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Since updating my MBP 13 yesterday there is a massive amount of flickering when watching Netflix in full screen mode. Updating Silverlight did not resolve the problem.
Has anyone a possible solution for this?
Thanks
MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 10
Because it has been more than 2 months since I observed the problem and I reported it via Apple feedback, but it is still unsolved, I decided to contact AppleCare.
They were very helpful and friendly, and they finally identified the problem:
The flickering appears only when the subtitles are on and it happens every time the subtitles appear on the screen. If you disable the subtitles, or if you watch a scene which has no subtitles, there is no flickering.
They told me that they are working on this and it will be fixed in a future update of macOS. They were not able to specify if it will be fixed in the next update or afterwards, but it will be fixed after all.
Fingers crossed. 🙂
I just tested it on Safari too. Can confirm, no more flickering for now.
No software updates.
My full-screen Netflix (using Safari) is still doing the weird swiping movement. I have an appointment at the Apple store tomorrow, will let you guys know what they say.
Edited to add: on my other post about this issue, I received this reply...
Hi Rachael122,
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
It looks like your screen sometimes shakes when watching videos in Netflix. We can offer some troubleshooting steps that may help now or in the future.
Does this happen with other movies? You can test by downloading a movie trailer or past purchase from the iTunes Store to see if that plays normally in full screen. See Download your past purchases.
If you see the same behavior with other video content, you may want to try again in a new user account on your Mac. This can help rule out software conflicts or other issues: How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac
If this is isolated to Netflix, you can find some specific information that may help in The Netflix player is off-center when I try to watch.
All the best.
@grpires No, I haven't done any updates on my mac, just checked again in case i haven't noticed.
I would not say that it's fixed. But that it's seems to happen less. In two episodes of 40 minutes, the rewind problem only happen twice.
But the luminosity flickering with the subtitle is still there.
I have exact same problem with MacBook 12. It appeared right after Sierra Update.
Flickering on Mozilla, Firefox and Safari.
I compared iTunes movies and series in full screen, with no problems.
Also trailers with same browser, with no problem.
Somehow refresh rate or buffering with Netflix is not in synch with Sierra?
I am also having this issue on a 2014 13' Macbook Air after updating to Sierra
Hi,
I managed to get rid of flickering, by changing display settings to Scaled: Looks like 1152 x 720.
I tried also higher setting than default, and flickering increases.
same here my friend, macbook 12 2015
I can confirm the flicker still happens even after macOS Sierra Update 10.12.1.
I my case there is no flickering any more, but this has stopped even a week ago or so. No flickering after the update to 10.12.1 yesterday.
But every now and then there is still some minor luminosity flickering.
Hi, this also happens to me. Only when Netflix is fullscreen. If I don't activate fullscreen, the issue doesn't happen.
Also early 2015 MBP.
As far as I can tell the new update fixed problem for me from Safari, still doing it in Chrome. I'll keep watching stuff to confirm if it's really fixed.
I have this same issue on a MacBook air 13 inch early 2015, I got it right after updating to Sierra,
Is there any fixes yet for this issue?
i have a MBP ''13 and the same problem.
does someone already has a solution?
Besides using Firefox or a scaling setting different than the default one, nothing so far.
Flickering on Netflix after Sierra update
