Indesign Flashing Screen When Moving Objects

[Daisy5CF5]

Hello

I am using indesign on my 14inch macbook pro apple m1 monterey. Each time I move an object the artboard & background workspace flashes. I have checked and both my indesign & macbook softwares are up to date. 

I have noticed it seems to happen when I drag the indesign window from my main macbook screen to my seperate monitor. That seems to activate the glitch and then it flashes each time I move an object on both my macbook & monitor screen.

Hoping theres a way to fix this thanks

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

Try unticking GPU Performance under the GPU Performance tab in InDesign preferences. 

[nathanielhiller]

I had the same problem and that worked!

[CoffeeBreath]

Same here. Unticking GPU Performance fixed it for me.

[Gene33835152ifj0]

It did solve the flickering but. When I select text on a colored background, the whole text box turns to white. I revert it back and it is okay. But back to flickering...

[unwz]

Indesign is 20.0.1 and MacOS is Sequoia 15.1.1: Closing rulers, hiding the guides, screen mode normal or preview; nothing changed! It blinks when I move anything... objects or text area, even when I drag the artwork area with space + mouse... Please urgent help!

[unwz]

Problem solved as: MacOS is same, just installed the Indesign 19.5 and in 20.0.1 I saved my documents as imdl and open in Indesign 19.5 and the flashing/blinking gone! (I know, they do not want us to use the same machine more than 4 years!!!)

[Bo24385881ocn7]

Thank you so much! This worked!

[deesign2]

THANK YOU!!!

[shan25593907h30p]

does windows have any fix for this?

[kimberley.mclean]

Thank you!

[Tapestry_003]

I had the opposite - it was unticked, but ticking it resolved the issue!  

[davidlee1956]

Same with me! I unclicked it and it worked. So glad to find answers when these things happen!

[JGCreate2010]

I just upgraded my iMac to Sonoma 14.0 and the flashing got worse. 

I went into Indesign preferences and ticked the GPU Performance tab and it solved the problem.

I guess Apple did something to the new operating system that solved the original problem.

[CoffeeBreath]

I also updated my14 inch MacBook Pro M1 Max to Sonoma 14.0, and the flashing came back. (Prior to 14.0, I was getting a flashing screen, and unchecking the box resolved it.) This time, checking the "GPU Performance" box in InDesign > Preferences > GPU Performance resolved the flashing screen.

[Rachel.at.HeardCreative]

This did not work for me after the Sonoma 14.0 update — any other ideas?

[Rachel.at.HeardCreative]

Should mention that it's really still prevalent in Overprint Preview mode, but the GPU Performance did help with the normal mode flashing.

[CoffeeBreath]

Ahhh you're right @Rachel.at.HeardCreative.

With GPU Checked: I switched over to Overprint Preview, and now when I use the marquee tool, the screen turns white when I am drawing a box with the selection or direct selection tool. If I turn off Overprint Preview, the screen no longer turns white when drawing a box.

If I uncheck GPU, then I get a white screen when selecting with the marquee tool whether Overprint Preview is on or off.

For now, the only thing I can figure out is to turn on GPU, and avoid overprint preview... which isn't ideal to say the least.

[CoffeeBreath]

Just found that with Overprint Preview on, the problem goes away when I turn off rulers. (View > Hide Rulers)

[Rachel.at.HeardCreative]

Winner, winner! That did work! Thank you so much for that fix @CoffeeBreath. Annoying, but a good workaround until something is done on the back end.

[CoffeeBreath]

Thanks go to Oles26013932k96q. They mentioned the rulers thing in a comment from earlier.

[Christel23191330wocb]

@CoffeeBreath Thanks for sharing these solutions! Agree with @Rachel.at.HeardCreative 

[Jimmy Palacios]

That worked for me as well. Thanks.

[Marcus30397854yp20]

That also worked for me. thank you! 

I had also recently updated to Sonoma, and InDesign 2024, and I started getting this annoying white flicker when attampting to edit anything, especially text. Turning GPU off didn't fix it. But turning Rulers off did fix it. 
Let's hope this is ironed out by devs soon. 

Thank you all for sharing advice. 

[Hilary5EDF]

Turning off rulers really improved things. GPU performance does not work as my LG monitor does not seem to be recognised by the preference system.