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iPhone 16 Pro Max Screen brightness on 16 Pro/Max [MERGED]

Yesterday, I went to an Apple Store and tried again to get a 16 Pro Max hoping I finally got a good display with the lottery. And of course, unbox the first one, blue shift, they exchange for a second one with a different color, massive blue shift too. Is it no longer even possible with the lottery to get a good one?

I have two days left on my return window to decide if I keep my perfect display 16 Pro or exchange for a 16 Pro Max so I guess they are making the decision easy.
 
Hi everyone, I need your opinion on the display of my iPhone 16 Pro, please. Personally, I feel that the display is a little yellow compared to my iPhone 13 Pro and the demo iPhone 16 Pro units in the Apple Store. The top part of the screen seems to be slightly yellower than the bottom. However, the screen seems to exhibit little to no shift when titled off-axis. I have attached some photos of my phone’s screen.

Should I try to exchange this phone for another unit? I am just worried that I might get a worse one!

Thank you for your opinions.

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ceroxylon said:
Hi everyone, I need your opinion on the display of my iPhone 16 Pro, please. Personally, I feel that the display is a little yellow compared to my iPhone 13 Pro and the demo iPhone 16 Pro units in the Apple Store. The top part of the screen seems to be slightly yellower than the bottom. However, the screen seems to exhibit little to no shift when titled off-axis. I have attached some photos of my phone’s screen.

Should I try to exchange this phone for another unit? I am just worried that I might get a worse one!

Thank you for your opinions.

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Keep it!
 
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ceroxylon said:
Hi everyone, I need your opinion on the display of my iPhone 16 Pro, please. Personally, I feel that the display is a little yellow compared to my iPhone 13 Pro and the demo iPhone 16 Pro units in the Apple Store. The top part of the screen seems to be slightly yellower than the bottom. However, the screen seems to exhibit little to no shift when titled off-axis. I have attached some photos of my phone’s screen.

Should I try to exchange this phone for another unit? I am just worried that I might get a worse one!

Thank you for your opinions.

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Given the lottery and the crap screens, this one looks great! It’s a keeper.
 
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Both are 16pro, with Samsung screen on the left and LG on the right. I had to return the right one immediately, looking forward to seeing how nauseous I get.
 
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Yeah, right has green tinting. Do you know the serial numbers for both (or at least the one you are owning)? Just out of curiosity...

Edit: Interesting, that you can see light shining from the speaker grill on the LG. No idea if it's always connected with that.
 
BorisDG said:
Yeah, right has green tinting. Do you know the serial numbers for both (or at least the one you are owning)? Just out of curiosity...

Edit: Interesting, that you can see light shining from the speaker grill on the LG. No idea if it's always connected with that.
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Yes, I checked both. Samsung is G9N, LG is GVC.
 
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I had to return my phone, turns out there were two micro-scratches out of the box that I thought were just marks on the screen protector. I had the receipt from the installation at the Apple store when I got phone + protector installed at same time, they agreed to replace the phone since it is within return window. Micro scratches circled in red. Amazing how some employees are really cool, and others just don't care / aren't helpful. New phone is mint under bright lights at Apple store.

New phone has a Samsung G9N panel, surprisingly near perfect and no issues with TT and NS. Can't make this stuff up. This has been a really bad year (for me) QC-wise with the 16PM.

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Cả hai đều là 16pro, với màn hình Samsung ở bên trái và LG ở bên phải. Tôi phải trả lại cái đúng ngay lập tức, đoán xem tôi buồn nôn như thế nào.
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All Samsungs that I’ve owned in the past had a blue green hue when tilted at that far of an angle.in any case in prefer the warmer panel as I don’t like pink tint which are normally present on cooler panels from my experience.
 

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Kylo83 said:
auto brightness makes its worse always darker, I like max brightness all the time so I turn it off
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No it does not make it darker all the time, not always. In fact, in direct sunlight you are limiting the potential of what the phone will do to increase light output.

