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iPhone 14 Pro Max True Tone Slow to Respond - 14 Pro Max

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Alfieg

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Hi all. I'm curious to know if other 14 Pro Max users are experiencing this. Hopefully it's a bug and not a hardware issue.

Coming out of standby / AOD, my 14 Pro Max takes about 10 seconds to respond to ambient light to change the white point. For example, if I am in a cold / blue light area, the phone wakes up with a yellow white point and takes 10 seconds or more for True Tone to cool to an appropriate white point.

On my 13 Pro, this happened so quickly I never noticed it. Unfortunately on the 14 it means I am greeted with a yellow display every time I unlock the phone and it does not look good. With True Tone off, the white point matches my 13 Pro with True Tone off, so it's definitely True Tone that's the problem and not the display itself.

I'm seeing similar behaviour with brightness. Perhaps it is a bug in relation to AOD or the additional light sensor this year.

Anyone else seeing this?
 
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I’ve noticed this on my 14 Pro too. And it’s not a gradual change in color tone, it’ll be “cool” when I first unlock the phone and then after a few seconds it instantly switches to a much warmer True Tone color.
 
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I noticed the same thing on mines and I had disabled AOD since day 1.
 
Came here for this very thing. I've seen the same exact behavior on my 14 Pro Max. I'm assuming it's a software issue. Anyone know if this has been resolved in 16.1?
 
I've had this issue since day one on my iPhone 14 Pro. I was wondering whether it was a bug or a hardware fault with the sensor that enables the Tru Tone, or related to the AOD. I'll give turning off the AOD a go. "Good" to know others are having the same problem though.
 
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Same on my Pro Max. Thanks so much for starting this thread. The slow start up and change of colors has been driving me crazy. Glad to know I’m not the only one.

Hopefully gets resolved with a software update soon.
 
I noticed this on my 14 Pro. It would constantly change so slowly that my screen always had a varying degree of warmth/coolness. It was so annoying I turned off Tru Tone and enabled night shift at about 20% to warm up the display a bit.
 
Same here! And other thing: if i change (swipe between) from any app or iPhone menu to a photo opened in app photos, I can see the screen changing a little bit. (Like a single flash / blink / color adjust). But if i have the same photo on iCloud folder and if I do the same (swipe between some app and this folder nothing strange happen).

Note: I only can see this with external low light and and with iPhone screen with low light too. (It’s almost imperceptible with some external light).

I noticed this yesterday after posting a photo on instagram and I was comparing it to the one I had in the photo gallery.

Anyone else with this?
 
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Same on my 14 Pro. I thought I had a yellow tinted display, but as you mention, its just slow to respond when unlocking.
 
Yeahp, I can confirm it's happening on my 14 Pro too... it was ok the first day or two, now it's constantly happening, specially if I locked phone in a light environment and then unlock on a completely different one (eg. from daylight to cold LED lighting in the inside of a building). AOD is on. I might try switching it off for a while, to see if it improves. Bit annoying.
 
The same issue if I remember correctly was in the 12pro (apart from some inherently warmer screens) when it was first released, true tone response was too aggressive , sudden switch from cold to warm and such , and was fixed by an update
 
My 14 Pro is still having this issue after the 16.0.2 update. Seems related to always-on as it doesn’t happen when I toggle AOD off.
 
Same here. 14 Pro. Will be submitting a bug report. Don’t want to call the support as they will make me reset settings or even restore as a new phone.
 
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