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

16.1 seems to have fixed this for me. I haven't seen the slow TrueTone issue since I updated. 16.1 has been much better all around for me. Seems like 16.1 is what 16.0 was supposed to be.
 
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utsava said:
16.1 seems to have fixed this for me. I haven't seen the slow TrueTone issue since I updated. 16.1 has been much better all around for me. Seems like 16.1 is what 16.0 was supposed to be.
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Unfortunately not the case for me. Definitely saw the delayed response again on 16.1.
 
I do feel it has gotten better. It overdid it last night when I checked the phone on my couch and the screen was all the way off. Sure its dark af in my living room right now but I really do want to read whats on my dark mode phone.
 
I just recently exchanged my 14 pro max because I had issue with cellular reception. Now I have an iPhone that has these weird True Tone issues. Is it really a Software thing? Why didn’t my previous 14 pro have this to issue?
 
NauCayuti said:
Unfortunately not the case for me. Definitely saw the delayed response again on 16.1.
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Bummer... I'm at 2+ days now and still haven't seen the TuruTone issue again. Not sure if that's attributed to 16.1, the force reboot I needed to do for the "black screen of death", or a combination of both.
 
I still see the issue at random times on my 14PM. I think it's buggier in part due to the new second Ambient sensor added to the back of the iPhone. It's just favors warmer tones more so than previous gens, and it changes very suddenly at times.
 
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VSMacOne said:
I still see the issue at random times on my 14PM. I think it's buggier in part due to the new second Ambient sensor added to the back of the iPhone. It's just favors warmer tones more so than previous gens, and it changes very suddenly at times.
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Completely forgot about the second sensor. Good point.
 
I thought this was fixed in 16.1

I was wrong.

Picked up the phone today, 2 secs later: cool tones to warm tones instantly BAM!

C’mon Apple, get to work!

And in case others have the issue and haven’t reported it yet, please do so. Thanks!
 
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Apple support advised me to reset settings yesterday and I didn’t see the issue until now. I hope it works for you also.
 
Hi, a new iOS 16.1.1 update has been released today. It only mentions security fixes. Has anyone updated and can report if the issues is fixed. Also important: Do you feel the device being slower etc? In my experience only the first iOS version the phone was shipped with is snappy and smooth and as soon as you update you lose some portion of that.
 
BurningShell said:
Hi, a new iOS 16.1.1 update has been released today. It only mentions security fixes. Has anyone updated and can report if the issues is fixed. Also important: Do you feel the device being slower etc? In my experience only the first iOS version the phone was shipped with is snappy and smooth and as soon as you update you lose some portion of that.
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Though I think the brightness can be uncharacteristically slow to respond versus other iPhones I've had, for the most part this issue has been resolved for me since 16.1.
 
I use the iPhone SE 2022. It has no AOD. Nevertheless, the True Tone bug occurres with me and that since iOS 16.1.1, when waking up or restarting the iPhone, the screen colors are cold and bluish (that ugly base tone of the SE screen without True Tone). I have to restart True Tone in the settings each time by turning it off and on again, then True Tone works again, but only until the next time I wake up the iPhone. I have now found out that the bug is caused by the background image. When I use the original iOS 16 background image, that blue-yellow-green one with the depth effect, the bug does not occur and True Tone works fine and operates reliably. However, if I use any other background image, the bug occurs and True Tone no longer works properly and takes a very long time to adjust. I assume that the bug is caused by the depth effect function, when i use a background image what does not support the depth effect. I think this feature is nonsense anyway, Apple should get rid of it.
 
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EDIT: i redact it. True tone works when switched on and off cause there was a accesibility setting turned on
 
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OldBetsysMother said:
Ok, i'm on iOS 16.1.2 now and the bug continues. 👎
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There was no such error on my 14Pro. A couple of days ago I bought a 14Pro Max (now iOS 16.2), on which I found this bug.
I assume that this is not a software bug, but the incorrect operation of the ambient light sensor (manufacturing defect?)
Unusually yellow screen is very annoying :confused:
 
Alfieg said:
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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About 15 seconds
 
Xutos said:
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 with photo. Is there any solution?
 
Miles Davis said:
Same thing on my 14 Pro, even after 16.0.2. Sounds like it’s a software bug, and I only learned that on the forum. But it’s frustrating to feel like you might have to call Apple before the return period ends or else potentially be stuck with an AppleCare refurb (if it was a hardware issue).
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how did you solve the problem?
 
Same issue here, but it only started happening this week I think. It seems to happen on average once a day. So, it’s intermittent and not super frequent.
 
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