Random screen flickering while watching videos.

I fixed the issue by turning off Hardware acceleration in Google chrome browser.

Open Google Chrome, and click Customise and Control GoogleChrome > Settings > Show advanced settings. In the System section, uncheck the box next to Use hardware acceleration when available, and restart Google Chrome.

I cant understand how but the flickering/flashing also stopped happening in safari after this.

Does anyone know the reason for this?

EDIT 2: I filed in the bug report again, via link: https://bugreport.apple.com/

which is probably more reliable than just using the feedback link. If everyone uses that link instead, apple will make this bug a high-priority fix.

I have contacted Apple by phone and they say "we don't know anything about problems like you describe". I think that's a little arrogant and to easy. I have a 2000 dollar laptop which cannot playback Netflix normally. It's unacceptable, I thought that it was fixed by resetting de NV ram with the support engineer by phone but a few minutes later the problem seems to persist.

On Monday I will contact Apple support again because I won't accept this.

Any solution to this yet?

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) - 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB ram

Happens all the time. Super annoying. Only thing i can do is refresh the page until it stops.

I have a 2017 MacBook Pro with the same issue. It happens in Chrome and flickers the screen when I play any video on Facebook, Youtube or Netflix. I have to close the browser and restart it to get rid of the flicker. It happens intermittently. My only solution is restarting the browser, but I'd love to hear of any solutions that actually fix the problem. Thanks!

UPDATE: I've shot a message to Apple via the feedback section (link: Feedback - MacBook Pro - Apple)

If everyone here gives out the message regarding the flickering, Apple will definitely release a fix much sooner than expected. Go team!

Hey I had a similar problem where there would be a random flicker when I was watching Netflix in full screen for forever but found the solution to be turning off subtitles if you have them on. I've been able to watch Netflix full screen without flicker since then

I have a macbook pro 13.3 2017 with Touch Bar and I am encountering the same issues with the green artifacts / screen flickering when using Netflix full screen. When I have the cursor on top of the control bar of Netflix, the flickering stops.

Using firefox isn't an option because full screen leaves me with the dock that stays visible in my screen....

Very weird issue, I am on High Sierra.

Hey Guys, I have the MacBook Air 2017 and I the problem is still there! I also have that flicker on Netflix. I went to the store where I bought it, they gave me a new one and it also has the same problem!

I also have problems with my MBP and flicker in both iTunes and Netflix and tried getting it repaired during the warranty and got the logic board exchanged & whiped the whole system without effect. Contacted Apple Support and got the same reaction as you "we have not heard anything about this problem before". I were insisting and they looked through my log-files and did not find anything. After a some discussion back and forth they came to the conclusion that the problem must be in the OS because they couldn't locate it anywhere else, and because of that it is my own responsibility because I chose to update. And to add to that they suddenly did know about the problem, they had heard of several with same problem and I should just keep updating then it would be solved in the future (no timehorizont could be given).

so all I can say is good luck fighting with Support. 😟

Check out your screen settings. It seems that flickering will occur in scaled down modes. Switch to native screen resolution (2560x1600) and try out. This solved the similar issue on my 13" Retina macbook, early 2015 model.

I have this problem and I have a brand new MacBook Pro 13" no Touch Bar that I bought like two days ago... it only happens in iTunes and QuickTime though, so it seems to be a localized Apple problem for me. I downloaded VLC and now I am able to play my videos. It's odd though because iTunes will play the movies I've bought through apple with the flickering but nothing else. Hmm.

Yes, this indeed solves the issue but this is not a valid workaround. It only started when I upgraded recently to High Sierra and it still smells like a bad OpenGL bug to me which needs to be addressed by Apple

same problem in 2017 macbook pro 15" with high sierra. youtube seems to be recent while the problem with netflix has been there for a while. Chrome works perfect.

Contacted apple, they reccommend osx reinstall. did not do it yet.

Hello everyone,

I also have this problem (MacBook Pro 13 Touch Bar 2017) with OS 10.13.3

In my case, the screen flickers and artifacts are formed when watching dark passages in movies. Try disabling the automatic brightness in my case that helps.

Who can try it out?