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Still Deciding on TrueTone

ghsNick said:
ProMotion is noticeable so I won't call that a gimmick...I actually love it.
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Promotion is so noticeable that it is night and day. My iPhone renders a solid 60fps and now it looks like it is stuttering when I use it.

As for the true tone. I always hated that my devices looked "blue" in all conditions. Especially the old nexus 4. Now the colors look natural even under the office lights.
 
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If you leave it on, and don’t constantly go back and forth, you’ll get used to it. Kinda like night shift. If I turn it on manually I’ll notice the deep yellowish tint immediately, but if I let it turn on automatically I end up not even thinking about it being on.
 
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I've turned OFF the TrueTone on my iPad Pro (white bezel). Used it for a few days and just didn't like the warmer screen. I usually like to look at brighter screen.
 
I've come to the conclusion that true tone does nothing, at least for me. All it does it make the display extremely yellow, WAY more so than the ambient light temperature. I've had the iPad Pro now for over a month and True Tone has always been identical to just turning on night mode. If you are in direct sunlight it cools off a bit, but always looks inaccurate. I just don't use it, not a big deal.
 
Aluminum213 said:
Been using it since the 9.7 Pro, no way I’ll turn off
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Same. I have never turned it off. But I have gone in before here and there and toggled it on and off in the settings to see what the screen would look like in the current situation--turning it off always seems to give the screen a much cooler blue shade and to my eyes it looks horrible. So TrueTone is not something I ever really notice is on, but I would never turn it off.

For me, it's a lot like ProMotion. My eyes get used to it, and then I go over to use my iPhone 7 Plus and color temperature and 30 fps screen refresh stick out like a sore thumb.
 
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With TrueTone on, white on screen is always closer to the white bezel color than with TrueTone off. I'd actually like an option to make TrueTone more aggressive so it more closely matches the bezel.
 
Turned it on during setup, left it on.

It is certainly different to other displays, but that doesn't mean its wrong.

Most computer/electronic device displays are overly blue/higher colour temperature and don't match reality. It makes them "pop" more.

Truetone should make things look more accurate.


As far as health goes, there is some research that indicates that exposure to bluer / higher temperature light keeps you awake. So with truetone, you will potentially maybe sleep better, particularly if you spend a lot of time looking at the display later in the evening than if it was regular colour temperature (compared to other traditional displays) without "night shift" mode turned on.
 
throAU said:
Turned it on during setup, left it on.

As far as health goes, there is some research that indicates that exposure to bluer / higher temperature light keeps you awake. So with truetone, you will potentially maybe sleep better, particularly if you spend a lot of time looking at the display later in the evening than if it was regular colour temperature (compared to other traditional displays) without "night shift" mode turned on.
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Not only that, but some research also suggests that over-exposure to blue light can lead to long-term eye damage. These are the main reasons I keep Truetone on. It most probably doesn't actually make much difference in this respect, but I figure that anything that slightly reduces the amount of blue light emitted can't be a bad thing (unless you're doing colour-critical work).
 
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Asp09 said:
Not only that, but some research also suggests that over-exposure to blue light can lead to long-term eye damage. These are the main reasons I keep Truetone on. It most probably doesn't actually make much difference in this respect, but I figure that anything that slightly reduces the amount of blue light emitted can't be a bad thing (unless you're doing colour-critical work).
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If you're doing colour critical work, true tone should be more accurate as it matches your ambient light. In theory.
 
It's hard for me to go back to my 12.9 first gen and iPad mini after experience true tone. I absolutely love it.
 
I really like TrueTone. To me personally, the normal screen is way too blueish and TrueTone helps a lot with that.
 
True Tone is a nice feature as each user has the ability to enable or disable it. If you prefer a cooler screen, a warmer screen, no problem iOS has got you covered.
 
I think people confuse true tone and nightshift. The purpose of true tone is to make the colors on the screen more reaiistic; the purpose of nightshift is to avoid blue tones to interfere with sleep (based on shaky science). Those are separate. If you compare the true tone iPad display with a piece of paper, it matches very well under varying lightening conditions. It seems people here only ever look at computer screen and never actual paper.
 
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ahostmadsen said:
If you compare the true tone iPad display with a piece of paper, it matches very well under varying lightening conditions. It seems people here only ever look at computer screen and never actual paper.
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I do use paper. Paper doesn't emit light, a display does. I've come to expect the bluish tint from a display, yellow seems unnatural.

Yes, you can argue that the sun is yellow, but when was the last time you tried reading words on the sun's surface?

eInk, conversely, makes sense on a yellowish screen because the display doesn't actually emit light.
 
ahostmadsen said:
I think people confuse true tone and nightshift. The purpose of true tone is to make the colors on the screen more reaiistic; the purpose of nightshift is to avoid blue tones to interfere with sleep (based on shaky science). Those are separate. If you compare the true tone iPad display with a piece of paper, it matches very well under varying lightening conditions. It seems people here only ever look at computer screen and never actual paper.
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they are seperate but the complaints people have regarding both are due to the same reason. they've used blue displays all their life.

2 different reasons for the same complaint.
 
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throAU said:
they are seperate but the complaints people have regarding both are due to the same reason. they've used blue displays all their life.

2 different reasons for the same complaint.
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Yes, and for the same reason, I have both turned off. I don't like the yellow display that is produced in both cases :)
 
I turned on True-Tone on my 9.7 Pro as soon as I saw it and got used to it. The screen looks too blue when I disable it. I even have also a timer for Night Shift at night so that's even more... Yellow. But I like it. My bezels are black, by the way.
 
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ghsNick said:
Is TrueTone better for your eyes (health wise)? If so, that's the only way I'd use it because I actually prefer it off.

I understand I'm used to the bluish screens all our devices have, but I do enable Night Time mode at night and like it...there's just something I don't love about TrueTone.

It just doesn't seem like the screen pops as much. I just got my first iPad Pro and I've been trying to get used to it all day.

Let me know if I'm crazy or if anyone else feels this way too.
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Much easier on the eyes IMO. Leave it on in the dark for a while and then disable it. How do your eyes respond?
 
mavis said:
White bezel, which means True Tone is awesome. On-screen whites now match the bezel’s white.
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Interesting way of looking at it. But I see having Tru-Tone being advantage depending on the lighting versus not having it all.
 
MrGimper said:
Off, white bezel.

However, off only because I wear glasses with blue-light-reducing lenses
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Sorry, but what does one have to do with the other? Night Shift is meant to help with blue light (at night, as the name implies) whereas TrueTone simply adjusts the white balance of the screen to match the color temperature of the ambient light. If TrueTone makes your screen seem more 'yellow' than you're used to, that's only because the ambient light is warm (incandescent, I'm guessing).
 
mavis said:
Sorry, but what does one have to do with the other? Night Shift is meant to help with blue light (at night, as the name implies) whereas TrueTone simply adjusts the white balance of the screen to match the color temperature of the ambient light. If TrueTone makes your screen seem more 'yellow' than you're used to, that's only because the ambient light is warm (incandescent, I'm guessing).
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Is this a serious question?
 
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