Yeah I did a lot of thinking and more handling of my daughter’s 15 and I will go with the 15 Plus. I want the larger display and the beefier battery. On rare occasions I have ended up doing emergency vigils at urgent care when my mom has gotten sick and it’s not always easy to charge my phones in those situations.
And I don’t want to be messing around with the inconsistency of the smaller display’s waves.
I’m on my 15 Pro Max just to make this post and check the forum before I go to bed.
I am now certain I am seeing horizontal grey bands on the display. They are as far apart as the lines of text are.
I see them even on my home page. I noticed them on day one but was wondering if it’s something I’ve always seen but just dismissed and was only noting them because I was so conscious of my sensitivity. But no, they’re really a feature of the display of this phone. I didn’t see them on my other phones.
Nobody else sees them. They are perfectly horizontal and do not move up or down. I thought they might be after images from the lines of text. But they’re everywhere! Even on wide clear screens.
What on earth am I seeing? 🤪
Subjective speaking, if I were not as sensitive I'll go with the iPhone 15 plus myself. I do love the form factor and the camera.
Also personally, I found the iPhone 15 plus's main camera to be much more natural looking than the pro model's.
That is because for this year, Apple chose to only upgrade the main lens in the non-pro models, while giving the "periscope lens" hardware to the pro max model.
Thus the remaining non-pro models did not get the updated camera lens hardware upgrade in the main cam.
I did spent the most time with the iphone 15 Plus at the Apple store btw. Subjectively speaking again, the camera is such a joy to use.
As far as what you have visually saw with the horizontal grey bands on the display, it is unlikely the flicker caused by panels. If it is indeed flicker, the entire screen brightness will subtly flicker, rather than to show up as bandings artifacts. As these can only be captured via the camera's rolling shutter.
If you are able to see it visually pulsing, then it is more likely that you were able to percieve the flicker.
Personally, I would believe that it is likely a result of a soon to be faulty panel. As Apple engineers today have taken efforts to ensure that flickering does not go below 40 hertz where we'll see it visually flickering anyway etc .
I do have an iphone 7 plus today that suddenly occasionally shows grey lines flashing along the screen. Indeed after a month the screen panel starts flashing entirely black periodically.
I do think if this is much of a concern, changing to the iphone 15 plus might indeed still the better option for you. As you have mentioned, the inconsistency of the iphone 15 smaller display’s waves is something you might not be able to handle well with.
