Screen turns black for a second

@babraham Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Please let us know if this continues to happen. If you’re able to grab a screen recording when it happens that would be helpful – though if it’s intermittent that may be hard to do. I’ve went ahead and logged this with our team so they can take a look into this. 🕵️‍♀️

Hi! Thanks for bringing up this issue!

Could you turn off the “Automatic graphics switching” setting in “System Preferences > Energy Saver”? We are investigating a bug in this area and would like to see if this option is part of the problem!

Done! I’ll let you know what happens

With “Automatic graphics switching” disabled the problem went away. Also switching tabs back to a figma canvas became faster. Before, there was a very short pause when I switched to a figma tab. This occurred almost all the time. This issue went away as well.

Unfortunately my laptop also started running hotter. Because I often use it in my lap, I decided to reenable “Automatic graphics switching”.

@babraham That makes sense. Thanks for testing it out for us – we are still looking into this issue and see if we can mitigate it from our side.

@babraham Could you send us your computer’s spec? You can get to it by doing this:

The problem still exists. I have the same macOs and hardware cofiguration as babraham.

I have a similar problem but on windows. And it also states that there is a problem with WebGL. What do i do?

This problem also happens for me! macOS Catalina 10.15.7. Same hardware as barbrican (16 inch Macbook 2019 MacBook Pro)

Same problem here!
I too am still on Catalina, if that’s relevant.

I have same problem

I have the same problem on Windows10 Lenovo laptop. Appreciate any suggestions

Have the same thing on Windows 11, it’s been happening for a long time

I am experiencing problems with Figma crashing, canvas turns black but today my Figma turns black 10 times in 5 minutes it’s too irritating please fix this issue.

this post is helpful

Hello my Figma is turning black for a lot of times now, I am using windows 11 with MSI pc. This was the closest topic that I found but not sure what to do with this. I have closed Figma app and then open but still the entire Figma goes black and then to normal.