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iPhone 8/Plus iPhone 8 plus - screen brightness uniformity
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Best to check on a regular macrumors forum page. Not on a thread but a page with all the threads. The lines help break up your eyes from adjusting to the gradients.
I’m not trying to say yours actually have it, just letting you know how to keep your eyes from potentially playing tricks on you.
I exchanged my iPhone 8 today because of uneven brightness with dinginess around the bottom quarter of screen. The replacement is perfect. The new screen is brighter overall with no uneveness in color. Of course no one at the Apple Store could see the problem but I had no trouble with the exchange. Good luck to everyone doing a return or replacement.
Did they give you any hassle about the exchange. I am looking to exchange mine as well, did a few reboots on my 8 Plus and a white line showed down at the bottom of the screen (black screen before apple logo shows) so I was looking to get a exchange done on it. I dont have anything to take a picture of it with and I know how they are about reproducing issues before moving to the next step.
No real hassle to speak of. Two technicians couldn't see what I was talking about of course and it is difficult to see any unevenness under those bright lights in the Apple stores. The technician ran a diagnostic test on it so we could compare the problem under different colors and of course you can't see unevenness looking at dark colors. The test result was normal at which point the technician gave up and said I could exchange it since I was in the 2 week period. He was very nice overall and I sat there knowing I had the trump card I could use at any time, but it didn't get to that. The only down side was that the store was very busy and I was there quite awhile. Just remember that you can return that phone for any reason in the first 2 weeks after purchase and either exchange it or just return and buy another.
OK cool thanks, this is my first preorder purchase of any Apple products so this is all new to me. I usually wait a couple of months before purchasing but my 6 plus decided it had enough and bit the dust.
Oh great, another model with the same issue. I was having the same screen uniformity problem with 6, 6s and now 7.
My iPhone 7 has identical uniformity problem, the only difference is that the screen on my phone is darker/cooler on the top left.
I was really hopping that iPhone 8 won't have the same problem.
I've tried 3 phones and all 3 have an uneven backlight. Thankfully one of them wasn't as bad, and was as close to perfect as i'll get i think.
Funny enough, I have the same problem, but turning off the true tone display makes the issue less apparent.
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What do you mean?
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That is exactly my issue with the 8+, and yes, I also feel like I’m losing my mind over this. I really don’t know what to do about it, because if I exchange it, there’s a probability that the new phone is going to have the same issue, and it could be worse.
This problem occurs on pretty much every iphone and ipad iteration released to date. All you can do is keep exchanging until you get one with uniform display. Acceptable tollerances for screens must be quite loose.
I guess you’re right. As soon as I noticed it, after unboxing the phone, it was pretty hard to ‘not see it’. I already scheduled an appointment at the nearest Apple Store, I hope they can help me with this.
I would exchange it while you still can, and check it in the store (maybe see if they will let you walk outside the store away from their bright lighting - I checked mine when I picked it up originally because I have had funky screens in the past and it looked OK in the store).
I wound up returning mine and going back to the SE because I found the Plus to be more unwieldy than I thought it would be, plus the fact I didn't realize how much I used my phone one handed... until I couldn't. Oh well, it wasn't meant to be I suppose.
Just make sure you set up an appointment to exchange it because when I walked in the store to return mine they put me in the "line" and I had to wait about 30 min just to speak to someone to start the return process. Kind of silly on their part but I guess they want to make it as difficult as possible to give something back to them...
Got my new one, both have slightly different tints, both have unevenly tinted screens, You can definetly tell the difference in the grey menu bars.
The new one has darker blacks but they are being crushed when I bring up a brightness test pattern. If I bring up a photo with black in it you can tell a difference in the photos.
Pic is with max brightness true tone off
That’s the first one that has less black crush, and overall I think it’s more uniform but the colours arn’t as vivid and a little more dull. I’m not sure what one is more accurate.
Honestly, I was looking at the display models in the Apple store and every single on had evenness issues, some worse than others, but they all had noticeable issues. If you’re ocd about this like us in this thread, you will just have to live with it I think.
I should add that I went through many MacBooks with the same uneven displays. I never did get a good one, but after a few weeks of stopping obsessing over it I stopped noticing and it didn’t even pop into my mind until this phone issue.
I feel like this will be the same thing, bug me for a while and I’ll eventually forget about it.
I feel like this will be the same thing, bug me for a while and I’ll eventually forget about it.
Got my new one, both have slightly different tints, both have unevenly tinted screens, You can definetly tell the difference in the grey menu bars.
The new one has darker blacks but they are being crushed when I bring up a brightness test pattern. If I bring up a photo with black in it you can tell a difference in the photos.
Pic is with max brightness true tone off
Which one is the new one? I hope it’s the left one because the right one looks horrible, like the bottom right half of the screen is much darker, unless that’s just how the photo turned out.
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Crazy. Surely their screen tolerances are higher than this. This is the 4th generation of these sized LCD panels that Apple has been using and they are still having uniformity issues? What gives? I doubt it is an LCD thing as all of my iPhones prior to the 6 series all had perfect screens. Even my SE that I am typing on now has no uniformity issues. Strange.
I had no issues with my 6 Plus I had for 3 years, either.
The right one is the new one. Left is a carrier phone and right is bought from Apple Store. I’m sending it back to the store and my carrier is currently shipping me another. I’ll choose between the left and the new one from the carrier. I’m not going to try a 4th phone.
Every single iPhone I've own since 4S has had uniformity issues. Besides, the ones prior to the 6 series had terrible interlacing lines on the screen.
My current 6S has one of the best screens I've ever seen and still not absolutely perfect by no means.
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I'm on my 4th replacement, and every single one had this issue to some degree. I'll be keeping this one, darker area is not that prominent as it was on previous units, and i'm also tired of going back to Apple store and getting more replacements, especially since it's near impossible to get a perfect one. I had a same issue with 6 and 6s, and it looks like that we're gonna have another screen lottery with 8. Premium products should be more premium then this.
I have found the best way to show uneven tint is to take a picture of an all black screen in a dark room. It megnifies the issue so you can really see where the screen is uneven.
Here are my last 3 phones. This is what I am seeing in real world settings, obviously more faintly on a white screen. Phone 1 and 3 haave a red tint on the left side. Note phone 3 I put the protective film back on cause I was sending back. Phone 2 was the worst in all regards with a different tint in all 4 corners. It also had sort of dark lines along he edge on a white screen as well and had bad backlight bleed at the bottom that shows up.
Here is my wife’s SE. it’s much better than all of the 8+ imo. I would take that screen all day.
Here is my MacBook Pro Retina. It drove me crazy and went through a bunch of exchanges but after a while i stopped focusing on the issue I did not notice it anymore. I am hoping this is the same case with the phone. I can’t keep making exchanges for the 1 in a million shot I get a good one. I’m am going to stick with the phone in the first picture
Here are my last 3 phones. This is what I am seeing in real world settings, obviously more faintly on a white screen. Phone 1 and 3 haave a red tint on the left side. Note phone 3 I put the protective film back on cause I was sending back. Phone 2 was the worst in all regards with a different tint in all 4 corners. It also had sort of dark lines along he edge on a white screen as well and had bad backlight bleed at the bottom that shows up.
Here is my wife’s SE. it’s much better than all of the 8+ imo. I would take that screen all day.
Here is my MacBook Pro Retina. It drove me crazy and went through a bunch of exchanges but after a while i stopped focusing on the issue I did not notice it anymore. I am hoping this is the same case with the phone. I can’t keep making exchanges for the 1 in a million shot I get a good one. I’m am going to stick with the phone in the first picture