I know it was always there, but didn't thought that it's getting so much worse with dark mode enabled. Some people say they don't really notice smearing when scrolling. So I wanna ask you: Whats your experience with Dark mode and OLED smearing on iOS 13?
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iPhone Massive OLED Smearing with enabled Dark Mode
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(While only on iOS 12) If I am looking at something in a darkmode app, especially when the lights out, the OLED smearing is almost insufferable.
Yeah I see it but guess we’ll have to get used to it. Most prominent where black meets grey (the month separator under ‘workouts’ within the activity app is a good example)
I don't see it but then again I usually miss all of the fun little imperfections that others obsess over so.....
Maybe after a few beers I'll start seeing it then...
If my understanding of “smearing” is correct, iPad Pro with night mode on can also have serious smearing effect upon scrolling, especially when the webpage has large fonts. One example:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/lic...windows10?activetab=windows10-pivot:primaryr3
If not, then sorry.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/lic...windows10?activetab=windows10-pivot:primaryr3
If not, then sorry.
A useful demonstration. Best (or make that worst) observed in a dark room.
https://twitter.com/marcedwards/status/1053519077958803456?s=21
https://twitter.com/marcedwards/status/1053519077958803456?s=21
Tried that. A little bit, but I'm not sure that what I was seeing was not an optical illusion of the white box moving across the black screen. Regardless, I don't use my phone on low brightness and what I saw was no biggy to me. But I get that some find this irritating. I just don't find it noticeable or irritating.
Maybe my eyes can track better, or something. On my XS Max, that animated image looks perfectly fine.
Ok. Viewed in the dark I see what you’re referring to. I still would not consider this “serious smearing”. For me, that’s within an acceptable tolerance.
It's not your sight being good then (more like it's less sensitive), cause you can't see the pixels lagging behind when turning off/on due to the scrolling.
I stopped using the Apollo reddit app due to the insane OLED smear going on in there. It's insufferable to me, that's why I was hoping for a darkish-grey dark mode similar to macOS instead (or at least the choice to pick between black and grey for dark mode).