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Typing does not show on screen until moving the cursor, same with scrolling and opening and closing apps. Runs beautifully in safe mode. Hardware test shows nothing wrong. My first Mac and stumped on what’s wrong. I’ve formatted and reinstaled the latest Mac update. And reset smc and pram or whatever it was that Apple chat support told me to do. Really don’t want to take it to Apple as they are expensive. Since it runs fine in safe mode I think it’s something in the software but not sure how to find out what
This sounds very much like software if it is not occurring in Safe Mode. Could still be hardware since Safe Mode also removes certain things that make the OS more visually appealing (but more resource heavy). But it wouldn’t be my first thought. When you formatted and reinstalled the OS, did you restore from a backup? If so, the backup could have reintroduced whatever was causing the issue. If you reinstalled the OS clean, and no extra software or anything and the issue still occurs, I would lean into hardware, unless it showed up after an update.
