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

[Oles26013932k96q]

MacBook Pro M1Max here and a similar issue is experienced. Although, turning off the GPU helps, the whole experience suffers by becoming sluggish. What I have identified is that turning off the rulers resolves the flickering effect (View -> Show Rules). This is of course applicable only if you can work without the rulers.

[elin.o]

This trick worked for me – thank you! I've been seeing the flicker even when just hovering over objects in some documents. In my case, I turned the rulers back on right away and the color remained stable. We'll see how long it holds, but it's an easy workaround even if it's temporary. A quick command-r to turn rulers off and back on doesn't even disrupt the workflow.

[Sarah31983458ok0o]

ticking/unticking the GPU didn't fix anything for me - but hiding rulers did...but, i'd really like a fix that keeps my rulers visible.

[RForester]

Thank you, thank your, thank you!!!

[lexs129]

Thank you so much - i thought i was going crazy or it was time to replace my computer...

[Portz]

Turning off the rulers worked for me but unticking GPU Performance did not.

[israelmelendez]

Yes! This worked for me too! By ticking GPU back resolved the issue!  

[Minnepolitan]

I'm having this issue too in Sonoma Running the 18.5 INDD update

GPU is unticked

Overprint is unchecked

Display Performance is "typical"

I need the rulers, so there has to be a fix where you can actyally use the tools you need.

This is frustrating for me, but is a potential neurosensitivy issue for people that could be triggered by this. 

Adobe...what is the fix?

[leo.r]

@Minnepolitan : The fix is to downgrade to Ventura as InDesign doesn't officially support Sonoma yet.

You may find more info in this thread and the links there:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-screen-bug/td-p/14119986

[danpinho]

What works for me:
After a major OS update I always perform a clean install. Actually I work with Indesign daily on my Mac Studio M1 and my MBP M1 and never experienced a flickering window, Intel or ARM processor.

Hope it helps.

[leo.r]

Another possible fix is reported here (set Live Screen Drawing to Immediate):

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-sonoma-14-0-and-adobe-creative-suite.2404861/post-3258619...

[spotonjohnny]

InDesign Flashing Screen still present on 18.5 on M2 MacBook Air - very frustrating. Hide rulers seems to work, but this really needs to resolved.

[spotonjohnny]

Unfortunately, even in InDesign release 19.0 the white screen flashing persists. I found it can happen occasionally even without the rulers. Very disappointing. Adobe, please fix this bug!

[BobLevine]

While it may turn out to be an Adobe bug to fix, this happened only when the operating system changed, so keep an open mind...this may well be Apple's bug to fix.

[defaultwx17578bvvo0]

None of the solutions below have worked for me. Has anyone found any other solutions?

[BobLevine]

So, you've turned off rulers? You've enabled GPU Performance? You've rolled back to Ventura?

[defaultwx17578bvvo0]

I can't get back to Ventura as I'm on a company machine and they won't allow it, but yes, I tried the other two options. However, I finally updated INDD and it's gone! So I guess it was fixed in the newest update.

[Norma5C5D]

What version of INDD did you update to that resolved it? I thought I was on the latest and it still happens (if I don't turn off the rulers). I can't go back to Ventura either, I'm on a company computer and they say it will wipe my hard drive. ummm nope. 

[defaultwx17578bvvo0]

my INDD is updated to version 19.0

[Meagan2389073359dw]

Having the same problem every time I click the mouse, but unticking GPU performance didn't fix it.

[BobLevine]

Then turn off the rulers or role back to Ventura.

[Meagan2389073359dw]

Oh weird. thank you.

[Meagan2389073359dw]

yeah, rolling back to ventura was the only thing that really worked.

[Rachel.at.HeardCreative]

Updating to OS Sonoma 14.1 and InDesign v19.0 has seemed to help significantly with this issue — even with the rulers on! Will report back if this changes.

[haralds64176918]

It is now November 2023 and this annoying problem has still not been solved. This week's update has even exacerbated the problem. Now parts of the document are completely hidden when you try to select text. You have to hide the rulers to be able to work at all. But we need the rulers!!!

Jesus Christ, what are those guys at Adobe actually doing?