Minor LCD burn ins on my mac?

Andyy58 · June 7, 2018

So I am currently running an external monitor off the HDMI of my late 2013 13' MacBook pro retina, and for the last few days, since I never really found myself needing the second display of the MacBook itself, I closed the screen so it wasn't wasting power, but yesterday, as I was using discord on the MacBook display, I noticed when I opened a new tab that some of the UI had burnt in and looked kind of like an overlay onto whatever I was on. It was very minor, and hard to notice, but it was there.

I also noticed two marks where the display is brighter in a way that looks like the LCD backlight got impacted there, even though to my knowledge there has been nothing that could've damaged it. I turned the brightness on the mac display all the way down so it was completely off, and after a while of being like this, the burn-ins were gone, but then leaving it sitting there for a bit more left some burn-ins of the dock UI.

I have a suspicion that this could have been caused by the screen being heated during use, as it was closed on top of the cooling, but I'm not sure, because I don't know if heating really affects displays.

Today the burn-in problem is gone as far as I can tell but does anyone know why it happened, or what the two marks are and if they can be fixed without going to apple and trying to reason with their "Genius Bar"?

I've included some pictures showing the two marks on the display

(sorry for the bad formatting this is my first post on a site like this)

DrMacintosh · June 7, 2018

It is possible that these are from using the display in clam-shell mode, those marks are about where the most heat is on the machine. However burn it would not be a result of excess heat being exposed to the display.

Those marks will not go away unless the display is replaced. 2013 models should have a myriad of options to replace the display but finding a highly rated repair shop is harder than it sounds. I would not go to the Apple Store to get service on a machine this old.

Andyy58 · June 7, 2018

5 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

It is possible that these are from using the display in clam-shell mode, those marks are about where the most heat is on the machine. However burn it would not be a result of excess heat being exposed to the display.

Those marks will not go away unless the display is replaced. 2013 models should have a myriad of options to replace the display but finding a highly rated repair shop is harder than it sounds. I would not go to the Apple Store to get service on a machine this old.

Thanks, that makes sense. I think I'll just use it like this for the moment, the marks aren't too prominent and definitely aren't enough of a reason to replace the screen for me right now anyway. I'll just make sure to keep the display up in the future.