



Keep holding down the shift key until the boot progress indicator shows up. This is very easy to do: simply hold down the shift key on your keyboard as soon as you hear the Mac startup chime. One time-honored trick to recover from a white screen is to boot into Safe Mode. However, if you find yourself a victim, please let us know in the comments section below! Update: Ma– Because the White Screen of Death is a hardware/firmware issue, we are reasonably confident that it will not occur on M1 Macs under adverse startup conditions. In this article, we’ll describe some steps that you can take to recover from the dreaded white screen. There is no Apple logo on this display, nor will you see a progress bar showing where you are in the Mac boot process. You’ll know when you’ve been hit by this bug when you boot up your Mac and see a blank white display. Usually, this rare bug happens after updating macOS to a new version, but it can happen at any time. This poor MacBook Air is experiencing the “white screen of death”įrom time to time, you may experience one of the more frustrating Mac glitches – a white screen during boot.
