Mac Sequoia, Screen Flickering every few minutes

I've been having this all week as well. Like some others have mentioned, it's not just a cosmetic flickering, it's as if something is switching the focus of the app to something else. This frequently interrupts keystrokes when typing. And if you have any modal dialog, like a right-click, menu bar app, etc. those get dismissed as well.

What I've narrowed it down to on my end is some Python scripts that manage Docker containers. The script tries to access a file in `~/Library/Group Containers/...` to change some Docker settings, which requires permissions to other apps (or Full Disk Access). If I decline that access prompt, or disable FDA, the flickering stops, or at least becomes a lot less common, maybe once every few minutes (annoying, but usable). I've also tried to comment out the method call that does that file access, and it seems to also help, but unfortunately breaks some stuff with Docker, so I can't use that solution.

My M2 MacBook Air is on Sequoia 15.0.01 and this is happening to me as well. The flicker only happens to my desktop which flashes a solid dark grey wallpaper and then reverts back to my desktop image. I am also not running the Mendeley web importer extension.

Are you running more than 1 monitor

I get the flicker every 9 minutes - it starts every time by magnifying the main monitor image, the second monitor then goes blank, the image than eventually returns correctly on the main monitor, then a second or two later, the second monitor comes back ( but on accessions does not, whereby I have to put the system to sleep, then wake it again, and the second monitor comes back).

I am this very moment, after updating to the latest (24B82), with my second monitor blank after "the flicker", and still blank even though I use the technique I just mentioned in the previous paragraph which worked on the previous version.

Any solution?

Same issue here on macbook air m2

Me too with the MacBook Pro M2 and two external BENQ screens, connected via daisy chain all 3 scenes, the background are black for a second.

Same here on Mac Studio M1 Max

Same for me, 2021 M1 MBP. Seems to happen independent of any app in particular or none at all.

Me too.

with the update to 15.0.1 the frequent is no lower but not gone

Me too, Mac mini M1, with macOS Sequoia 15.0.1, no add os... just flickering screen. Extremely annoying

After I punch in my password. The screen flickering

Can I update it to the lastest one while the one can’t open

same issue on a M3 8GB RAM