Screen flickers when highlighting text

[Conquest]

NEW UPDATE TO MY LAST UPDATE:  THE BUGS ARE BACK. I just installed ID's update 19.0.1 and now when I select text with the rulers visible...screen flashes white!  When I hide the rulers and select the text there is a slight flicker.  This no longer strikes me as a Mac bug, but how will we know until Adobe releases an update for the M2 chip. What is taking so long??

HOLD THE WEDDING!  I just updated Sonoma to 14.1. and SUDDENLY I was able to turn on GPU which was previously grayed out.  The flickering has stopped with the rulers visible in ID on my MacBook Air  M2 -- HOORAY. I suppose it was Sonoma and not Adobe's problem.  THIS IS NOT REALLY FIXED (see above)

This is driving me crazy. I have the latest version of InDesign on a MacBook Air M2; I have 32 GB Ram and 1 TB hard drive. Every time I selecr text by highlighting it in the text frame, the screen flickers like crazy then goes white util I release the mouse button.I just updated the OS to Sonoma. Hiding the rulers stops the flickering BUT I need to have the rulers visible, so when I drag a guide I can see where I'm putting it. The flickering makes guide placement impossible. I'd say this is a MAJOR bug that Adobe better be working night and day to fix. The bug also affects MacBook M1 which is supposedly compatable. 

[blastman2013]

Sonoma 14.3.1 update is installed and also solved the flashing bug for me too...
Mac mini - intel i7 6 Core and Intel UHD 630 using InDesign 19.2.

Such a relief!

[WriterJeff]

On an M3 MBP running Sonoma 14.3.1 the flicker can still make InDesign unusable on my external monitor. As I've mentioned before, setting Preview on CPU under the View menu fixes the problem, but it also significantly degrades InDesign performance.

@mgdibblee suggested a fix on her M3 MBP. She changes screen resolution and display gamut, and I don't want to do that. But one change she suggests is easy to make and does reduce the flicker enough that I can live with it.

The change is this: under Displays in System Settings, change the built-in display refresh rate from ProMotion to 60Hz. (This matches the refresh rate of my external monitor.) Sometimes with this setting the flashing and blackouts disappear entirely; mostly they are infrequent and I can work.

[stugent]

I'm on Sonoma 14.1.2., whenever I connect to an external display, I have the same issue. When I switch of the rulers (as someone in this thread suggested), it's resolved. But obviously sometimes you need the rulers. 

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

Did you read any of the information here? Update Sonoma!

[CohenClarke]

Turned on GPU Performance on my Macpro M2 and this stopped for me. It was still happening as of latest update, Dec2024, and finally googled about it, and I tried that (actually wouold have assumed is was already turned on), and that stopped that bug. I lived with it for last year or so, def super annoying trying to select and edit text with that happening everytime.