macbook pro lcd screen problems made in china

Apple"s standard policy is that a screen that survives the shipment from the factory in China and is delivered to you intact after that trip has no defects, and they will generally not repair it as a defect if the glass is broken under the standard "defects in materials or workmanship" warranty.

I was in a hurry and I closed the screen without seeing that the jack connector from my headset was just a bit on top of the mac. Therefore, when trying to closing it it, the jack penetrated a bit of the lower part of the screen. I don"t think it should cause any problem, and everything seems to work fine, but if it affects the screen in the long term i don"t want to have to replace it completely. But he damage is so small and seems so harmless that i don"t want to spend the amount of money apple suggest for taking care of it (i don"t have apple care plan).

Therefore i came here to ask if someone have an opinion on this to know if i should worry and go to apple, or it will just be a harmless scar forever (in which case, i would be happy). I am afraid this could go bigger or start disintegrating the screen or something.

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Intel MacBook Air and MacBook Pro LCDs do not have security features and are NOT paired to the Logicboard. True Tone will work (both third-party and original.

They are serialised, but only for the purpose of verifying your warranty to ensure your Mac comes with the same LCD it is sold with, and even then not all Apple stores check them.

The hinges for the Macbook Pro 13” 2016-2017 (A1708/A1706) are physically different from 2018-2019 (A1989/A2159). This only applies to original Apple parts though.

In any case, if you use a 2016-2017 on a 2018-2019 Macbook Pro, not only will True Tone not work, the entire LCD will be extremely dim after it logins to the desktop to the point it is nearly not visible.

T2 does not affect anything. True Tone will be disabled only on M1 and above Macbook Pro and Macbook Air. The LCD has to be paired, which currently only Apple and AASPs can do. Facetime camera will work.

Very slight misalignment when fixing back the LCD connector, or that your battery screw was not removed well before the lcd is replaced can short out the camera or True Tone component circuit on the Logicboard.

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It’s been an interesting journey for Apple as it has figured out its manufacturing plans for the new Mac Pro. While the US factory that produced the 2013 Mac Pro in Austin, Texas is indeed handling the 2019 Mac Pro after all, that’s not the case for international customers.

Back in June, not too long after the Mac Pro was first unveiled, we heard that Apple was reportedly going to use its vendor Quanta to manufacture the pro desktop in China, marking a shift from the previous generation Mac Pro that was made in the US.

However, in September, Apple pivoted and officially announced that it would keep production of the Mac Pro in the US. That came in the midst of Apple working with the Trump administration on tariff waivers for the new professional desktop.

As Mac Pro production ramped up, Tim Cook gave President Trump a tour of the facility. The event caused a stir on a variety of fronts but most interesting may have been Trump confusing the factory as a brand new one when it’s the one that has produced Mac Pro since 2013.

Today, the Mac Pro is arriving to the first customers who ordered the new modular machine and Google Translate) received a picture from a reader that the Mac Pro for Europe is indeed made in China, not the US. Many speculated that this would be the case but this is the first official confirmation that not all Mac Pros will be manufactured in the US.

Update 12/4/22 – There was a flurry of people on Twitter today retweeting out this article with the clickbaity title “Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China”.

It seems that the China government’s atrocious COVID lockdown policies in Zhengzhou (site of Foxconn’s “iPhone City” manufacturing plant) resulted in Apple finally realizing that it needs to diversify its supply chain. According to the WSJ article, iPhone City had at one point alone made 85% of iPhone Pro models.

A lot of people don’t understand the world of smartphone and laptop manufacturing. The way it works, a contract manufacturing company called an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) gets the contract from Apple, and they’re responsible for building the manufacturing plants to make it. For years, Apple has relied solely on Taiwan-based OEMs like Foxconn and Pegatron. Foxconn and Pegatron, in a move that looks increasingly foolish by the day, decided to go all-in on China to build their manufacturing plants, so they could enjoy cheap labor and not have to learn Vietnamese or Hindi. Foxconn would pocket the bulk of the profits (taxes on which would be paid to the Taiwanese government), and the local employees in China would receive a smaller cut.

If what the Wall Street Journal is saying is correct, it means moving forward, China-based companies like Luxshare and Wingtech will get 80% of the profits and 20% would go to local operations in India or Vietnam. In other words, if a year from now you buy an iPhone that says “Made in India” or “Made in Vietnam”, it’s likely that even MORE of the profit from the price you pay will go to China, the Chinese Communist Party, and the People’s LIberation Army compared to today. And MUCH less will go to Taiwan to defend themselves.

Update 9/21/22 – It’s amazing how quickly the rumors on Apple’s attempts to divest from China are coming in these past few weeks. The latest rumors from JP Morgan analysts are that Apple intends to manufacture as much as 25% of all Apple products outside of China by 2025 (they’re at 5% currently). Even better, it’s Taiwanese vendors who are playing a key role in relocating to India and not continuing the trend of the last 20 years of feeding the hand the bites them.

There are some glimmers of hope. To India’s credit, they were able to pass laws that the corrupt United States could not in limiting China’s manufacturing footprint. Bloomberg reported that Apple and FoxConn are going to attempt to ramp up its production in India–up to now most India production was gone to serve the India market, but let’s hope some of them make it to other markets.

The last paragraph of this article is chilling in how ignorant the reporters are. “India’s workforce and factories haven’t easily adopted the highly controlled practices that Apple requires from supplies”. What this really says is this: Apple and the Chinese Communist Party share the same approach to ensuring efficiency among their manufacturing workforce: put a gun to their head.

I’ve been an Apple fan since the 1980s. Like most kids my age, we used Apple II computers at school (you’ll know someone was a real Apple fan–and is really old like me–if they spell the names properly as Apple ][ Plus and Apple //e).

Off the top of my head, here are the Apple computers I owned over the years. I had a Macintosh SE/30 when I started college. I got a Powerbook Duo my later years in college–I remember I was one of the first to ever use a laptop in college and got reamed out in front of the whole class by a professor because he assumed I was playing games (I told him I was taking notes, and he sheepishly apologized but I dropped his class anyway). When I started my first job I asked for–and got–a PowerMac 7200 for work. Since then I’ve used for both work and home Performas, iMacs, Macbooks, iPods, iPads, iPhones, and every Apple product you can think of.

