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iPad mini iPad Mini 6 jelly scrolling

Sadly i can not enjoy my device like this. I always use the Mini in Portrait, so this is constantly annoying.
I tried to ignore it but sadly i can't. Which is why i initiated the return now.

Guess i'll have to live with the Mini 4 a few more years. That one has the same thing in landscape (but much weaker), but is never visible to me, because i never use it in landscape, except for videos.

Very sad, because otherwise this device is amazing and exactly what i wanted. :(

Will buy again, if apple manages to find a fix. But i doubt it.
 
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just ran through all the tests on my new iPad 9th generation, and it is not experiencing any jelly scrolling issues.
 
So glad I sent out emails to 9to5Mac about this. They’ve covered the the problem today, so hopefully Macrumors will follow (I emailed them too) 👍🏼

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iPad mini 6 exhibits 'jelly scrolling' display refresh issue - 9to5Mac

The iPad mini 6 launched this week to much fanfare, thanks to its radically modern redesign and latest-generation A15 processor....
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BKGolden said:
I had to go looking for the jelly problem after reading about it here. My iPad Mini 6 has it as well. Do I care? Not really as I'm not in the habit of quickly flicking the screen up and down in normal, every day use. The screen is very nice otherwise.
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This kind of has shades of the iPad 12.9 blooming affect. Though in this case, Idid try extreme stuff and still can't reproduce it.
 
BKGolden said:
I had to go looking for the jelly problem after reading about it here. My iPad Mini 6 has it as well. Do I care? Not really as I'm not in the habit of quickly flicking the screen up and down in normal, every day use. The screen is very nice otherwise.
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How are you moving around on the forums then? When looking at threads to read I scroll fast through it all, or when reading posts.
 
Macintosh101 said:
Someone on twitter noticed the following: The iPad mini’s jelly scrolling issue is most noticeable when scrolling through your albums in the music app. It’s insanely pronounced there. You don’t see it much with text. But with large images that have a border it’s wild.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1442067049627459584
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And he’s right, just opened up my music up now and scrolled in portrait- its insane!
 
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Rafterman said:
This kind of has shades of the iPad 12.9 blooming affect. Though in this case, Idid try extreme stuff and still can't reproduce it.
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can you post a video scrolling up & down in slomo? Because I thought mine didn’t have it and then it turned out having it. It seems every device has it
 
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ofarlig said:
How are you moving around on the forums then? When looking at threads to read I scroll fast through it all, or when reading posts.
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I usually just scroll in one direction, not quickly moving my finger up down (like the video on previous page) to see the jelly effect. I do see some effect when scrolling in one direction, but it's not that noticeable to me. By the way someone mentioned the album view in Music app and the jelly effect there is horrendous.
 
I originally posted here that I wasn't getting the effect on my Mini 6. I was looking for the wrong thing. Now I see it.

It's easiest to see when scrolling a file or website that is mostly just lines of text. When scrolling down, lines of text are slightly slanted upward. When scrolling down, lines are slightly slanted downward.

If you turn the device around so that the buttons are on the bottom, the slanting direction reverses: when scrolling down, lines are slightly slanted downward not upward.

To me, this is absolutely not a problem. The slanting is minor, and in any case I'm not going to be reading text while scrolling because of the lack of Pro Motion.

I also tried scrolling in Apple Music through the album covers in my library, and through collections of images in the Photos app, and did not have any annoying distortion in either case.

I am NOT saying that other people are wrong when they say it's a big problem. I believe them. When you pay so much money for a premium device, it should be PERFECT.

But for me, it's not enough of a problem to warrant a return. I just don't see it unless I'm trying to look for it, and I don't see it in my normal use of the device.

One question is: why do some people not experience this problem? Because some iPad Mini units don't have the problem or because some people aren't as sensitive to it?

Many reviewers posted glowing reviews of the Mini 6 last week, and none of the dozen or so I read (or watched on Youtube) mentioned this issue; if literally every Mini 6 unit has the jelly scrolling issue to the same degree, at least a few of the reviewers should have spotted it. Well, Dieter Bohn did on Twitter, but why didn't others?
 
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I finally opened my mini 6 and I don’t see it either. I compared with my Mini 5 and it looks about the same.
 
Might have to return this, when I’m using it normally my eyes catch the right side going being further up and follows that side up instead of being fixed at a point and reading.

The entire thing page is leaning when scrolling.
 
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BKGolden said:
I usually just scroll in one direction, not quickly moving my finger up down (like the video on previous page) to see the jelly effect. I do see some effect when scrolling in one direction, but it's not that noticeable to me. By the way someone mentioned the album view in Music app and the jelly effect there is horrendous.
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Yes, horrendous is the word.
 
This is likely the deciding factor for me returning my Mini 6. I also didn’t realize that that only the new iPad 9 has a Smart Cover, which I prefer. Even the Air 4 has only a folio.
 
AllergyDoc said:
This is likely the deciding factor for me returning my Mini 6. I also didn’t realize that that only the new iPad 9 has a Smart Cover, which I prefer. Even the Air 4 has only a folio.
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IPads with a camera bump always get a folio and no smart cover.
 
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It seems all screens (on any device) exhibits this problem to some the degree since it refreshes from top to bottom. My iPad 6th generation does this as well in landscape mode, but since I almost exclusively only use landscape for video content it's not nearly as noticeable as when scrolling through content on the iPad mini.
 
Rafterman said:
This kind of has shades of the iPad 12.9 blooming affect. Though in this case, Idid try extreme stuff and still can't reproduce it.
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With the blooming I only see it in certain apps. I use Twitter in all black mode and I don’t notice it. But when I’m reading a book in the Kindle app in dark mode it’s very pronounced.
 
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