs that have the black window while browsing?

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Jan 26, 2024 10:16 AM in response to Alphatoad

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.


Mar 10, 2024 12:38 AM in response to NorthRidge-IT

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.

Black window while browsing in Safari on Sonoma

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