My Apple //e was a workhorse that still boots up 38 years later. I’ve saved all my old Apple products from the 1990s for nostalgia, and to this day I know I can take out my Mac SE/30, the Apple IIGS, and my old PowerMac from storage and have it boot up just like it did three decades ago. Apple had once owned manufacturing facilities in California and Colorado, which is where those products and many more like them came from.

But by the early 2000s, most of its product assembly moved to China, thanks to decisions (supported by Apple) of its ODMs like Foxconn and Quanta. The irony of Foxconn and Quanta, of course, is that they’re Taiwanese companies, and yet they outsourced their production to China–yes, the same China that is buying tanks and missiles that are pointing to them and their families. It’s the ultimate in stupidity, but money makes people do strange things.

Starting around that time, I started to notice my Apple products breaking. I’m sure you’ve experienced the same if you’re an Apple user. Power cables would fray and disintegrate. Keyboards would experience stuck keys or repeated keys. Monitors would blank out. And it all would conveniently happen after the warranty expired. But because of my early experience with Apple, I bought more and more from them, like pigs returning to the trough.

The last straw came with my MacBook Pro 13 inch 2018. I bought the machine for a ridiculous amount of money. But as soon as the warranty expired, I noticed the case started expanding because the battery was swelling. Also, the letters on the keyboard were repeating.

I was happy that Apple had a program in place to replace my keyboard for “free”, but when I took it in to the Apple store the “Geniuses” (a whole bunch of vacuous millennials who don’t know a PRAM from a DRAM) told me I had to pay $200 to get the battery replaced before I could get the keyboard replaced “for free”. Then, as I was preparing the laptop to bring it in for service, the screen broke because the battery had swelled so large.

And the only response from the Apple “Geniuses”? That I was foolish for not buying AppleCare. That’s right, it’s gotten to the point where Apple insults its customers by questioning why they didn’t buy the insurance knowing that their product would fail.

In late 2021, it became clear why Apple never diversified its supply chain out of China. Tim Cook had made deals with China back in 2016 in response to some classic Communist Party blackmail. It seems that the China government was going to crack down on Apple with a whole bunch of regulatory actions, when Tim Cook rushed in to appease them. He signed a deal promising more than $275 billion of business to China-run hardware and software firms, as well as to invest billions of dollars in building up China’s infrastructure and to invest in China tech companies and universities. Where is that $275 billion coming from? A part of it came from every iPhone and Macbook we purchased that was made in China.

But for die-hard Apple fans there is hope. In recent years, no doubt inspired by public outcry when idiotic moves like Tim Cook’s are exposed to the sunlight, and probably helped by the fact that Tim Cook’s 5 year deal is finally coming to a close, Apple has started to direct its suppliers to move more production outside of China.

Most recently, Apple said that it would be shifting some iPad production to Vietnam after the CCP’s disastrous decision to lock down Shanghai’s citizens. This may be a temporary thing until Shanghai’s residents are allowed to go back to work, but if you’re lucky this means you might be able to find a “Made in Vietnam” iPad in the coming months if you look hard enough.

Now before you get too excited, bear in mind that these Vietnamese production lines are owned by BYD, a China conglomerate. Their decision to build a production line in Vietnam is no doubt related to the 2018 tariffs, as was the decision to produce Mac Studio computers out of Malaysia, even though final assembly was done in China.

So yes, a lot of Apple products you see that are marked “Made in Vietnam” or “Made in Malaysia” still have China’s stink on them, but by not being marked “Made in China” you know that a decent portion of the product’s production was outside of China. If your heart is set on Apple, buying one of their products not made in China will at least send a message.

This list is going to be a little different than most of the lists on this site. Most of the products I highlight on this site are made in one place. But because Apple has so few products with so much demand, they’ll often make it in multiple places. So there will be situations where the same product and even the same model number are assembled in different countries.

So inclusion of a product on this list merely means that I’ve confirmed that this product has SOME of its production lines outside of China. But before you buy the product, you should make sure to check that it wasn’t made in China before you buy it. By law, they have to put the country of origin, i.e. where the product has undergone the most “substantial transformation” on the outer box, so make sure you go into an Apple Store or a retailer like Best Buy to double-check before you buy. And set expectations for yourself–despite Apple’s improvements since 2019, 90% of their products continue to be made in China. But if you’re lucky, you’ll be able to find one that’s not (and hold on to it, as it may become a collector’s item).

Well, I have to walk that back a little bit. I bought a pair of AirPod Pros back in early 2020 and I happened to buy a pair that had the horrible crackling noise many early purchasers experienced. But to Apple’s credit, they honored their Service Program and replaced my pair. Bizarrely enough, for my replacement pair the left AirPod was made in China, and the right AirPod was made in Vietnam. But they both seem to work–for now.

If you’re in the market for AirPods, be sure you check the outer box before you buy. Both AirPod 3s and AirPod Pros had been made in Vietnam since 2020, but due to supply chain problems in both Vietnam and China, production has shifted between the two. If you’re buying a pair you’re going to want to verify that the case AND both AirPods are made in Vietnam before buying. If you’re buying from Amazon, take advantage of their Free Returns service. Or go to an Apple or Best Buy store in person.

Apple’s shift of production to Vietnam in 2020 was almost certainly related to the 2019 tariffs imposed by the Trump administration. Let’s hope the Biden administration stays strong and keeps those tariffs in place–as of this writing they have, but some within the administration are pushing for them to be dropped.

A lot of media outlets downplayed or even belittled the news, but I saw it as welcome, if mostly symbolic. Apple could have make a lot more profit if it plowed ahead with its plans to screw over its Austin-based employees, as well as suppliers in multiple states that were supplying parts. But it stuck to its guns.

