Mac OS 10.13.4 wake up screen glitch

Hi, I have the same issue with my MacBook Pro 13" bought in late 2016 with no touch bar. Most of the time when I open it after the stop mode, I see a glitched screen like yours for few seconds and this problem started around January 2018. It's been also few weeks that I see a sort of quick flash on the screen when I watch Netflix, for example. I went to the store where I bought it to have it checked and the guy from the assistance told me that they have found some problems with the GPU. Since he's a friend of mine he suggested to monitor the Mac, see if I still can work with this problem (basically I can, it doesn't show up with any program) and maybe wait for some upgrade because it will cost me around €500 to have it fixed. Since it's a lot of money and I didn't get the guarantee extension when I bought it (😠😢) I decided to wait but I'm currently thinking about getting it fixed or maybe wait until the release of macOS Mojave and hope for the best.

Ugh. I guess we all have to wait for 10.14. But still, I implore everyone to call into Apple, after having taken a video of the staticky screen, and ask for a supervisor and get them to send you the link to send attachments so they can send it to engineering. Squeaky wheel, ya know? We can't just write on these boards. We have to tell THEM about the dissatisfaction. So annoying on a $1500 new computer.

I'm on mojave and i'm experiencing the same issues. Called apple and they told me that they have no patch at this point in time. Only solution for me is to switch the automatic graphics switching off as my use is more moderate.

Yes. Apparently, they fixed newer Macs and broke older ones. I have the MacBook Pro 13-inch, mid-2012, and I have the same wakeup issues since upgrading to Mojave. Furthermore, due to an unrelated issue with Photos being stuck on "Uploading 39 items", I completely wiped my Mac by re-partitioning and restoring 10.14.1, and the issue persists. Once it gets to what is supposed to be the password screen, objects like the account photo and buttons are just large white boxes, and the rest of the screen is either blocks or a large circular pattern of garbage. Once I put in my password and get to the desktop, it looks a lot like your photo, and varies a bit from time to time. Besides the snowy noise patterns, I also noticed the last time it happened that there were little crosshair-like plusses all over program windows that were open. I am unable to navigate well as the menus only flash the text on them for a second before presenting just a garbled box, so I have to click on where the Apple should be a few times to get my bearings as to where Restart is, to be able to click it. Restarting is the only thing I can do to fix the issue until it happens again.

Ensure you have latest updates in your high sierra. I believe the issue depends on the operating system and the graphics card.

Mine has an Intel HD 4000 with 1536MB and I do not have the issue under 10.13.6.

My problem appears when I update to Mojave.

Let us know your graphics card and if you update to Mojave, let us know if the issue disappears.

In other threads some people says that the issue could be related to overheated cpu.

If you get the issue all the times the MBP wakes up, see if the computer is overheated.

It's likely a driver issue, meaning software (as I discussed above). Windows machines with Intel iGPUs have had the same issue in the past. Driver updates were rolled out to fix it. Same will happen for OS X soon hopefully.

I have this same exact issue. It always seems to be random and I’m not able to replicate it.

I’m running Mojave 10.14.5 on a MacBook Air early 2015. It didn’t seem to do it on 10.14.4.

Just to add to this, it will do this even when I’m using and external display. So it’s for sure not the screen or a loose connector because the miniDP is a different connection.

There is no problem in macOS Sierra. When I update to High Sierra, this issue show up very often. It's realy annoying.

macOS High Sierra glitch 雪花 - YouTube

This video record by iPhone 7 slow motion.

Since i updated to Mojave i haven’t seen the glitch. Macbook 12” 2017

Is it still under Warranty?

What temps does this App report for GPU & CPU?

MacFansControl…

https://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control

I have the exact same issue and laptop. The screen glitches have been getting a little worse and I just got the below screen—my laptop had frozen, then I got this screen and had to manually restart. I chatted Apple Support after and they told me to reset the NVRAM. Hopefully this helps, but based on an earlier comment I'm skeptical.

Yup, mine is also a mid-2012 Macbook Pro, and I'm seeing precisely the same symptoms after upgrading to Mojave (among other issues, but that's another story). Sometimes the it gets better when I go to Settings-->Accessibility-->Display and check/uncheck the "Increase Contrast" button. Other times I have to reboot. Super annoying!!

I had the same issue on my MBP 13" mid 2012 using Mojave.

The fix was back to High Sierra (sadly).

I do not know why Apple says that Mojave is compatible with our machines but finally it is not.

In my case I upgraded my MBP with a Samsung SSD. Sometimes I thought that it could be the problem, but I have not tested with the old HDD.

Could be a problem recovering the screen status from the swap memory?

It is a really shame because Mojave works fine but when it wakes up.

Please, Apple, do a fix for this in order we can enjoy the real dark mode!!