(New to Anki) Blank Screen on 2.1.49

Just to confirm:

  • are you on the latest version of MacOS?
  • do you have any add-ons installed?

You can try the latest beta (both Qt5 and Qt6 versions).

In another thread a user suggested that opening Anki with a flag to disable the gpu helped them. To try that, open the terminal app, paste the following, and hit enter:

/Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/anki --disable-gpu

If that doesn’t work, the output from the terminal might give a clue, so paste it here.