For years, the Mac Pro had its final assembly done in Austin, Texas, making it the only Apple computer with “Assembled in USA” on its label. But in June 2019, Apple announced that Mac Pros would be made in China. After some negotiations with the federal government, Apple switched courses and announced in September 2019 that it would indeed continue to assemble the Mac Pro out of Austin, in exchange for some tariff exemptions.

As of right now the factory in Austin is still open, and the latest rumors are that the new Mac Pro won’t be announced until 2023, which means you can still get an “Assembled in USA” Mac Pro. You can pick one up at places like B&H, Best Buy, and of course Apple. Just be sure to read the box–China does manufacture these too for customers outside of the US market, so you’ll want to make sure you don’t get one of those.

Starting in 2021, Apple started moving production of the Mac Mini to Malaysia. This wasn’t universal–some were made in Malaysia while others continued to be made in China. But there were lots of happy comments on Reddit from people who received actual Macs not made in China.

The Mac Mini is a small form factor desktop computer that sit somewhere between the entry-level iMac and the professional Mac Studio and Mac Pro. Unlike iMac it doesn’t come with a built-in monitor, but all you really need to do is get an HDMI cable to connect it to your high definition TV.

The next step up is the Mac Studio, which sits between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro and retails for about $2000. There have been reports for some time that at least some of Apple’s Mac Studio computers are being made in Malaysia, out of the same factories that have been making Mac Mini’s. Sure enough, the newest version was just released in March 2022, and there are reports of peoplegetting units made in Malaysia.

The newest version has the blazing fast Apple M1 chip and since it just released you can be assured this won’t get outdated any time soon. You can pick one up at Best Buy or B&H. Just be patient, as there are likely supply chain issues that are slowing down production. And of course, as always, check the box.

The M1 iMac is the entry level Mac, and the only one that comes with a built-in monitor. It is impressive that Apple has managed to diversify the supply chain for all four of its desktop computer lines; their decision was probably initially due to the 2018 tariffs, but hopefully they’ve learned their lesson with the CCP’s draconian lockdowns to control COVID that it’s not smart to put all their eggs in the China basket.

As China has shot itself in the foot with its COVID lockdowns, that has made India a much more appealing option for Apple and FoxConn. Make no mistake–the lion’s share of iPhones will continue to come out of China, but if you’re lucky, you might find a Made in India model. India-made iPhones will be provided to the India market first, of course. But if you’re lucky you might find one in your local Apple Store. Or, you can go for a Samsung Galaxy, still made in free Korea.

In December, Apple announced that it would add up to 15,000 workers in Austin, just miles from the Mac Pro plant. None of the new jobs are expected to be in manufacturing.

Apple, like most big-name computer makers, typically designs its products in the United States, where some of its parts are made as well. In most cases, though, the final assembly is done in places like China, where manufacturing costs are significantly lower.

After saying it would build the Mac Pro in the United States, Apple encountered a range of problems in trying to do so at the Texas plant. Among other issues, Apple struggled to find companies that could produce some of the parts needed for the computers.

Mr. Cook helped lead Apple’s shift to foreign manufacturing before becoming chief executive. The move cut costs and helped provide the company the enormous scale it needed to produce some of the best-selling tech devices ever.

Much of the work was done under contract in enormous factories in China, some of them stretching for miles and employing hundreds of thousands of people to assemble, test and package Apple’s products. The assembly includes parts made around the world.

In January, Apple missed earnings expectations for the first time in 16 years, mostly because of sluggish iPhone sales in China. When the company announced its latest quarterly earnings in April, its profits were down 16.4 percent from a year earlier.

In May, the Trump administration threatened to impose a 25 percent import tax on almost all consumer goods imported from China if the two countries did not resolve their differences. Tariff concerns have prompted Apple to consider other countries, but not the United States, for its manufacturing.

India is not favored due to slow processes, heavy regulations, and poor infrastructure. Indians have already rioted many times which makes businesses not trust them to be dependable.

In USA, we have many regulations dictating what businesses can do and cannot do. It"s usually due to environmental protections and private ownership rights. Our infrastructure is weakening as well. There are a lot of solutions for improving the whole infrastructure like building dedicated highways for autonomous vehicles (which means less traffic and safer than human-driven roads) and high speed rails but we"re stuck with politicians and voters who don"t really grasp the concept of how important those things are. We need to break away from our dependence on "driving" as a symbol of independence or wealth and focus on providing Americans the resilient infrastructure they need.

China delivers as promised. China is ruthless but efficient at making sure it gets done. Also, China has billions of people working. In USA, we have way too many people not working and we just don"t have enough manpower to scale up to demands. China has superior infrastructure and has high speed rails to connect to all major cities. China is already rolling out autonomous vehicles.

In December, Apple announced that it would add up to 15,000 workers in Austin, just miles from the Mac Pro plant. None of the new jobs are expected to be in manufacturing.

Apple, like most big-name computer makers, typically designs its products in the United States, where some of its parts are made as well. In most cases, though, the final assembly is done in places like China, where manufacturing costs are significantly lower.

After saying it would build the Mac Pro in the United States, Apple encountered a range of problems in trying to do so at the Texas plant. Among other issues, Apple struggled to find companies that could produce some of the parts needed for the computers.

Mr. Cook helped lead Apple’s shift to foreign manufacturing before becoming chief executive. The move cut costs and helped provide the company the enormous scale it needed to produce some of the best-selling tech devices ever.

Much of the work was done under contract in enormous factories in China, some of them stretching for miles and employing hundreds of thousands of people to assemble, test and package Apple’s products. The assembly includes parts made around the world.

In January, Apple missed earnings expectations for the first time in 16 years, mostly because of sluggish iPhone sales in China. When the company announced its latest quarterly earnings in April, its profits were down 16.4 percent from a year earlier.

In May, the Trump administration threatened to impose a 25 percent import tax on almost all consumer goods imported from China if the two countries did not resolve their differences. Tariff concerns have prompted Apple to consider other countries, but not the United States, for its manufacturing.

Recently we read about an Apple Patent that talks about Apple’s plans of fitting a whole Mac computer in a Magic Keyboard. This device will essentially be a mix of a MacBook and Mac mini, and allow users to connect to any display.

