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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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Just a thought, could any of the screen tint issues be to do with having a screen protector on the phone? If the screen protector covers the whole screen (including the camera), could that possibly be affecting the ambient light sensor and True Tone somehow?
As I say, just a thought, I could be way of base!
As I say, just a thought, I could be way of base!
What I've noticed with the green tint issue is very strange. I have a 12 Pro with a supposedly bad Samsung G9P panel (checked using i4tools). As others have noticed, and through my testing from observing a black image at brightness levels below 100%, my screen will glow with a green tint when the pixels should be off. In my case I have pinpointed the exact brightness levels between which this issue occurs and it's bizarre.
Check this, (auto brightness turned off) the glow occurs from 0-63% brightness, set by Siri. 64-100% is where i don't see any issue. What's even stranger is that with brightnesses including and within the range of 21% and 63%, the pixels will turn off a few seconds after the app switcher bar at the bottom fades out. This does not happen at 20% and lower brightness levels, the pixels will stay on until the screen turns itself off (if you have an auto-lock setting). To add to this, I do observe a noticeable green tint to greys at 0-5% brightness, most easily seen in the menus of the settings app when the iPhone is set to dark mode. The top half of my display seems to tint green more, starting from below the centre and increasingly as it reaches the top where it's most noticeable. This might be a result of the G9P panel, who knows. It seems as others have suggested, Samsung has run into issues with their displays and green tinting for this years phones. It looks like Samsung kind of fixed it with a software update to their phones which gives me hope for fixes for the iPhones, but it is a big shambles this year.
Finally, I do seem to notice a yellow tint to my 12 Pro. It's definitely more yellow than all of my devices, though I am coming from an LCD iPhone 7 which as I can see from this thread is inherently more blue in it's technology, and a 2015 MBP 13" which is also similar in that regard. My problem is, I don't know which one's most accurate. Maybe I should invest in a colorimeter to calibrate at least one display which I can use for a reference point to see where the others stand, even if just for a D65 white point. But before then, I'm inclined to compare it with in-store display models.
Check this, (auto brightness turned off) the glow occurs from 0-63% brightness, set by Siri. 64-100% is where i don't see any issue. What's even stranger is that with brightnesses including and within the range of 21% and 63%, the pixels will turn off a few seconds after the app switcher bar at the bottom fades out. This does not happen at 20% and lower brightness levels, the pixels will stay on until the screen turns itself off (if you have an auto-lock setting). To add to this, I do observe a noticeable green tint to greys at 0-5% brightness, most easily seen in the menus of the settings app when the iPhone is set to dark mode. The top half of my display seems to tint green more, starting from below the centre and increasingly as it reaches the top where it's most noticeable. This might be a result of the G9P panel, who knows. It seems as others have suggested, Samsung has run into issues with their displays and green tinting for this years phones. It looks like Samsung kind of fixed it with a software update to their phones which gives me hope for fixes for the iPhones, but it is a big shambles this year.
Finally, I do seem to notice a yellow tint to my 12 Pro. It's definitely more yellow than all of my devices, though I am coming from an LCD iPhone 7 which as I can see from this thread is inherently more blue in it's technology, and a 2015 MBP 13" which is also similar in that regard. My problem is, I don't know which one's most accurate. Maybe I should invest in a colorimeter to calibrate at least one display which I can use for a reference point to see where the others stand, even if just for a D65 white point. But before then, I'm inclined to compare it with in-store display models.
This is a legitimate site that’s been around for years and well known in around the Apple community.
Honestly what is the worst that will happen. They know the production date and which iPhone you have? The serial doesn't have any personal identifying information.
Just received my 3rd iphone mini. Confirmed it's from the Foxconn factory per the serial. Setting it up now with fingers crossed.
With your serial number, someone once told me that they could commit insurance fraud with it.
Pro Max Pacific Blue with yellow tint when TT is on of course. Production week 43. G0N serial number. And then what do you do or what these infos tell you???
TT on will have a yellow tint even if your iPhone has the best calibration in the history of the earth. This thread is for people with yellow tints with TT OFF and Night Shift OFF.
It was perfect on my XR, never turned it off. On my 12 its like looking at my iPhone after it fell into chicken noodle soup.
I compared my 12 pro with my friend's and saw a noticeable brightness difference. (See photo). Credit to the random reddit thread I saw this suggestion, but I ended up:
going into accessibility settings --> toggling the reduce white point switch--> sliding it all the way to left --> then turning it off. That ended up fixing my dim display issue. If you're experiencing just a dimmer display (doesn't address yellowing), I would fiddle with that setting to see if it fixes it. There must be some bug that triggers that setting without it being toggled.
going into accessibility settings --> toggling the reduce white point switch--> sliding it all the way to left --> then turning it off. That ended up fixing my dim display issue. If you're experiencing just a dimmer display (doesn't address yellowing), I would fiddle with that setting to see if it fixes it. There must be some bug that triggers that setting without it being toggled.
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The suspense is killing us
don't hold your breath, odds are it's going to be the same yellow tint.
Exactly. The funny thing is, if you turn TT on and flash a decently bright blue LED on the light sensor (like from a flashlight) you can make the screen look bluer than with the TT off. Otherwise under regular incandescent lightbulbs TT looks way too warm.
Maybe software calibration can address this.