MacBook Pro Touch - Screen Color Changes

I have found a solution to my problem by accident, while on battery power. My MacBook told me that Energy Saver was using Significant Energy.

Short version: While running on Battery Power, open up System Preferences and go into Energy Saver. Disable “Automatic graphics switching.”

Long explanation: As soon as I unchecked the “Automatic graphics switching” box the screen’s color stopped changing and the sudden freezing has also stopped. Problem solved. Out of curiosity I enabled Automatic graphics switching and it then reverted back to the color shift and freezing.

This is the part I don’t understand. With Automatic graphics switching disabled, I plugged in my Power Adapter and the screen’s color still didn’t change. I then checked the box to enable Automatic graphics switching and the screen’s color also didn’t change back. When I was on battery power and enabled Automatic graphics switching the colors would change, while on power adapter the colors do not change. I unplugged my power adapter and the colors did not change no matter if the “Automatic graphics switching” box is enabled or disabled.

So this leads me to think that it has something to do with the Energy Saver function. I still have the “Automatic graphics switching” enabled to see if the color shift and freezing will return, but as of right now I am no longer having these issues.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

This issue started happening to me today and it looks like it has to do with auto-dimming, even when you have the setting turned off. The issue manifests whether connected to power or on battery.

If my computer is in a well-lit, bright room, the issue does not happen, but the moment I move my computer to a darker part of the room the issue manifests when the screen seems to attempt to adjust to low-light.

As samuelberlin mentions, I can momentarily reset it by starting the screen saver via Hot Corners but it comes right back in a few seconds when the screen tries to readjust.

So it's definitely a dimming issue that happens, and most likely software.

NOTE: Both are turned off when this happens: night-shift and "slightly dim the display while on battery power".

For me it happens very infrequently, and I think it has only ever happened within a few minutes of coming out of sleep mode.

Use case: Put laptop to sleep, put in Timbuk2 bag, go to work, take out laptop, open up screen and it comes out of sleep...wait a few minutes and observe unexpected color temperature occurring that settles out within a minute or so.

As my MBP is still under warranty, I am thinking of bringing it in....but I have been wondering if it might be a bug with High Sierra 10.13.5 Beta (17F70a)

Automatically adjust brightness is OFF (no check in check box)
Night Shift schedule is OFF

Color temperature is all the way to the left (Less warm)

I have found something interesting. If I depress the mouse on the color temperature slider...without moving it...the effect that is created is very similar to what I observe sometimes. The screen gets pinkish and then settles down to the expected color temperature. That's probably just a coincidence, but might help someone understand the phenomenon better.

Greg

Hi, this just happened to me too. I've noticed it happen in the past as well. For me the screen hue suddenly became warmer [than my calibrated profile created using an i1 Display Pro].

Is this still persisting for you guys?

I have the same issue with my MacBook Pro 13"; 2017; Touch Bar; 500gb; 3,1 Ghz; 16gb ram

Intel HD

Night-shift is OFF
Automatic light adjustment is OFF

One of my active corners is "show desktop" and once I hit that it went back to normal

and then it comes back randomly

Also, even though automatic ligh adjustment is turned off, IT DOES ADJUST THE BRIGHTNESS ANYWAY!

please help, this is annoying.

Just come here to say I have the same issue, seems to happen most often a little while after waking from sleep.

macOS High Sierra 10.13.6

MacBook Pro 15-inch 2017

Radeon Pro 560 4096 MB

Intel HD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Same thing just happened to me a couple days ago. If I constantly move the mouse pointer everything works fine, but the second I stop moving the mouse the screen's color changes. When this happens my computer also freezes for about a second. As I am typing this, I am able to get a few words before it shifts color and words stop appearing on the screen even though I'm still typing. Then all of a sudden the color shifts back to normal white and my typed words appear. One second later it shifts back to pink.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6

Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

okay, I found something,

to me, it seems like it has something to do with night shift going crazy.

(even though automatic night shift is turned off)

When my screen color changed at 10 in the morning, I activated nightshift and immediately deactivated it again and the color got back to normal.

Did anyone else try this before?

However, I still need to do that often and it is annoying.

It happened to me three times within 15 minutes today!

Seems to be backlight issue, since it happens even if the Grayscale mode is set from the Accessibility options. And is visible in any color profiles no matter if wide-gamut or not.

Also does not effect external monitors.

It also happens more often if the MacBook is hot. Once it happens it never gets blue/white again unless I close it for few seconds or turn it off.

When it is hot, the problem happens again after like 10 seconds after the wake up. If it is cold it happens after several minutes or even hours.

Covering the The ambient light sensor also does not fix the issue, nor anything in the automatic settings or power saving.

My suggesting is it is hardware overheating problem in the display backlight or something related to it.

I also think Apple does not have the intent to fix this, and they added the feature called 'True Tone' in the latest model, so they would try to cover up the problem.

It is funny that most of the comments even now are 'turn off auto brightens', or 'turn off auto night mode'. But the problem is real, and in future there will be comments like 'turn off True Tone'. So it is totally covering up of real problem with features that does not need to exist in the first place.

We just want properly calibrated monitors and not gimmicks. But ... probably not going to happen, since real good monitors usually costs more than the entire MacBook.

Please let me know if anyone solved this problem. I took the computer to the store and they said that they had to fix the logic board, which will take 2 weeks. One person on this thread said that that repair did not help and also 2 weeks is a long time. I purchased this laptop in February and I can't believe such a big problem with a new computer.

I have tased screen shots for your reference.