Turns out people in China are way ahead of Apple and are already using older MacBook Pros without a screen. The news comes from Twitter user DuanRui who says more and more people are buying the MacBook Pro without a screen and use it as a Mac mini.

Since the base of a MacBook already has a keyboard, trackpad and speakers all they need is an external monitor and they have a fully working desktop Mac. The best part about this hybrid DIY keyboard Mac is that you can take it anywhere and use it wherever you like, as long as you have an external display available.

Another Twitter user @Coolmint36 confirmed this phenomena adding that the so-called keyboard Mac is ‘significantly cheaper’ than buying a used MacBook.

These machines originate from MacBooks that had faulty displays. Since it is usually more expensive to fix the display, dealers in China take off the screen and sell the body separately. According to @Coolmint36 this is a “complete market in China”.

While a working MacBook without a display looks weird to look at first, I can totally understand its appeal. I myself use my MacBook Pro in a clamshell mode and would not mind if it didn’t come with a display, especially if I could buy it at a significantly low cost.

Quanta is one of the very many Apple suppliers to have been affected by the "zero-tolerance" COVID lockdowns imposed by Chinese authorities since early April. Most recently, the company"s Shanghai plant had been reported to be slowly resuming production of the MacBook Pro, and other devices.

According to Bloomberg, tensions at the plant led to a riot once workers tried to return to their dormitories after their shifts on May 5, 2022. They pushed by barriers and also guards wearing white protective gear, who attempted to contain the workers.

Announced on Sunday, March 13, the lockdown in one of the world’s busiest tech hubs will force the city’s suppliers and manufacturing facilities to close for at least a week. Apple supplier Foxconn has already announced the temporary closure of several Shenzhen manufacturing sites, one of which produces iPhones.

Of course, multiple factors can impact shipping times, including Apple’s own manufacturing timetable that it sets ahead of time based on sales estimates of its new devices. Supply chain issues caused by the ongoing pandemic are already impacting the tech sector, but the shutdown in an important hub like Shenzhen could cause even more problems in the coming weeks.

I love you man i solve this after i reset everthing on my mac book pro with no anwser and in the black screen i put my password and enter it and is solve !! Have a great day !!

for 1 year I have loved mac book book pro which lights up with a black screen. no external output via hdmi so for me this is not the cause of the graphics cards but a problem of login and especially of the smc chip. Despite the manipulations known as the smc and nvpram reset nothing conclusive. I removed the internal peripherals from the motherboard starting with the battery, and plugged into the mains only once on 5 images but as soon as a restart plus image I tried the same thing without ssd. What was revealing was when I disconnected the trackpad cable suddenly but not permanently, but the keyboard still works. Remove the internal keyboard cable and I plugged in an old g5 power pc keyboard. and the miracle the image came back i was able to reset the ssd via thunderbolt and fire wire from my old g5 erase the ssd in targert mode. reinstall high Sierra and the image and still present, so I reconnected track pad and keyboard then while it was turning the capo open I replanted sofa battery the image of the discharged battery after reset smc and restart the image is fixed finally

I have the same problem. After following your advice, I kept my computer on the sun for half an hour and it started working for a short period of time but then it turned off. Did you find a permanent solution?

Have the black screen, no start up sounds, the 3”ram issue” beeps….nothing has worked yet. I’ve tried everything with no luck. It’s very frustrating. It was working fine until I tried upgrading the OS. It froze in the middle of update, I turned it off and it’s never come back since.

I’ve got the same problem you have. I did all that was suggested, got the onboard sound back but still have the black screen. My 2015 MBP works fine with an external monitor. I even opened it up, unplugged items as suggested on a YouTube tutorial, no luck. It appears I have a cable problem which I’ve read is not uncommon on this year MBP. It began as an intermittent problem but is not full-time black. I don’t have dual cards on this one. Mine appears to have been dropped by the previous owner, but it worked great for about a year before the black screen. No OS upgrade, just black out of the blue.

none for me either … but now after 3 days it worked, I just turned it on closed the MacBook so it goes to sleep, then opened the screen very slowly and waited 2 second… now when I open the screen all the way it turns black again

Hello, I recently bought Macbook Pro 2020 13 inch and my screen has gone black twice – both of the times I was on Zoom and I also had an interface connected to the laptop. The screen only came back on when I closed and opened the lid. What sort of of troubleshoot should I do as I do not wish the screen to go black ever again! Please someone advise. Thank you!

please some one help i have an old macbook black edition 2009 maby its boot to a black screen and i have tried all above methods any one have idea to solve it

Hi, a black display occurred to my MacBook Pro (2014) in September 2019. I am not into computers at all but knowing the Macbook had chimed and that by connecting it to the TV set via HDMI cable it was still working, I took it to the nearest Apple store and was told the display was dead, burnt, and that I had two alternatives, either to repair it at the cost of 450 euros or to continue using an external monitor. I chose the second and bought one for 80€ and used it until July 13th, when all of a sudden on switching my MacBook on I had a shock…I could see the bitten apple and then my desktop and it’s been working okay since then and it’s a complete mystery to me! Maybe it depends on the latest version of the system update, maybe I had started using the combination keys to shut it down recently, I have no idea, but it is working. I expect it to go black again but next time I ‘ll try your tips and I’ll see. Thank you.

It happened again, yesterday, on my first DAD (online teaching) day after the latest dpcm, my Macbook went black without any apparent reason. Just three months of normal summer use and when I need it most it deserts me. I have just tried all of your tips and tricks but nothing’s worked. I do believe it’s been scheduled by Apple somehow, no idea how but it is very very annoying…..

The solution to that problem is to boot into Mac Recovery Mode, then use the Terminal to issue the following commands which move the old kernel extensions into a different folder.

My 12″ Macbook went into black screen by idle sleep in battery mode. There was still haptic feedback to touchpad but no keyboard back-lit. When I tried to connect to external monitor, there was no display too. At least, I knew that it won’t be the display panel issue. I tried power on/off several times, no success.