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Doh... my 15PM had it off. (I always have it off on all phones.) Gotta love that Apple turns it back on even when transferring settings from my old phone.

in my defense, I was on the runway taking off for a flight when I posted that. Got my 16PM late last night and not had much time with it before this trip.

So far no sharp edges, no screen issues and no input lag/miss-reads that people are reporting.

After I broke the Apple internet last year with my photos of the horrendous Image Retention getting millions of views that were not burn-in and were 98% fixed with a software fix, it's nice to be normal again.
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In my experience for years, the display will not go to max brightness without auto-brightness enabled. Your disabling Auto brightness is actually reducing the phone's changes of hitting max brightness when outdoors.

The following test has worked on my Xs Max, 13 Pro, and 16 Pro today (and for years now before) in iOS 18.

All photos taken with an old Powershot Pro1 CMOS sensor camera from 2004.
Absolutely zero computational photography or adaptation. All shots taken in Manual mode (RAW) and converted to "large" jpeg via Mac Finder quick action.
ISO 160
2.4f
1/160 shutter speed
Zoom at 28mm

Exact same 16 pro in all photos.


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Auto brightness ON, light sensor bombarded with same flashlight. Screen is notably brighter.

For whatever reason, Apple only allows the actual brightness to go past max, when it can control the OLED output internally. Perhaps for battery / thermal reasons, but this has been the case for many years now that if you want max brightness in outdoor situations, leave Auto brightness on.
 
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BorisDG said:
Yeah, right has green tinting. Do you know the serial numbers for both (or at least the one you are owning)? Just out of curiosity...

Edit: Interesting, that you can see light shining from the speaker grill on the LG. No idea if it's always connected with that.
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Where do you see green?

Uniformity looks almost a little sus but straight on looks kinda good no? the numeric keypad looks less yellow and poppier

as always though hard to tell in pics

The left looks a little funky to me but maybe they both are / its the pic
 
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ceroxylon said:
Hi everyone, I need your opinion on the display of my iPhone 16 Pro, please. Personally, I feel that the display is a little yellow compared to my iPhone 13 Pro and the demo iPhone 16 Pro units in the Apple Store. The top part of the screen seems to be slightly yellower than the bottom. However, the screen seems to exhibit little to no shift when titled off-axis. I have attached some photos of my phone’s screen.

Should I try to exchange this phone for another unit? I am just worried that I might get a worse one!

Thank you for your opinions.

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curious if LG or Samsung for science. Assuming Samsung from off axis. Off axis looks good, but straight on looks pretty good overall - is it at all two toned from top to bottom? Bottom looks a bit more red to my eyes. THat's the kinda thing that would just be enough to annoy me but again, hard to tell with pic.

looks pretty good in general, especially if camera is just exaggerating some nitpicks
 
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My return period for the 16 Pro ends tomorrow, so trying one last time to score a 16 Pro Max with a good display on this lottery. Doing my store pick up shortly. This would be my fifth attempt as I have gotten 4 blue shift subpar displays. Send good vibes lol
 
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Hell yea got a good display on the new 16 PM. interestingly enough, every time I’ve gotten a good display it’s been a white titanium. Not sure there’s a correlation but worth pointing out that it’s the only color that I’ve had good luck with on the Pros in terms of displays and so did my friend as well.

Oh also it came preinstalled with iOS 18.1 which means it’s fresh off the oven.
 
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thatJohann said:
Hell yea got a good display on the new 16 PM. interestingly enough, every time I’ve gotten a good display it’s been a white titanium. Not sure there’s a correlation but worth pointing out that it’s the only color that I’ve had good luck with on the Pros in terms of displays and so did my friend as well.
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Congrats! LG panel, right? :)
 
thatJohann said:
Hell yea got a good display on the new 16 PM. interestingly enough, every time I’ve gotten a good display it’s been a white titanium. Not sure there’s a correlation but worth pointing out that it’s the only color that I’ve had good luck with on the Pros in terms of displays and so did my friend as well.
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angle photos and videos please, will be easier to compare after my arrives 😍
 
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