Colors between Camera Raw and Photoshop are not consistent?

I wonder if this is predominantly an issue on M1 chip macs and dual displays?

It seems that Apple have 'changed' the display sensing/ display description on those Macs to show displays as "unknown", internally rather than by name.  

I was speaking to the developer of basICColor display 6 software about this today and he came across the issue, for which he has had to develop a workaround. Of course it's been reported to Apple but as their "issue with LUT type ICC profiles" has been around since OSX 10.12 and much reported, maybe a fix will not happen anytime soon.  

If anyone would like to test display 6 on their mac which is showing this issue it would be great to have feedback: https://www.colourmanagement.net/products/basiccolor/basiccolor-display-software/

I hope this helps
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@NB, colourmanagement @D Fosse That's not working for me since Photoshop already automatically opens on the external monitor, which is set as main monitor. The only workaround, as I said, was setting the Benq profile as the laptop profile too. 

Yeah, it could actually be as simple as that: drag it over and close. If necessary, do it a couple of times until it sticks.

This could explain why it always seems to happen with laptops, where one can assume there is a bit of moving applications back and forth, as well as disconnecting the external when the laptop is used alone. On a desktop system you don't do any of that.

When I've come across this issue it's been, as D. Fosse writes that the Adobe application is picking up the wrong profile (the profile for the other display).

This can usually be fixed by making sure that the Abobe app actually opens on the display you want to use it on. (because iut seems that's the point at which the app picks up the ICC profile).

Example, using a laptop or MacBook with an external screen.

The external will be used for serious edit work so that’s the icc profile we want to be loaded. 

Photoshop opens on the macbook. 

Drag the Photoshop window to the screen you want to use.

Quit Photoshop

Next time you open Photoshop it should open in the correct screen and with the correct colour profile. 

I hope this helps
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This is a problem that turns up from time to time, always in a laptop + external monitor configuration.

What happens is that one application (usually ACR) uses the wrong monitor profile. Here, it sounds like it's using the laptop monitor profile even if the app itself is on the external monitor. Hence the oversaturation.

There is a bug here somewhere, and the fact that this happens on both MacOS and Windows does indeed point to Adobe. But it's elusive, probably because it happens rarely enough to go under the radar.

The only workaround I know of is to make sure Photoshop and ACR is on the primary display as set in the operating system. That seems to always correct it. Obviously, it shouldn't happen at all. Photoshop/ACR/Bridge etc should always use the monitor profile for whatever display they're sitting on. And most of the time, they do.

There is a thread on the feedback forum (the official bug report channel) that I hoped would get some traction. It got to "we'll send this over to the color management team" and that was it so far.

EDIT: one more thing. The BenQ software is known to be extremely buggy, and cause similar problems. So that could well be part of it. But this sounds more like the general bigger picture problem. It has also been reported with Eizo ColorNavigator, which is otherwise a rock solid piece of software.