I have done all three of these, and none get my mac to boot regularly! I can only boot in safe mode to start up. I’m in desperate need of help on this asap please email if you have a real solution I’m running the latest macbook pro 13 inch plz email me

I have a macbook pro mid 2009 model. So the screen just went off like that. I tried SMC reset didn’t work plus others. When I power on my device you hear the clicking sound of the hard drive and the powers off again. What could be the problem?

Thank you so very much! After a full day of rigamarole, booting up an old pc, trying to find my manuscript on my back-up, working in a different version of Word, and the build-up of stress, I searched one more time for something that might restore my mac from the Black Screen of Death. Saw your three steps above, and it booted up perfectly. Can’t thank you enough. Post saved and shared on my personal and business facebook pages. God bless your talents and you for sharing them.

For about two weeks, my 2015 pro would just randomly shut down on me throughout use. Today, I decided to install the new software update -in hopes that it would fix the problem. It would download halfway, then shut down. After retrying 2 times, my screen decided to just go completely black every time I tried to log in. Thank goodness for this article because I seriously thought my mac was done for and I’d have to spend money on either fixing it or replacing it. The PRAM suggestion WORKS!!! Thank you!

Just thought I’d share, I ran into this problem after do an update. Half way through install the screen went black, so I did a restart, did the same thing.

I have the same problem. Service ceter saying i have display problem. But i dnt think so. They ate just making money. My mac is only one year old. How its display goes dark.

I just had this problem on my 2012 MacBook Pro, although pretty old i never have problems with it. i tried all of the recommendations above and none of them seemed to work, after i tried the PRAM reboot, i started looking online for different fixes (on my phone obviously since the laptop wasnt working). while i was searching, my wallpaper came back and the black screen was gone, but the menu bar at the top of my screen along with the folders that are usually on my desktop havent popped up yet.. im hoping giving it some more time will let it fix itself

Hit CMD and R at the same time and restart the sick mac this will start the full recovery proces of the OS , from there it is very easy First erase disk completely the mac was like new … not yet the assistant will show you also how to install a clean new version of IOS and voila it is done

First it booth normal full screen and after 4 hours of use it start again to get dark no control until it only show part of the control bar on top of screen , So i use the thunderbolt to plug my external monitor to confirm that my hardware was fine .

The mac had never give me a black screen since then . So apple this problem is recurring since 2014 on macbook pro , this left me with a bad taste about your respect of your customer

My Mac book booted up to a black screen a couple of times, but entering password and hitting return resolved the issue. The last time that it booted up to a black screen non of the suggestions above worked and it was booting keeping to boot up to a black screen for almost one month. After trying almost any method, I tried to SSH to my laptop from another computer and the dark screen suddenly gone… the positive point is that after experiencing several boot ups to a black screen I noticed that all of the dark screen incidents happened after my macbook went to the “sleep mode.” After resolving the last balck screen incident I changed the setting such that it never goes to “sleep mode.” Fortunately I have not experienced a black screen anymore at least up to now.

My Macbook Pro (2011) has had this issue twice in a row now, and both times, resetting the NVRAM solved the problem. I’m wondering, however, why would this same issue occur twice in a row and be solved by resetting the NVRAM both times? How can I avoid this in the future?

I turned off Automatic Graphics Switching and this seemed to work. I had other problems from a recent Mojave update, so I had to go to an earlier backup of my computer and then got this problem. Now it seems I’m running normally again! Thank you!!

Out of nowhere I kept booting into a grey screen on my MacBook Pro (mid 2015), tried everything, resetting pram, smc and various keystrokes, draining the battery, anything I could find online. Nothing worked. Then I plugged in the external monitor from my desktop Mac Pro with a hdmi cable to see if I could actually see recovery mode that way and suddenly the MacBook screen came to life!

Drain the battery. Hold power button until low battery sign comes on. Keep holding power button and plug in power cord. Will take you to the log in screen.

I had this on my early 2013 MacBook pro retina because of a hardware fault, not exactly sure what’s faulty but I think it’s the graphics chip caused by a faulty screen.

Basically there’s bad connection around the edge of my screen somewhere which makes the graphics all scrambled, putting pressure in different places brings the picture back. I’ve lived with it for years as it doesn’t happen that often. (the scrambled screen would happen while using either the GPU or integrated, I know it’s a fault with the screen, I could also trigger it by turning the brightness down)

One night this happened as I was shutting down the computer, the next morning the screen would not come on.. just black.. and external monitors connected wouldn’t work either, so I think it may have damaged the graphics chip by powering down during the scrambled screen.

Doing this switched the screen back on. On start up I was then told the GPU was not found and the machine would use integrated graphics (which is why I think the GPU is faulty)

Every time I booted the machine after this I would get the black screen and would have to use the same method as above to switch it on even though I tried to uninstall all CUDA drivers etc.

My theory was that the GPU was damaged but the computer was still trying to use it which results in a black screen, tricking it to switch it back to integrated graphics fixed it. Maybe there was some code somewhere telling it to use the GPU.

Unfortunately after the install the screen is now permanently black.. I did manage to get it to come on once.. but don’t know why.. I shut the machine down and closed the lid, left it for about half and hour thinking the computer would never run again.. I opened it up and hit the power button and the screen came on!! After booting Mojave for the first time, I was notified about the absent graphics driver and given the option to download a CUDA driver from the internet, which I did and installed.. hoping that perhaps the problem was just some faulty code on my machine somewhere.. I then plugged an external monitor in hoping the external screen would work, and everything went black again!!! Since then I’ve not been able to get it working, and not sure if I ever will!!

Does anyone know what exactly is happening with this machine? I’m pretty sure the GPU is faulty but don’t know how to bypass it, especially as I can’t ever get the graphics on the machine to display. Machine is booting ok, just the screen not working. Tried all of the above, just waiting for the battery to drain now.

Nothing seemed to work at first. Then I saw the part about draining your battery and restarting. But my battery was at 100% from charging overnight. So then I unplugged the computer and suddenly the screen came on!!!

The first method Control+shift+option+power helps me get the Mac on. I know this since caps lock turns on. But the screen is still black. So I typed my password and it logged in and still black. So I tried clicking randomly with the click pad and my older tabs with Netflix started playing. Once the Siri spoke. Still black screen though.

