I’m running into a strange display glitch in Scrivener (latest version, 3.4) on my MacBook (mac os 15.2). Typing itself works fine, but when I insert new lines with Enter or jump back with Backspace, the editor glitches:
A line of text suddenly disappears from view
The bottom line of text is displayed twice
Or only a few millimeters of the last line of text are visible, making it look like unreadable gibberish.
This only affects the way the text is displayed, the content itself remains intact and reappears once I scroll, type, or otherwise refresh the editor. I’ve added a video to show the glitch, not sure if this works though.
Has anyone else experienced the same behavior and knows a solution?
Is there a reason you don’t run the latest Version of macOS 15? The latest version is 15.6, and since Scrivener uses Apples TextEngine, maybe the glitch you described has been fixed since 15.2.
I work as an illustrator and I avoid updating macOS while working on a book project (there’s always the risk that my ancient drawing tablet or scanner might stop working after an update.) As for whether this is an Apple TextEngine issue, if the problem doesn’t appear in other writing apps, isn’t it possible that it may be more specific to Scrivener rather than the underlying text system?
Check TextEdit specifically, as applications like Word use their own toolkits.
FWIW, display glitches are fairly common in early versions of any Mac OS release.
From our perspective, we wouldn’t consider it an actionable bug unless we were able to reproduce it in the current Mac OS version. (And even then, if it derives from the text system there might not be much we can do.)
