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

Ah okay I have a Pro Max model. Maybe someone have to test with 16 Pro Max G9N Display :)

Mine is also perfectly uniform but the banding is a little bit frustrating. Won’t play the panel lottery again and get a LG screen or a worse screen with color shift :/

You can see the screenshot from DXO Display? You see the banding line there in the middle?

Also if I zoom in and out of the test picture (5% grey) the banding moves from top to bottom. 😂
 
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ExploRichie said:
Can someone check the gray uniformity with this 5% grey picture?
With about 30-40% brightness I can see banding on my 16 Pro Max with G9N Display.
Can someone confirm this too?

My uniformity is good and I have no green shift but the banding with dark grey screens seems weird.

Please look to my attachments.

BTW this is not my phone it’s uploaded by a user from Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhone16Pro/comments/1fnkpme/iphone_16_pro_max_weird_display_issue

The banding disappears under 30% or over 50% brightness. It’s really weird.
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Mine has this too. Very hard to see; I only ever notice it when I’m looking at my phone in a totally dark room.

Other than that it’s a pretty good display, so I’m not bothering with trying to get it replaced. OLED displays have been terrible with uniformity in my experience; it’s been a matter of finding one I deem “good enough” because finding a perfect one seems impossible.
 
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ReliableSource said:
Mine has this too. Very hard to see; I only ever notice it when I’m looking at my phone in a totally dark room.

Other than that it’s a pretty good display, so I’m not bothering with trying to get it replaced. OLED displays have been terrible with uniformity in my experience; it’s been a matter of finding one I deem “good enough” because finding a perfect one seems impossible.
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Which display do you have?
Samsung G9P/G9N or LG GVC/GVH?

Seems to be only with the Pro Max an issue :/
 
ExploRichie said:
Which display do you have?
Samsung G9P/G9N or LG GVC/GVH?

Seems to be only with the Pro Max an issue :/
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No clue; I don’t think that sort of thing is really indicative of anything bc the sample sizes are too small. If you can link me a shortcut or something that’ll let me pull up the info easily I’ll check for you though.
 
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ReliableSource said:
No clue; I don’t think that sort of thing is really indicative of anything bc the sample sizes are too small. If you can link me a shortcut or something that’ll let me pull up the info easily I’ll check for you though.
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I will quote from someone from Reddit:

„For those wondering how to check your display manufacturer... You can run sysdiagnose on your phone (press volume up,
volume down, and lock button) all together for around a second. You will feel the phone vibrate. Wait a couple of minutes and then go to Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Analytics and Improvements -> Analytics Data. You will then scroll down and look for a file titled: sysdiagnose_XXXXXXXX You will click on that file and then click the arrow in the upper right hand corner and scroll down and click "Save to Files" Once it is saved you will go into your files and click the file to unpack it. Within the folder that is unpacked you will click on the folder "ioreg" and then click the file "IODeviceTree". You will then use the magnifying search glass in the bottom right hand corner to search "raw-panel". It will then give you a serial number. I have an LG display which has the beginning letters of GVC.“

G9N and G9P is Samsung
GHC & GVC is LG
 
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ExploRichie said:
I will quote from someone from Reddit:

„For those wondering how to check your display manufacturer... You can run sysdiagnose on your phone (press volume up,
volume down, and lock button) all together for around a second. You will feel the phone vibrate. Wait a couple of minutes and then go to Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Analytics and Improvements -> Analytics Data. You will then scroll down and look for a file titled: sysdiagnose_XXXXXXXX You will click on that file and then click the arrow in the upper right hand corner and scroll down and click "Save to Files" Once it is saved you will go into your files and click the file to unpack it. Within the folder that is unpacked you will click on the folder "ioreg" and then click the file "IODeviceTree". You will then use the magnifying search glass in the bottom right hand corner to search "raw-panel". It will then give you a serial number. I have an LG display which has the beginning letters of GVC.“

G9N and G9P is Samsung
GHC & GVC is LG
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Seems like mine’s an LG then
 

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manager77 said:
ll have this too but l guess is somthing wrong with test picture. My wife has a G9N panel a the same is happening…
GH3 panel is less bright with lower contrast than G9N and this makes me sad. I will sell this phone just because l feel l was fooled by Apple and l will try S25 ultra next month…
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No the testpicture is 5% OLED grey. There is nothing wrong.

I think all the 16 Pro Max panels have the banding on dark gray conditions.

Maybe it is a software bug :/

Btw which panel do you have?
 
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My natural 16PM 256GB had a little tinny scratch on the side of the power button out of the box but it’s only cosmetic. I will keep my phone because playing screen lottery again and getting a LG screen is not the best way I think. There are so many LG screens out there …

Are there other users with the same banding on the 16 Pro Max?

I think it has to do with the new M14 OLED panel. If you look at this S24 Ultra DXO Display test you can see it too. And this Samsung phones uses also the M14 OLED Panel.

But the Pixel 9 Pro XL has it not so this is weird again 👀
 

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ExploRichie said:
My natural 16PM 256GB had a little tinny scratch on the side of the power button out of the box but it’s only cosmetic. I will keep my phone because playing screen lottery again and getting a LG screen is not the best way I think. There are so many LG screens out there …
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is not right from such a company like Apple to do this! l paid a price for a product that might be the same like my wife’s phone ad ex wich has G9N samsung panel. Like l said it before her panel is more vibrant , lighter and my phone seems older. My panel is yeallowish also but my wife’s much much more clean withe with nicer blue tint
 
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Pudlo said:
it is visible at the bottom of the screen after tilting your device, depends on your luck, the green tint is low or really strong and easily visible just at even a slight tilt
when you look directly at the screen it looks ok, but if you compare to a Samsung screen it is 10-20% darker at max brightness and overall much warmer (checked two different green tinted screens with phones on a store display with no tint) and there was no way to get to the same brightness level. And actually the lack of max brightness is much bigger problem but it is really hard to notice bc you need a SAmsung device to compare and that is crazy hard to get (you can go to an Apple Store but still at my store only 1 out of 7 phones had a nice screen)

overall in a direct comparison the gap between a green tinted screen and a screen with no green tint is crazy huge, like two different devices...but if you look jsut at the green tinted without comparison it looks just ok (don't want to name brands bc not sure if only LG has green tint)
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I still don't get why people use their devices tilted.
 
Yes like I said. LG have the best uniformity but crappy viewing angles with green tint.
Samsung has much better viewing angles but it is difficult to find a uniformity you can live with.
 
@ExploRichie I can see a very slight greenish tint only when tilting from the top - however I never tilt it like that in normal use; I'm not sure if it's caused by the screen itself or by the glass protector though. On the other side I was bugged by the uniformity issues from Samsung displays in normal use.
 
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Yes but that’s too much for me in my case. I hate this color shift. Event the mildest tilting is enough for this color shift and this drives me nuts if you scrolling through pages and the top is green and the bottom white for example.
 
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ExploRichie said:
Yes but that’s too much for me in my case. I hate this color shift. Event the mildest tilting is enough for this color shift and this drives me nuts if you scrolling through pages and the top is green and the bottom white for example.
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Oh, for me that greenish hue is sliding itself from top to bottom depending on the tilting angle.
 
Yes I know what you mean. And LG screens are prone to to that even at the slightest tilting. With Samsung you have to tilt the device for about 20-40 degree to see it.
 
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Then I must have gotten lucky that I only notice a slight shift when tilting from the top. I like having both TT and NS enabled during the evenings on low brightness, and any uniformity issue would be a show stopper for me.
 
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