I have two accounts on my macbook, and black screen was affecting just one of them – whether I logged into it from boot or via fast user switching from the other account, both of which obviously require the password. So it would log in and immediately fade to black. Having tried everything else, I tried entering password again (despite having only just used it to log in) and hitting enter – and it worked!

your last suggestion to connect an external monitor to my MacBook Pro late 2013 2.3gh DG 16MB 2BM works very well although having already replaced the logic card I can stil also ssume that the display I`s also faulty.

i have a 2014 MacBook Pro, None of the solutions worked for me then, I plugged my Mbp into an external monitor via hdmi and I can access everything. I’m in the process of backing up now….and will begin display troubleshooting once backup is complete.

Same problem here, occasionally my MBP mid 2010 boots to a black screen. Entering the password solution works for me but that doesn’t fix the cause of the problem. So after some digging, I figured it out. In my case, it’s the automatic graphics switching. Once disabled, no more black sreen boots.

Same problem here, occasionally my MBP mid 2010 boots to a black screen. Entering the password solution works for me but that doesn’t fix the cause of the problem. So after some digging, I figured it out. In my case, it’s the automatic graphics switching. Once disabled, no more black sreen boots.

If no software solution resolves the Black MacBook screen problem, you may have a hardware problem and should take the computer to Apple or an Apple Authorized Repair center to address and diagnose the hardware issue.

After trying all 3 including putting in the password anyway it did not work for what seemed like ages but then it randomly turned on. The result may not always be immediate. I have the MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012).

If all the above solutions dont work, a faulty video chip driver, bad nvidia gpu chip or ram can cause these issues, although bad ram normally produces beeps upon startup.

Had this problem after running CleanMyMac3. Ran through all four solutions which did not work. Looked on another forum and found a modification to the fourth solution.

“3. Once you reach the point where your screen goes dark and you see the cursor, type the first letter of the username for your computer, then hit Enter, then type your password, then hit Enter.

In my case, the screen works until after I login, then it turns black. If I hold down option and restart into recovery mode, the screen works fine. I tried the PRAM and the brightness and other things, nothing works.

If the screen is not black when logged in as the new user, that suggests something is up with the primary user account you are using, in which case you’ll want to investigate the login items, launch agents, etc, for the user account that is turning the screen black. It’s possible some app or process is loading at the user level causing the issue.

Turn on the computer and wait couple of minutes, then close the screen lid and wait about 25-30 seconds. Open the lid and the password screen would be right in front of you. This is what I did and it works.

None of the three suggested solutions worked for me. What did work was unplugging my laptop and run down the battery overnight. Next morning I pressed the power button and the battery indication came up on screen. I plugged it, pressed power and voila.

Today when I work up my MacBook pro didn’t start.I was worried and started to search for solution.I have tried to start my MacBook pro with those solution but none of them were working.When I tried your solution my MacBook pro start.

I had the black screen happen in the middle of searching the internet. I tried restsrting it a few times, and then I found your article. I tried all three steps and nothing…I had the startup sound and it flashed white a couple o times but even resetting the PRAM didn’t work.

PRAM reset + password fix worked. Before black screen would come on, it was updating software. Finally finished updating after PRAM reset. Battery charger remained yellow until PRAM too. Can’t blame this one on the cat though he does chew through cords!

Tried all the options and the PW reset worked on my MacBook Pro. Then it finished with an install (15 min) left. I get this black screen issue quite a lot—usually it’s the brightness turned all the way down. Not sure why/how that happens. Thank you for the help, needed my computer this weekend to do my mom’s taxes and for a paper due on Sunday, these solutions saved me much frustration!

my 2011 macbook pro was in sleep mode for a week or so. woke to a black screen. rebooted to black screen. tried all these but none worked. found something crazy elsewhere that worked.

on macbook with dual graphic cards. have laptop on and wrap it in blankets. after about 15 minutes. power down and reboot. the heat makes it switch to onboard graphics card. Working fine now for over a week.

I’ve dealt with this all morning – tried all online fixes including wrapping laptop in blanket and singing to it…. I found a video instructing to gently press the black strip at back of laptop when laptop is closed, which DID help enough for the screen to flash on and off, or be fully dimmed but slightly readable (none of this was easy)..

Through all the flashing and dimmness I then managed to get the mouse over to the apple icon (top left of home screen) and saw an update was pending – as soon as the system started to upload the screen came back on 100% perfect – I then followed system required restart and its running like a champ again now…

CHECK ALL SYSTEM UPDATES (as soon as your screen lets you see where your mouse is, or if you have the appropriate cable connect it to another monitor and run all system updates). Cheers for this solution page :)

This has already happened to me 2 times so I will tell you what I have done, I do not know what part of the process is what really works but it works.

My symptoms were: I turned on the mac and it sounded but nothing appeared on the screen. When connecting the hdmi, you could see the apple thing but it did not charge beyond 1/4. So:

2. Go to the safe mode (for this to turn on the mac and then press SHIFT immediately), sign up and try to adjust the brightness manually in settings, also try to change the screen used (tv vs mac) and try again and again to change the colors of the screen and connect and disconnect the HDMI.

Battery went flat. I connected charge, started charging and pressed power on with charger connected (charging successfully). Black screen for about 10 seconds, then apple logo with progress bar at about 90% flashed up then back to black screen. No matter what I did I was back to same scenario after about 20 varied attempts.

I read here that booting may have been completed so on a whim I connected external monitor. Kapowie!! :) The external monitor worked and then the laptop screen sprang back to life briefly afterwards. The resolution was wrong but after disconnecting the external monitor it went back to correct resolution.

Came for more of an explanation of what went on, having already figured out my macbook was on but the display was black. I tried logging in and it worked! Yay! So an upvote for that solution anyway.

