Blinking White Light far right of Touch Bar

Machine is two months old. In the last two days I get this sporadically small blinking white rectangle on the far right of the Touch Bar. As soon as you touch the bar, the bar illuminates and the blinking stops. No idea as to why it started


Whenever the machine is on and not being used or the TouchBar is not being engaged it will just start randomly blinking in a random sequence. And then sometimes it doesn't as well.


Only thing I tried was just updating every possible thing that was asking for an update. All the restarts and all the things.



High Sierra 10.13.6

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports)

Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

500 GB

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, 4 TBT3), macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Sep 21, 2018 12:06 AM

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Oct 2, 2018 11:16 AM in response to deniz.uluisik

They couldn't diagnose anything at the Genius Bar but it was also not restarting correctly with one of the tests that they ran. Also I had a video of the blinking light as it is difficult to just recreate it being it started to happen randomly.


So with the visual confirmation that I provided and the peculiar way it was restarting, they ordered me a new machine which was a relief. It's a custom config so I won't have it for at least another week.


I would also like to add that the machine I currently have (get to hold onto it in the meantime) started to develop little glitches over the last few days that may be indicative of a bigger problem. The TouchBar is showing slightly weird lighting patterns from time to time in addition to the original blinking light. Camera applications such as Zoom and FaceTime freeze and need to be restarted. The cursor is getting jumpy and not responding to the trackpad sometimes. Videos run on Safari via Youtube or Vimeo have everything running a little laggy.


So if you are having this blinking light issue, record it, and get a replacement asap.

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