Flickering on lower portion of my Macbook Pro M2max Screen
the bottom portion of my screen has lines and is flickering. i reset my computer and ran a diagnostics and it is still having this issue.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.1
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trapLA wrote:
the bottom portion of my screen has lines and is flickering. i reset my computer and ran a diagnostics and it is still having this issue.
The user diagnostic is not definitive—
In or out of warranty you can get a free over the counter 'Apple Service Diagnostics' test /assessment
Make an appointment for a "hardware issue"
Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple
Outside the USA
Contact Apple for support and service - Apple Support
You can try plugging into an external monitor this would be telling...
To trouble shoot further you can:
—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
unplug all third party peripherals when testing
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS