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iOS 14.5 Beta 5 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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This has nothing to with the update. The screen issue you show happens on all OLED screens since the first OLED smartphone introduced by Samsung years ago. This is because pixels are completely turned off when black background is displayed, once you scroll pixels turn on but it takes a little time until it shows the pixel and in the mean time you see this purple color. If you increase the brightness the problem goes away, because the electrical currency is increased.

You can find the same problem on iPhone X back in 2017 if you search "iPhone X screen ghosting" on YouTube.

EDIT: it is called "black smearing" not "screen ghosting".
 
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dreadlord said:
This has nothing to with the update. The screen issue you show happens on all OLED screens since the first OLED smartphone introduced by Samsung years ago. This is because pixels are completely turned off when black background is displayed, once you scroll pixels turn on but it takes a little time until it shows the pixel and in the mean time you see this purple color. If you increase the brightness the problem goes away, because the electrical currency is increased.
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This is correct. This happens with every OLED at low brightness.
 
dreadlord said:
This has nothing to with the update. The screen issue you show happens on all OLED screens since the first OLED smartphone introduced by Samsung years ago. This is because pixels are completely turned off when black background is displayed, once you scroll pixels turn on but it takes a little time until it shows the pixel and in the mean time you see this purple color. If you increase the brightness the problem goes away, because the electrical currency is increased.

You can find the same problem on iPhone X back in 2017 if you search "iPhone X screen ghosting" on YouTube.
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Not buying it, still happens on high brightness.
 
LFC2020 said:
No it doesn’t, I can reproduce the purple tint on high brightness.
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Please just search on YouTube for any smartphone with OLED screen. It is impossible to solve this problem but high brightness considerably reduces the effect you see. That's actually why some Android phones have a dark gray background instead of completely black when Dark mode is enabled. I know this problem because I had Samsung Galaxy S4 years ago, I was frustrated at the time as you are right now but you get use to it :D

EDIT: it is called "black smearing" if you'd like to get to know more.
 
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dreadlord said:
This has nothing to with the update. The screen issue you show happens on all OLED screens since the first OLED smartphone introduced by Samsung years ago. This is because pixels are completely turned off when black background is displayed, once you scroll pixels turn on but it takes a little time until it shows the pixel and in the mean time you see this purple color. If you increase the brightness the problem goes away, because the electrical currency is increased.

You can find the same problem on iPhone X back in 2017 if you search "iPhone X screen ghosting" on YouTube.

EDIT: it is called "black smearing" not "screen ghosting".
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My iPhone X has always done this since 2017. Interestingly, it’s less noticeable on my 12 mini with 14.5B5.
 
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As a side note, applefeedback:// already works in Safari Big Sur 11.2.3.
 
jakeuten said:
To be clear, you had the raised blacks issue before installing the iOS 14.5 betas? If that's the case I'm about to give a huge sigh of relief.
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Well, I am still having the raised black problem since beta 2. It just happens not that often but issue is still there for me.
 
they removed the contact photo from the messages thread on iPad. It was redundant since the contact photo was also in the thread list.
 
I guess the slight modem bump on the 12 Pro has helped Verizon with the same 46.0 carrier profile. On the previous beta, there was a bad dead spot in between Saums and Katy Freeway on Barker Cypress here in Houston. I had between one bar and three bars on LTE/5G and had zero data service. Voice worked fine. Now on this beta, no issue in the same exact place.
 
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No not on my iPhone 10 xsmax I see black normal ?
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It's hard to see on my phone too, you have to mess with the brightness and really look for the purple.. post#86 really shows it well and my phone barely does it compared to his phone, but it's there if you look for it closely..
 
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IPP 11 2020

Since the update: just updated a few minutes ago: I have had the missing text box and the big blank spot between the last message in a thread and the text box.
Texting from either my IPP11 or 12 ProMax, the sent texts show as New Unread texts on the other device. iMessage and SMS are affected.
 
General impression 12 ProMax

Overall feels smoother. Not seeing any small stutters.
Mail looks to be working so far. I say so far as betas 3/4 started out that way also.
Messages has same issues. Still.
No change to Widgets. They for the most part are static and frequently lag.
App Library Recently Added folder is the same as beta 4. Still wrong, but is the same. Big three in each folder are frequently not the 3 most used apps in that category.

Will do a bit of Camera testing tomorrow.
 
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For those who say purple tint is normal because of the pled panel. It’s not true. My panel never showed this sh*t before!
 
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