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About a month ago about a 2" wide grey semi-transparent vertical bar appeared on the display. After changing the background color to blue, I noticed it has ghosting. Before I tear into it, I wanted to ask the community if you have seen this before? I’m guessing it’s either the flex cable, or the display itself. A $15 flex cable is easy enough to replace. However, if you’ve seen this same issue and it was the display, I’ll probably just sell it as-is on ebay and go ahead (it’s about that time) and move up to a M1 or M2 (will probably go with a mini this time around). Thanks. I took screenshots of the display, and the line doesn’t appear in the images. So, are photos that I took with my phone.
Photo (below) zoomed and cropped to show the ghosting letters; The vertical bar is the same size as the one shown above.
Apple display flex cable is never easy to replace. The broken cable is fused with the screen, so this is going to be a costly repair.
Sorry this is a T-CON scanning issue. It will need a new display assembly to fix as the T-CON is part of the assembly.
