Mac Sequoia, Screen Flickering every few minutes

I have this too. I've reported it today at Feedback - macOS - Apple

Not sure if anyone has discovered a fix or not?

Currently running a Mac Pro 2019 3.5GHz Intel Xeon with 96GB RAM, so I don't think it's resource issues!

As promised, I updated in 15.1b4 not 15.01 and no more flickering since 1 hour. That probably means that it'll been solved in 15.1.

I called support twice about this. I took the following steps, to no avail:

1) Deleted the duplicate color profiles for my LG monitor. Didn't fix it. It creates duplicates again.

2) Tried Safe Mode.

3) Tried to create a 2nd user/account on my macbook, it still does it on the second user.

4) Re-installed Sequoia (was hoping I'd get the option to downgrade, but no go). Still does it on a clean install.

5) I also wondered if it was connected to the new Sequoia motion backgrounds, so I turned those off. Didn't help.

6) Tried a different HDMI cable.

So now every single Zoom meeting I just lose my screens and my meeting blips several times. It's endlessly frustrating. I hope someone prioritizes this fix soon. It seems to me the macbook loses it's connection to the 2nd monitor, as my windows all momentarily move to the macbook as if I unplugged my monitor, but then instantly re-connects. So you get a blink, flash, and then another blink while it reconnects and then it's back to normal. But it's terribly disruptive.

Still getting the flickering screen. The screen flashes a black background for about half a second, about 3-4 times per minute. Details:

• This is on a Mac mini M1 2020 connected to a Samsung M8 smart monitor via Thunderbolt
• This is after having upgraded to mac OS 15.0.1
• It's happening with all wallpapers -- dynamic as well as static photos as well as just a color background. I can even see it if I switch to a black background because there's a moment of flicker before the screen goes black
• I do not have the Mendeley web importer installed

Let's get this fixed Apple.

I still have them though with Sequoia 15.0.1 and it's more frequent than before.

I appreciate that quite a few people have found your suggestion helpful. However, I do not think that this extension is so widely installed that it can ultimatly be the culprit. 🤔

Simply, in my opinion it appears that Apple is uninterested to address the simple fact that dynamic wallpapers/screensavers have been buggy since Sequoia on 8GB machines. iCloud integration into almost everything in the OS, plus the new widgets and iPhone mirroring all contribute to a slower/dumber OS.

They really have to sit down and figure out if they want their computers to be computers or hybrids between computer and iOS. As far as I am concerned, the attempt to bring iOS to MacOS makes the whole Mac experience ******** if it the OS is not stable/responsive as we have all come to expect from a Mac.

Sonoma in its current state is obviously laggy/buggy. Sure, once you get to work, everything works well for the most part. However over the course of a day or week, you'll simply see little signs that the OS is not refined on the m1 8GB machines and, by the looks of the comments in this thread, more advance Macs as well.

Also, M1 8GB Macs are way to new a computer to even tempt me to think I need to upgrade. Hence the frustration...

Splurging on a new Mac with 16GB is a ****** option when they push the 8GB variety of their computers so hard.

Hold managers that ok these releases more accountable!

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Hello all,

Here the same in France on Macbook Air M2, everything was working like charm probably seems Sequoia update... Wallpaper's flickering alternatively when it wants or not. Menu bar and dock are not... this CAN'T be a cable issue at all.

Trying to update to public 15.1b4, will keep you informed of resolution or not.

P.S.: that's good to see that I'm not the only one having this issue...

I thought I was going crazy.

It happens in the background while I’m in an active window. I see the background flicker to a light grey. I only have a black background so it’s very distracting and concerning.

Have the same issue here since installed OS 15.01

Also notice that the connection to any second monitor seems to be interrupted shortly as well. Even the wacom tablett (connected to the monitor) seems to be disconnected for a split second and shows a message when it reconnects. Strange: all windows in use seem to not effected (browser, photoshop, etc.) mainly the desktop seems to suffer from this bug.

The screen model or manufacturer (i`m using 2 monitors, both DELL) has nothing to do with it, since this has been working for 2 years now.

However, this was now resolved, but i have no clue what resolved it.

What i did was:

Completly shutdown the macbook, remove the USB-C docking station i`m using, remove all It's cables, connect a different USB-C Docking station, turn on with only 1 monitor (i have two), that was stable for 24 hours, so i replaced back to the original one i had (that was flicking before), and connected everything back again as if nothing changed. and now, it works fine.

seriously, i got no idea what actually fixed it. but this is very annoying, and did not happen on OS 14.

Goode News - seems

I just updated to sequoia 15.0.1 and seems fixed, no longer flicking.

R

Here, two days with 15.1 b2 and intensive use and NO flickering. (Macbook Pro M1 2020 with 16GB)

Since the update to 15.1, there has been major flickering on my 2 external screens. At the moment, my MacBook Pro is unusable.

Same problem here after Sequoia installing with a Macbook Pro 2020 M1. I'm using chrome with Raindrop.io, uBlock Origin and Last Pass extensions. Not using Mendeley or Safari for now, and not using wallpaper, only solid color. My suspicions are from Chrome or VLC video player.

I agree that it doesn't seem to be a plugin issue, but I don't see why iCloud integration would necessarily be a problem. Other than this issue, Sequoia is working fine for me. And on an M2 MBA 8gb ram, dynamic wallpapers worked just fine under Sonoma.