Did you checked with whites and all brightness levels?
You have to let the display some time enabled and not only some seconds.
Look for it about half a minute or so 🤭
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iPhone 15 Pro Max Screen uniformity and cast
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Did you checked with whites and all brightness levels?
You have to let the display some time enabled and not only some seconds.
Look for it about half a minute or so 🤭
No no TrueTone and No Night shift.
Everything disabled.
Check all brightness levels from 0-100%.
But you have to wait some seconds because the eyes have to get used to it.
And I can only see it in light mode. Dark mode is fine.
I can say it was the same with G9P G9Q and now G9N. I think it is the same with every panel. 🫣
Everything disabled.
Check all brightness levels from 0-100%.
But you have to wait some seconds because the eyes have to get used to it.
And I can only see it in light mode. Dark mode is fine.
I can say it was the same with G9P G9Q and now G9N. I think it is the same with every panel. 🫣
Yes it is only minor and you have to look for it. Sometimes it’s more and sometimes there is no difference. Really strange 🫣
Can you take an actual photo of the screen showing the issue? The one you posted is a screenshot taken by pressing iPhone buttons.
Anyway, I know what you mean. This is exactly one of the problems I'm seeing with these beside usual top half being reddish.
Thing is, it is really hard to rate panels when testing this as what shows in test patterns vs what shows in real life situations like just browsing titles on this forum. It is actually very good test with alternating white and blue titles bars.
With our G9N especially with TT and NS on, if you scroll so that top title bar is white, I could see that one being completely reddish and blue bar under it still with weird tint compared to blue bars below it. Also the whole left side you could see white title bars had reddish tint. Then in my G9P only about right half of the white bar on the top was reddish and right side just few titles down, not the whole right side. Also blue bar below top bar already had natural blue like the bars under it.
But thing is that despite all similar cases when I tested those two, still when I occasionally peek over the should when my other family member uses her phone, it usually looks uniform (WTF??). Then again with my G9P I notice issues here and there occasionally when I look for them. Again there's too many variables in this comparison. I'd like to trust my eyes for what I saw when I initially tested both when they were new. I mean I spent first night staring at them in different condition (by all night I mean I went to bed at 8-9 am or so). I spent totally many days testing them before choosing which one I take. After all tests my impression then was that G9N was worse but I really hesitated taking G9P for myself knowing all what I have learned about these.
That was hard one to choose between our two. I think G9N was a bit more uniform in certain ways in these, even it seemed to have a little bit worse uniformity issues with tests I put most value.
Soulmate here.
From my experience, very few people do that. Most just glance at the screen and say it is fine. Some people even refuse to do tests like this.
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How does that test actually work? Does it check the panel by itself or does it need user input to say how the screen looks like? I mean if it does without user input, I wonder how test works, it cannot see uniformity.
Thing is from my point of view that our eyes tends to adapt. For example NS on at later night, when you use it a while, grey looks grey even it is terrible orangish/pinkish, if you turn it on during daytime, you immediately notice how "weird" tint grey and white has. Then in my opinion the same apply to uniformity, eyes/brain tend to adjust again and at some point it may look like it is _almost_ fine. I usually see these uniformity issues badly when I first pick up my phone when coming home like after driving a car in a dark before this. It is nearly impossible to unsee those then but if use my phone for a few minutes they start to fade. But again when you just start to looking for issues using long time, you start to see them. It is hard to explain but people who really suffer from issues with almost every display probably knows what I try to explain here.
Curious as to if you have auto brightness on? I noticed my display looks way better, especially whites with autobrightness off.
Basically, all the diagnostics test the Apple store would do on your device, Apple is now letting you do on your own. As far as the display test, I believe it's only checking for dead pixels.
But how does it exactly test for dead pixels? The panel cannot see dead pixels by itself. I can only think that it displays some test patterns to client to input what they see.
I'm afraid this test has no value in case what this thread is about.
I think this is not about autobrightness but that when it is off, your screen stays at the level you chose which is likely higher. So brighter looks whiter is probably what is causing this.
