MacBook Pro Screen Saver Turned To Yellow

Question

MacBook Pro Screen Saver Turned To Yellow

Yesterday, I took a break from my work and came back to find the screen on my MacBook M4 Pro was yellow.

"That's weird!" I thought to myself. I didn’t change any settings for anything recently, I just walked away for about 20 minutes. I assumed the worse, but when I swiped the keypad my system woke up as usual.

Today, my wife’s laptop (different model with external display attached) exhibited the same behavior!

I’ve read a bunch of other community posts claiming it’s Night Shift settings, or a slow-motion video screen saver issue, or the default screen saver color issue, or an incomplete screensaver download issue, or a hardware issue related to iMacs, iOS version related, etc...

This issue seems oddly specific (yellow?). Does anybody REALLY know what is causing this?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.5

Posted on Jul 17, 2025 3:19 PM

Reply

Answer 1

Jul 17, 2025 5:54 PM in response to Christopher Nettles

Christopher Nettles wrote:

Yesterday, I took a break from my work and came back to find the screen on my MacBook M4 Pro was yellow.

This issue seems oddly specific (yellow?). Does anybody REALLY know what is causing this?

try a different screen saver and compare your results...

To be proactive you can file a bug report / submit your Apple Feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

The current release of Sequoia is your is macOS 15.5

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

If you customized your Color Profile try returning to default settings for the exact Display in question...

or make some change to compare your results

Reply