I love forums. I have a 2014 MacBook Air. I recently have been broadcasting it to a 2018 32in Samsung TV (via HDMI converter) to give myself a bigger monitor. Over the past couple days I noticed if I just had my laptop (away and unplugged from the TV) my screen would be almost black. My F2 and F3 buttons would sporadically work. I found this forum and tried the “Try a Keypress Sequence to Ditch the Black Screen”. Bippity Boppity Boo. She is running like a pro again on both screens (I am mirroring them at the moment).

A big kiss from france since the keypress sequence solved my problem, which was completly unexpected. Had already done NVRAM and SMC, tried turning the mac target mode to access it. Thought screen was dead and/or Partition corrupted. Panicked. honestly thought this keypress was just a desperate hope. Jesus that saved my day :)

I tried all possible ways and nothing works for my macbook retina display 2012. I’m very disappointed, cos I never had problems with the previous mac computers I had.

I dropped my macbook and then got the black screen problem. These steps didn’t fix it and an external monitor worked, so I figured the drop had jiggled something loose. I closed the laptop, flipped it over, and mashed on the upper right corner. All fixed!

I never usually leave comments of articcles, but this saved my day. This morning I tried to turn on my MacBook but the screen was black. I freaked out and immediately searched online, found this article. Option 1 worked for me, thank you so much!

I had the Black Screen issue then flickering lines. Did all the solutions posted on many sites and none worked. Have got a USB self booting updated to High Sierra and then when loaded tried UNSELECTING Automatic Graphics Switching in System Prefs. My mackbook Pro 2015 is now working again without screen issues. Hope this helps.

My mac book pro was on when I closed the screen and kept it for about a day or two without using it. I opened it and hit the power button. For some reason the screen was dark bluewish and won’t come up. I did a hard shut down and rebooted the system. On pressing the power button, all I could hear is a boot sound and the screen is black with no keyboard light. I tried rebooting it with no success. I connected it to my LG tv using the hdmi cable and found that the system was actually booting successfully but the screen wont display. However, the keyboard light was back. I then try the Pram reset as demonstrated in a video on u-tube by pressing the command, option, R, P and power button together until I heard two boot sounds, then released the buttons at once. I heard a third boot sound as mentioned in the video. It still did not work. I kept the system for about three days trying to figure out what to do. Then just about now I tried the pram reset again as described here. I press the power button and after the booting sound I pressed command, R, option buttons then the screen just resume before I press the P button. I think the Pram reset would have work for me the first time if I had done it as described here. Thanks a lot.

I tried everything and nothing worked. I know there is nothing wrong with the screen since I Frankensteined it with a Mac a year newer and it worked perfectly. Also mine flashed the two times I rebooted it before I got the black screen.

I tried all the different tips but it seems like PRAM worked. I heard the reboot sound twice but the screen was still black. I was pissed off, doing something else and I think I assumed it had gone in sleep mode although I clearly couldn’t see it. So I hit the power button and suddenly light appeared! At this point I was convinced it really was the screen that was broken as the apple logo on the back wasn’t lit either – now it is. I also removed a sticker in front of the webcam because I saw people here wrote about brightness and I wondered if it was unable to adjust properly, so whether it was the sticker or PRAM not sure. But I believe PRAM despite me first thinking it didn’t work, so make sure to try that power button again afterwards! I’m working on my thesis at the moment (had done a back up) so pretty glad it decided to work again as I haven’t the money to go purchase a new one.

I tried all of these and none of them worked! When I turn on my MacBook Pro I hear the chime noise. The screen turns on but, it’s just black. The lights on the keys don’t work either. I fell asleep while holding my laptop and it was still open. I woke up to it on the floor on it’s side, open. I freaked out. I tried closing it and opening it, no luck. I tried plugging it in and pushing the power button. I heard the chime noise but just a black display. When I look at the Apple logo on the back, it lights up but, just a black screen. Please, please, please help me!!

Same here, I tried all of these solutions but the screen still was black – then we UNPLUGGED the Mac cord and it started rebooting. No idea why or what solution worked; but something did. Thank you.

third option worked for me thank you… This is the second mac item I have fixed by myself… First item was my cell phone they wanted almost 300 dollars to take an unbroken screen off to look at my microphone…. I told them no way… I went outside and goggled my possible options and sure enough there was a feature in settings that was off and should have been on and it cost me zero dollars to fix it. Second was this item apple wanted 500 dollars up front to diagnose a problem once again they wanted my money…. I’m now realizing that Apple is a terrible company that is all about the money not about the customer….

RE: I found a similar fix. Had someone call my phone – which is tied to my iCloud account on the laptop. As soon as they hung up, the screen turned back on. This seems like a stretch, but it did really work for me. Thinking it has something to do with iCloud & inability to login to iCloud on restart which was preventing the screen from working. I had tried many other things to no avail…

This happened to me as well. Actually, weirdly enough, this happened out of the blue while the mac was *open and *working! It turned into a black screen. I checked the brightness, and it wasn’t related to hitting the brightness button accidentally.

Eventually after about 5-6 failed reboots, it worked fine. It’s weird cause the black screen booted after about one third of the loading bar was done?!

My MacBook Pro is a 2011 i7 2,7gig dual-core processor, Inted HD 3000 graphic card, 4gb of RAM, 750gb standard harddisk; loads of plug-ins (667 pro audio plug-ins to be exact), heavy profesionnal applications, gamin clients, etc – but the hardisk is hardly two thirds full!

second methode worked for me! i tried many things, after i reinstall the system i still had this problem! after this simple trick , no blackscreen anymore! saves me alot of money! thx alot!

Another fix is to boot while holding down the option key, those lets you select which drive to boot from. Simply repointing the boot to MacHD caused it to boot properly the next time.

Thanks for the great article! I accidentally let my Macbook Pro 2011 run completely out of power on the battery. I knew my black screen was a software related backlight issue. I made it through step 1 and 2 with no success and then tried shining a flashlight through the Apple logo on the back side of the screen. Sure enough, I saw my user icon, clicked it, entered my password, and everything came back just fine. Sounds like step 3 would have probably worked too…but sometimes a flashlight helps :)

Okay, here’s one more thing to try because while the solutions published in the article above did not work for me, a different procedure got my wife’s mid-2009 MBP running again.

