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MacBook Air 2018 13-inch - pink screen of death fix? in c/apple@hardware.watch
[–] melodyren@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what does M* series mean? 🥲 please be patient with my non-techy self lol

MacBook Air 2018 13-inch - pink screen of death fix? in c/apple@hardware.watch
[–] melodyren@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just learned about Flexgate today and I’m guessing it’s the reason for both of our laptops acting this way! This is what another comment told me:

“Flexgate is a manufacturing fault that affects all MacBook Air's made primarily from 2018-2019 and all MacBook Pro's from 2016 to 2019. Flexgate is where the main display cable ribbon cable tears under normal use, such as casually opening and closing the display.”

And from other comments I’ve received, the answer is either completely swapping the display or getting a new laptop.

But we’re in this together so I hope your laptop is still okay and can be used 🥲🥲🥲

MacBook Air 2018 13-inch - pink screen of death fix? in c/apple@hardware.watch
[–] melodyren@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you so much, this was very helpful and I appreciate it a lot!!

I don’t have AppleCare+ lol 😭 so I will bring it to a repair shop and try my luck there, but am looking at options for get a refurbished one as well (whichever is cheapest 🥲).

Thank you again!!

MacBook Air 2018 13-inch - pink screen of death fix? in c/apple@hardware.watch
[–] melodyren@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

True! Pink is my favourite colour 😅

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MacBook Air 2018 13-inch - pink screen of death fix? (alien.top)
 

Hi!

So, my MacBook Air 2018 13 inch displays this pink glitch screen each time it turns on (please see photo).

A 2 days ago, it only showed this when I moved my screen a certain way but if I moved it forward a bit, it displayed normally & also connected to my external monitor.

Today, I made the mistake of bringing my laptop to work with me and now it’s stuck on the pink glitch screen no matter what I do. It won’t display anything on my external monitor either. I’m not sure if it got worse because I moved it around today but either way, I’m sad lol

I’m going to bring it into Genius Bar for a look, but I also want to avoid an expensive fix or getting a whole new laptop if possible because money is a little tight right now…but I would prefer getting it fixed rather than buying a new once if this can be fixed even!

I just wanted to see if anyone else had any experience with this or if there is anything else I should know? Thank you!