I have an annoying thing on my MacBook where video seems to be jumping back and forth in brightness/saturation. Feels like HDR is being turned on and off every few seconds depending on what is on screen. A quick Google search led me nowhere. Does anyone know what my issue is and how to fix it?
Things I've checked that haven't worked:
❌ True tone
❌ Auto-brightness
@Techaltar my guess would also be something to do with auto brightness, I’d turn it off for a few days just to see if that fixes it or not.
Then you have a little more information and might have some luck with a google search.
There’s always the Apple Store, I’ve heard they’ve got pretty good customer service so maybe they can help
@Techaltar I weirdly have the exact same problem in Manjaro on my pc, also with an HDR monitor. Not sure why, but the display brightness seems to be linked to the contents of the screen. This means that typing white on black text will cause the display brightness to "flutter"
@Techaltar@jaydead Oh that’s interesting - is yours an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro?
It would’ve been the Preset option where it lists “Colour LCD”.
This is what it looks like on mine, which their XDR display is HDR compatible, which is why I would’ve assumed that’s what you were seeing on yours is it switching back and forth.
Maybe it’s just acting weird trying to emulate HDR in SDR color space?