OMG, THANK YOU for such a thorough list of suggestions for the black screen boot! Was starting to have a mild panic attack, since I could not get the laptop to start in either Safe or Recovery Mode (or, it may have, but the screen was still black, so not the solution, clearly). I had to reset the PRAM twice, to get the screen to come up, but that fixed the issue.

2. After about 30 seconds you will be at the login screen. You can tell this by pressing backspace a few times and hearing a sound (make sure to turn the sound on and off to make sure you haven’t muted it).

The thing that seems to work the quickest, and the most times for me, is a 2nd screen. Use the HDMI port on the side of you mac and plug it into an external monitor. The external monitor will show your macs contents. Log in and wait a few seconds. Once in, just unplug the external from the Mac and your screen and your screen should work again.

I tried every thing, resetting the PRAM, SMC, Safe Mode..etc…nothing worked. Finally, I unplugged the power cord and turned on the the blank screen and let the battery run down completely. I plugged it back in on the power source, and within 1 hours, the computer came on by itself..problem solved. I have seen others with similar experience, so this was not an original idea.

I tried many things and nothing worked, until I simply entered my password and hit enter! I waited for a bit and then the screen turned on! Thanks a ton!

question: trying to blindly login, and was wondering if my apple ID password is the same for both computers? I tried both the new password for the new computer and the old password on it. it didn’t work. it keeps saying there’s a problem with my ID. My apple ID is the same for both computers insofar as the email address.

nothing working so far to get the black screen to go away, but resetting the pram did something; it shut up the voiceover. This is the Imac running Sierra, 8 yrs. old. my cat knocked it off the table so I suspect a hardware problem. it starts up in text mode it says. no screen, says it’s running Chrome in the back ground. checking with flashlight I see nothing. I’ve been doing these tricks in case it wasn’t a hardware problem, but it did hit the floor pretty hard on one corner…soo..I bought a new Imac. still I’d like to get the old one working if I can learn how. It also makes funny noises now, so must be hardware.

I tried all of the above and they didn’t work for me, BUT I got really frustrated and typed in my password, hit enter and voila I was is. I have the new Mac OS on a 2012 MacBook Air, so I am guessing there are some software incompatibility issues that is causing this problem I’ve never seen before.

None of these worked for me, but I had a software update dialogue box on the blank screen but couldn’t interact with it. On a whim, I tried just typing in my system password onto the blank screen and it then just came to life. No idea what happened, but very relieved to see the screen light up.

I tried all 3 and none worked. When scrolling through the comments I saw something about trying to log into iCloud. That still wasn’t it. So I clicked around until I saw the blinking type key pop up and I typed in my password. VIOLA! I can see my screen again.

This happened after I put my macbook to sleep. Tried first 2 solutions, did not work. All I could see whenever I restart or reboot is the login screen. Before trying PRAM reset, I decided to try a password reset instead.

On login screen > select the little “?” icon next to the field box, which will show the hint to your password > forgot / reset password through itunes.

I tried all the usual pram smc resets without success. In the end I shined a torch through the apple logo on the lid of my computer. I saw the login box faintly through it and then I logged in as normal and my MBP came alive again and the black screen disappeared

I tries all of the above with no luck. Funnily, what worked was to leave it on while the screen was black, close the lid and then open the lid again. It’s back to normal now.

Thanks for these great tricks. My MacBook Air 2013 wasn’t rebooting when turned on and it kept showing only a black screen. Of course I was feeling bummed and thought about going to the Apple Store but your help allowed me to fix it myself. The first two suggestions did not work but luckily the last one did! Thank you!!!

None if the 3 worked, occasionally my background was popping up, tried the extra screen, kept reading what everyone did, eventually read someone said shift+s I think it was, had to use apple id to get back in, had issue with keychain for a bit, still checking to be sure everything is ok

I finally booted in Safe Mode (hold Shift for a few seconds while pressing the Power button just once). In a Guest user session, I performed a quick scan of the system with Disk Utility, and finally I enabled FileVault in Preferences which prompted a reboot that took me back to normal.

After none of the 3 options worked, I turned my MacBook Pro back on and as soon as I got back to having a black screen with just the cursor , I just clicked on the screen (any place should work) then blindly typed in my password and hit enter. This brought me right back to where I was at before the problem and it hasn’t happened since. Hope this helps at least one person.

When my wife’s 2012 macbook pro does this I just plug in an external dvi video adapter and the video comes right back. It’s a whole lot quicker and easier than resetting everybody.

Thank you so much. The last one worked after multiple attempts. As someone else mentioned you need to do it precisely before the screen light comes on right with the second chime.

I called Apple since the above didn’t work. They told me to hit RETURN, my user password, and then RETURN again and my computer came back! It was as if there was something blocking the login screen.

Guys you are awesome. I can’t thank you enough. You have taken a huge weight off on shoulders. The third method worked perfectly on my MacBook Air. The first two didn’t. Thanks agin

I own a late 2013 MBP. My screen was black but I could hear the startup chime. I tried all 3 of your options to no avail. I knew my monitor was not simply too dark because I have it hooked up to an external monitor as well.

The answer was that I had to un-connect my (OEM) Ethernet adapter that connects to the USB. As soon as I unhooked it my screen showed up. I hope this helps someone else. Simply un-connect everything.

My girlfriends 2010 macbook pro had this happen. I could log in but then the screen was black. Checked all the basics, screen brightness etc. Did PRAM, Safe Mode, and SMC. Did not fix. I knew the desktop was running because I got a notification in the top right corner about “No backups for 379 days” on top of the black screen.

a mi me paso lo mismo, no me funcionaron las 3 soluciones esas, abre la macbook y desconecte la batería y la volví a conectar y así me volvió a funcionar

I had the problem of my mac starting and the screen being blank but with the longer showing. I could 4 finger scroll and the dock would appear then disappear as soon at I moved the pointer. Simple fix was restart to the black screen and type my password in and hit enter. It worked. It looks like the login screen was there. It not showing.

Thank you so much. The Pram reset plus typing my password in randomly wh