I have not run the display pixel anomalies test yet, as I tried it to run it once but was connected to power via USB when trying to put the iPhone in diagnostic mode and according to Apple it has to be connected to at least 20W to boot into diagnostic mode. I don't agree with you that it has no value, this is great move by Apple for more technical people like some of us in this thread. it can't help with uniformity issues, but at least you can run it to find an even worse imperfection as in the case of a dead pixel. Also, there are other test to check your speakers, FaceID, etc are working as they should. This is a big move by Apple which has been historically closed off to allowing users do any kind of test on their own without having to go to the Apple store. I hope in the future they let you test your Airpods too as they are prone to deteriorate with time as far as Noise Cancellation performance and other issues like static and crackling.
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I mean when you browse thread titles on this forum, like this one https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/iphone.99/
Thread title list goes white - blue - white..... Scroll so that you have white at the top of the screen and start comparing. Obviously you should have iPhone display setting in light mode. Now view this list, especially with TT and NS on (also try NS 100% strength). You'll be surprised how well this simple test shows uniformity issues alone.
I meant that this test has no value in finding uniformity issues. If I had to guess, it probably has few solid color test patterns to check for dead pixels and such obvious defects and it needs user input to detect if there was issues seen. Anyway, probably most who are bothered by uniformity issues already know how to check the panels for it. And probably for those this test just shows that display is working "fine".
I agree, it is a good that they are opening these diagnostic tests to users. I guess it partly is related to that they are already allowing users to do certain repairs.
I just hope all these would be available worldwide. Too bad many many features are restricted to certain areas, not just self repairs and diagnostics. For example here in some EU countries many products haven't gotten any major features for a long time, good example is Apple Watch which input methods haven't improved at all, they are the same as were in Apple Watch 3 (I mean there are still no qwerty and scribble keyboard). The same goes for Siri, we still have to activate it with "Hey Siri", not plain "Siri" for us.
It's coming to the EU.I meant that this test has no value in finding uniformity issues. If I had to guess, it probably has few solid color test patterns to check for dead pixels and such obvious defects and it needs user input to detect if there was issues seen. Anyway, probably most who are bothered by uniformity issues already know how to check the panels for it. And probably for those this test just shows that display is working "fine".
I agree, it is a good that they are opening these diagnostic tests to users. I guess it partly is related to that they are already allowing users to do certain repairs.
I just hope all these would be available worldwide. Too bad many many features are restricted to certain areas, not just self repairs and diagnostics. For example here in some EU countries many products haven't gotten any major features for a long time, good example is Apple Watch which input methods haven't improved at all, they are the same as were in Apple Watch 3 (I mean there are still no qwerty and scribble keyboard). The same goes for Siri, we still have to activate it with "Hey Siri", not plain "Siri" for us.
Diagnostic maybe but I'm not holding my breath waiting for IOS features. For example how many years ago scribble and qwerty keyboard for AW was released?It's coming to the EU.
OK, sounds like what I expected. Very similar to what ThinkPad's build in diagnostic for display is. However nice feature if you can point the screen area where you see issues, so it probably helps if you send your phone for repair.
Good morning everyone
I read about Samsung G9N/G9P/G9Q screens
LG with GVC/GH, but mine is GVH, what does that mean?
LG or BOE? And it's best than GVC?
I changed the last iPhone 15 Pro because it was LG GVC, not bad but I want a Samsung screen
What a lottery these displays
In terms of colours, my new iPhone 15 Pro with GVH screen has greenish tint at low brightness but great uniformity
I read about Samsung G9N/G9P/G9Q screens
LG with GVC/GH, but mine is GVH, what does that mean?
LG or BOE? And it's best than GVC?
I changed the last iPhone 15 Pro because it was LG GVC, not bad but I want a Samsung screen
What a lottery these displays
In terms of colours, my new iPhone 15 Pro with GVH screen has greenish tint at low brightness but great uniformity
Yes but I hadn't read any GVH before me, all GVC or GH
In your opinion is it better than the other two or worse?
It seems less faded than my previous GVC but more greenigh and less bright
I would have preferred a Samsung
In your opinion is it better than the other two or worse?
It seems less faded than my previous GVC but more greenigh and less bright
I would have preferred a Samsung
If you want a Samsung return it and buy another. White Uniformity is better with LG but viewing angles, colors and dark grey uniformity are better with Samsung. This are my experience 😃