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Stage light effect along the bottom of my MacBook Pro screen

My MacBook Pro shows uneven bright patches along the bottom edge, like spotlights, and sometimes the screen goes dark when I open the lid all the way. Is this the flex cable issue, and can it be fixed without a whole new display?
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ira_tech Oct 22, 2026
alexr
Which year is it? On the 2016-2017 13 inch models that pattern is the well known display cable problem - the ribbon wears a little every time the lid opens, and the first sign is uneven bright patches along the bottom edge that get worse as you open the screen wider. Apple did run a service programme for some of those, it has probably run out by now but ask anyway. Keeping the lid under about 90 degrees buys time, but the fix is a cable or display replacement, not a setting.
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