Mac Sequoia, Screen Flickering every few minutes

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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2020 Macbook Pro. Same issue the moment I upgraded to Sequoia. I'm on 15.0.1, still happening. It's terribly annoying. Called support and tried safe mode and tried logging in as a different user. Same issue. Needs fixed.

Are you sure this is the same issue? In my experience, this is purely a cosmetic problem. The background is flickering; however, nothing is happening with open apps, including Finder, in any negative way.

Losing external monitors for a few seconds and experiencing screen blips during zoom meetings seems more like a hardware issue to me. Can you try using a different port on your MacBook (like USB-C or Thunderbolt), or test a different monitor using HDMI (even a TV)?

P.S. I have a feeling that a few days after the 15.0.1 upgrade, things improved significantly with the background flickering. It's interesting because I remember it flickering right after the upgrade, which left me a bit disappointed.

Appears to be some compatibility issue with the external display. Others have experienced similar:

What is your external monitor make and model? Maybe the manufacturer has some suggestions?

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It's quite embarrassing. I see number of similar reports since June 2024. How is it possible that it hasn't been fixed?

I'm experiencing this issue on a Mac Mini M2 through HDMI, and I'm not using the Mendeley web importer. It started happening just after I upgraded system, with custom wallpaper, but it's also occurring with the default Sequoia wallpaper and even with a solid background.

I have a 2019 MacBook Pro that has the same issue. The propsed solutions did not work for me, including the solution that shall not be named. I am sure of is software related since it does not happen when running Windows 10 through Bootcamp.

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...

Are you running more than 1 monitor

I get the flicker every 9 minutes - it starts every time by magnifying the main monitor image, the second monitor then goes blank, the image than eventually returns correctly on the main monitor, then a second or two later, the second monitor comes back ( but on accessions does not, whereby I have to put the system to sleep, then wake it again, and the second monitor comes back).

I am this very moment, after updating to the latest (24B82), with my second monitor blank after "the flicker", and still blank even though I use the technique I just mentioned in the previous paragraph which worked on the previous version.

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.

Upgrading to 15.1 solved the issue for me for about 1 day then it was back.

installed 15.2 yesterday fixed it again and has remained solved to now - will repost if it comes back again - fingers toes head all crossed in anticipation.

I’ve been doing all the updates and what I have noticed with the latest 3 or so is that after the first day it settles down

also ‘flickering’ is not the right term now - what is actually happening is images on the second monitor get moved to the main monitor which thrn goes blank reappears then those images get replaced

Uninstalling Mendeley web importer solves my problem with safari. Many thanks!

Same here on Macbook Air M2 it happens both with and without external monitor Benq and Philips. .

Started after sequoia update, never had before.

Strange.

I can confirm that with 15.0.1 is disappeared, maybe only for me.

weird.

It's not a purely cosmetic issue. The flicker interrupts certain native processes. For instance, if I have Background Sounds playing, they stop and need to be relaunched whenever there's a flicker.