Yep exactly the same issue, if I use Siri to set brightness to 50% and compare the screen with auto-brightness on and off the screen is a lot brighter and less yellow with auto-brightness off which doesn't really make sense.
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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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Yep exactly the same issue, if I use Siri to set brightness to 50% and compare the screen with auto-brightness on and off the screen is a lot brighter and less yellow with auto-brightness off which doesn't really make sense.
There are other threads discussing this. And I have provided ample support in those threads. Please check those out.
heh, never knew Siri could do this. nifty to hit the exact 50% mark
Check the other threads.
Hint - Your iPhone is defective. For details, read the other threads where this is discussed at length.
No sense, then why there are some perfect white and with more britness iphone 12's ? i returned my 12 PM after go to a store and see with my own eyes how other 12 PM was perfect white and with much more contrast comparing to mine... this is an issue im 100x100 sure, and i just returned my phone, if i see some Apple oficial note or fix i will buy it again, if not, i go to samsung
Every display is different. If some are white while some aren‘t, they can’t fix that in software. It would need a hardware swap.
Brightness for all should be the same except those with a defective Ambient Light Sensor. So with Auto Brightness on, the defective ones would be dimmer (assuming brightness was less than 100%). All healthy iPhones would be equally bright with varying tints.
And yet Samsung, Google, and others have done just that. Its possible, its whether they will do it.
Same here, but you can leave auto brightness on and just increase the brightness until you like the result. AB will adapt and your brightness will be higher than the "standard" auto brightness.
All of those companies also have much better tech than Apple. Apple is more about consumer electronics. AI and Deep Learning, not so much.
Anyway, I don’t think Google or Samsung would have selectively fixed some yellow units. If all units were yellow, it’s easy to fix. If there is no pattern, software can’t do jack because changing the ratio of colours would spoil an already white screen. So there’s no way even a tech company like Google can pull that off.
Well, i have never had this problem with any of my devices, whites are always white, if Apple cant guarantee me a normal display between quality standards, why im paying 1300€? loool thats only acceptable in low quality and price products, i started to think that we are stupids accepting this kind of things only cause "Apple" is cool and we want an iPhone, sometimes Androids apple-haters are right...
Not necessarily. In severe cases even 100% will seem very dull and give you a headache. In less severe cases you’ll be so much dimmer than a healthy display that you might want to always stay very close to max or even that might not be good enough.
And that statement alone is enough to show the depth of your knowledge.
Apple doesn’t have better QC than others. I’d argue because of their cost cutting and huge margins, they have worse QC (but much much much much better design) than any Android manufacturer at any price point.
I guarantee Apple has a way to filter down and figure out exactly which panels have issues with green flickering. If they can do that, they can track which are tinted. I think you are greatly underestimating how much control Apple has over production.
Also they don't have "much better tech" than Apple. Google is famous for hardware issues, and Samsung and Apple share many components together (including displays).
To be honest I think that maybe this years iPhone will have that yellow/greenish tint, we have gotten to use to the blueish tint that we expect every iPhone to look like that which in this case the panels on the new iPhones are the correct color temperature since that color is more natural, my X has that blueish color BUT my iPhone 12pro is way brighter, so if by December the iPhones still have that yellow tint then is more likely that that’s how all the iPhones will be from now on.
Well in my case if I do what i described it almost never goes over 3/4, so it's never maxed out, no. I also tested in bright sunlight compared to my X and the 12 is brighter with auto brightness on.
All I can say is on my phone I can reach the same auto brightness by tweaking the slider. Might not be the case for other phones.
We are looking at it wrong. Maybe they’ll offer a free screen protector this time.
You can't just make a blanket statement. Where are the facts? If the display adjusts brightness at all with auto brightness on, then your sensor chip is working correctly, and this is 99% sure a software issue. The AMB doesn't directly tell your display which brightness it should be on, it spits off a number and software determines the brightness based on brightness scale.
Green flickering should be fixable in software. Yellow tinted displays are unrelated to the green flickering issue. Yellow tint is actually by design. And to varying extents.
Tech isn’t hardware. Tech today is software/AI/Big Data/Deep Learning. Hardware falls under consumer electronics because it is all outsourced. Google has had manufacturing issues. But their “tech” is rock solid. Samsung doesn‘t have so many issues and deals better with issues when they do happen.
Coming back to yellow tint, let us wait and watch. But I’m pretty sure there is no way in software to tell which display has a yellow tint or not and to what extent. And even if it were theoretically possible, it is beyond Apple’s scope of expertise to fix such an issue.
Let us wait for the next few weeks.
I do know, new displays are a bit yellow. My 11 Pro was too. Now it’s perfectly white. So IMO there doesn’t seem to be an issue to me.
You have no idea about this. I have spent the last 12+ months researching this issue. First do all your tests. You need to have a certain level of knowledge and expertise before you can argue a case.
Finally my 3rd 12 Pro Max replacement unit today is uniform blue matches the same screen colour as my iPhone 11 Pro and Macbook air 2019......
First phone arrived with yellow screen true tone turned off with a dust under camera lens....
Second phone arrived with scratches on the side of the phone screen had a couple of dead pixels on the screen...
Third phone arrive everything perfect...
Apple Quality control is shocking
First phone arrived with yellow screen true tone turned off with a dust under camera lens....
Second phone arrived with scratches on the side of the phone screen had a couple of dead pixels on the screen...
Third phone arrive everything perfect...
Apple Quality control is shocking
Lol yellow tint is by design? So this year Apple took a perfectly loved display from the last 3 generations of iPhone and intentionally made it worse?
Tech isn't hardware????? Are you for real? Your telling me that a company that just created a SOC chip that runs better than an i7 at a fraction of the cost/size, that also created a night mode camera algorithm that can literally pull shadow detail out of a dark room using computational software, this company is unable to slightly adjust the color tint of a phone display???
Apple has built their entire ecosystem off the fact that they control hardware and software, I guarantee they can fix this if they want to.
You've spent the last 12 months researching AMB sensor on a phone released a month ago???