As requested, brightness around 40%. I think it looks great and the blacks are not crushed.
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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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Got my replacement 12 today. Is it as white as my wife’s X? No, but it’s definitely an improvement. The screen has much less of a greener tint. I’m guessing if I had a display calibrator it would show a higher red RGB value. I think I’ll keep this one as it looks pretty good and I don’t really wanna go through the lottery again.
Some stats: Serial is DNQ, week 43. Screen serial is GH303...
Left is new iPhone, right is old. Both set to 50% brightness by siri.
Some stats: Serial is DNQ, week 43. Screen serial is GH303...
Left is new iPhone, right is old. Both set to 50% brightness by siri.
Interesting, it seems your panel is manufactured by LG. Prefix GH supposedly has a high chance of being bad, but if it’s looking better to you, you might be lucky with a good one. How are the greys looking at lowest brightness?
I just got off a chat with a senior advisor. I asked him if they've had many complaints about the yellowing, and he said yes but kept repeating that engineering has concluded it's "expected behaviour". I'm exchanging mine.
So lame... Looks like they did not receive the same internal notes and what to pitch about these issues.
Of the issues you described I “only” have:
1) yellow tint on white background
2) some element of green when looking at a dark grey image like this - especially if compared to my iPad Pro and iPhone XR.
Yeah, go for it. Are you out of your return period and doing a swap or doing a return and buying a new one?
It is lame. At the end of the day, a screen makes up an overwhelming majority of the experience of owning a smartphone. Every interaction you have with your phone is done through your display. Viewing any sort of content is impacted by a subpar display. Take photos and videos for example. You will perceive the photos that you take as warmer/yellower than they actually are. When you’re paying a premium for a “pro” product, it sucks to feel shortchanged and treated as customers who’ll just accept these lapses in display tolerances. Granted, it seems like average consumers don’t notice/care about this but that doesn’t mean everyone can be painted with the same brush.
I feel like these advisors are the ones telling the truth, even though it is not what we want to hear. Deep deep down we all know Apple will do nothing about this. They would have done something already. They fixed the touch issues in the Mini a week after release.
The fix for many of these tint issues would have been a software update giving access to each user to truly adjust colors and/or the white point. Just hide this in the display settings section as “Advanced Display Settings” and add a couple of warnings to discourage the average user from touching this. I’m no software expert, but this does not sound like something that would take 1+ months to develop.
But there is likely a hardware issue in many panels and they literally prefer people to just return and repurchase than admitting a flaw.
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Not out of my return period. I've got AppleCare anyway. I want to just do a swap, but I'll have to call them and discuss that after work.
Yeah, my wife has a regular 12 that's yellow as well. Just as bad as my PM, but she doesn't care lol.
Honestly I think "yellowing" is a bit of a misnomer. At least in my case. My whites are actually fine. Maybe a bit warmer than my 11PM was, but not obscenely so. For me it's the dark greys. They look horrible. That's why it took me a while to notice and thought you were all over reacting.
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as exciting as it might be I'm never buying an iPhone on launch day again... waiting till after January from now on.... This experience has left a really bad taste in my mouth.... 😐
I got express replacement for my 12 mini. The original 12 mini was delivered back to Apple on December 2nd but if I check my repair status it says "Please return your original product by December 9, 2020" I checked with Apple and they confirmed that they've received the goods. Is this normal? How long does your guys express replacement or Apple online store return take? (Same thing happened with my 12 mini leather case return on Apple online store)
Honestly the greys look pretty good. Night mode on my old one looked kinda greenish which I hated, but it looks pretty great on my new one.
Dark grey is where I noticed it too. Especially at zero/low brightness in dark mode. There's a slight green cast on lighter greys, more prominent when Night Shift is turned on. Never noticed this on my 11 Pro Max.
That being said, do I want to delve into the pit of swapping/replacing despair?
as exciting as it might be I'm never buying an iPhone on launch day again... waiting till after January from now on.... This experience has left a really bad taste in my mouth....
This 100%. If anything, lesson learned is to avoid all the launch hype and wait a couple of months before buying. Following this thread has been exhausting.
That's not really how Apple do though.
It does. All 12 series phones do it. You just haven’t seen it yet.
I'm confused, why are you posting screenshots again? They show nothing about a display's quality.
Screenshots dont show the tint of the screen at all. Only photos of the display.
I’m pretty sure he’s joking. Or at least I hope he is ...
But i have not ever seen anything similar than this year series. All iPhones i meticulously tested are exactly or almost exactly the same tint. 6 by now. 3 of them replacement units. Will test the last one on Thursday. Ím pretty sure will be the exact same again. Is really strange statistically. 6 phones until now, all the same grade of yellow. Ím starting thinking this is intentional.
