There's a vertical line that just appeared on my screen (14' M3Pro)

Am I forced to change the screen altogether or is there a way to repair it ?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 21, 2025 7:16 AM

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Mar 21, 2025 7:27 AM in response to mbagalwa

Full Height Vertical artifacts (goes through the Menubar as well as the opened widows) are almost always failures in the display assembly itself.


The litmus test is to examine a screenshot.

If the defect is NOT present in the screenshot, the issue IS almost always the display assembly.


you can work-around by connecting an external display.

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Mar 21, 2025 8:22 PM in response to mbagalwa

Either view the resulting screenshot on another device, or make sure to move the picture to the side so that the screenshot does not line up with the screen so you can see if the defect exists ..... you cannot tell if the screenshot lines up with the display.

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There's a vertical line that just appeared on my screen (14' M3Pro)

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