I own my second 12 mini, first was too washed out and also had a yellow tint. First was 13th Nov apple online order, the new one was from a week ago from amazon. This one is much better but has a slight reddish tint. But quite happy as the colors pop more and text doesn't seem washed out. Only thing is black pixel issue, but so far no flickering or green tint seen yet.
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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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Looks like my replacement will be a G0 week 42. Dammit. Well if it’s not good it’s going back too.
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Shocked by how much of a brightness variation there is too
I picked up 6 units across 12/mini/pro/max
mine was substantially brighter than every single one with auto brightness off on both
I didn’t see any that were yellow on display at apple. Wanted to see some dingyness and couldn’t find it
I picked up 6 units across 12/mini/pro/max
mine was substantially brighter than every single one with auto brightness off on both
I didn’t see any that were yellow on display at apple. Wanted to see some dingyness and couldn’t find it
Here is my G6TDC Wk 36 next to my 11Pro. 12Pro is on the right. The 12Pro is very slightly warmer. It does have the raised blacks issue. My 11Pro has a nice white screen and the 12 Pro in my opinion is very acceptable.
This is the iPhone 12PM at Costco that I mentioned before. Compared to mine it was perfect in the white colors, more punch, depth and definition.
Serial number: G6TDG9580D42
Nice Name: iPhone 12 Pro Max
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Group2: 12ProMax
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Screen size: 6.7 inch
Screen resolution: 2778x1284 pixels
Colour: Pacific Blue
Production year : 2020
Production week : 39 (September)
Model introduced: 2020
Capacity: 128GB
Motherboard number: Please tell us the motherboard number of this iPhone if you know it.
Memory - flavour: xx
Factory: G6 (China, Shenzhen - Foxconn)
Serial number: G6TDG9580D42
Nice Name: iPhone 12 Pro Max
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Family name:
Group1: iPhone
Group2: 12ProMax
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EMC number: Please tell us the EMC number of this product if you know it.
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Screen size: 6.7 inch
Screen resolution: 2778x1284 pixels
Colour: Pacific Blue
Production year : 2020
Production week : 39 (September)
Model introduced: 2020
Capacity: 128GB
Motherboard number: Please tell us the motherboard number of this iPhone if you know it.
Memory - flavour: xx
Factory: G6 (China, Shenzhen - Foxconn)
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Of course. Before comparing I turned of TT, AB, NS, no filters applied and turned the brightness to 100%. Did the same with mine and compared both screens side by side.
Searching in this thread and other forums I don't see a correlation of serial numbers/production weeks with good/bad panels. There are good and bad panels on phones with SN G6TD. In my case, I had a production week 45 and now 49, and both have warmer and dull whites. The perfect one from Costco is production week 39. I think is a matter of luck. I wish I could have my laptop at that moment to obtain the screen serial number from the display unit at Costco. I tried to purchase one but they didn't have any in stock.
Hi everyone, I have been following this thread for about a week. I've bought an iPhone 12 pro, I've compared it to my brother's iPhone X (both phones with TT off, NS off etc.) and my 12P definitely has a disgusting yellow tint.
Same thing when I've compared it to a Huawei 10 mate pro (OLED display), a Samsung Galaxy A50 (OLED display), a Samsung S6 (OLED display), a macbook pro 13, an iPad pro, a LG monitor (IPS display). The most similar display that I've found is the one of the Samsung S10 (OLED), which has a warm white too, but is still better than my iPhone 12P.
I understand that with OLED display one can have a warmer colour balance, but this yellow tint has nothing to do with a warm white. These iPhone 12 displays are just bad quality panels.
Also, I've got the issue where pixels are not completely turned off with black pictures at brightness under 100%.
If I had to guess, I would say that Apple just increased the tolerance range when testing the calibration of the displays in order to accelerate the production and release iPhone 12 in October/November (if I am not wrong, at some point rumors suggested November/December as iPhone 12 release date). Maybe performing a very good calibration that gives perfect white takes much more time and for this reason Samsung and LG are just decreasing the quality of the calibration since Apple allows them to do it by increasing the tolerance range. I don't know, I am definitely not an expert, so I'm just guessing and I know that my reasoning may be completely wrong.
One more (sad) thing. I've tried to watch a few videos simultaneously on the 12P, the Huawei mate 10 pro and the LG IPS monitor. In dark and semi-dark scenes (actually in every scene apart from outdoor scenes with sun shining) the colours on the Huawei and the LG monitor basically look the same, while on the 12P it looks like if I am watching the scene through a green bottle glass. This cannot be just a different choice of calibration. This is just horrible and unacceptable for a 1000$ device. Man! Even a Samsung galaxy s6 (release date 2015) does a better job! Way better!
I don't think this is the same greenish black issue that lots of people have, since in dark setting menu the black and the grey are just fine.
I'm going to return the 12P back and sadly I don't think I will buy another one...
Same thing when I've compared it to a Huawei 10 mate pro (OLED display), a Samsung Galaxy A50 (OLED display), a Samsung S6 (OLED display), a macbook pro 13, an iPad pro, a LG monitor (IPS display). The most similar display that I've found is the one of the Samsung S10 (OLED), which has a warm white too, but is still better than my iPhone 12P.
I understand that with OLED display one can have a warmer colour balance, but this yellow tint has nothing to do with a warm white. These iPhone 12 displays are just bad quality panels.
Also, I've got the issue where pixels are not completely turned off with black pictures at brightness under 100%.
If I had to guess, I would say that Apple just increased the tolerance range when testing the calibration of the displays in order to accelerate the production and release iPhone 12 in October/November (if I am not wrong, at some point rumors suggested November/December as iPhone 12 release date). Maybe performing a very good calibration that gives perfect white takes much more time and for this reason Samsung and LG are just decreasing the quality of the calibration since Apple allows them to do it by increasing the tolerance range. I don't know, I am definitely not an expert, so I'm just guessing and I know that my reasoning may be completely wrong.
One more (sad) thing. I've tried to watch a few videos simultaneously on the 12P, the Huawei mate 10 pro and the LG IPS monitor. In dark and semi-dark scenes (actually in every scene apart from outdoor scenes with sun shining) the colours on the Huawei and the LG monitor basically look the same, while on the 12P it looks like if I am watching the scene through a green bottle glass. This cannot be just a different choice of calibration. This is just horrible and unacceptable for a 1000$ device. Man! Even a Samsung galaxy s6 (release date 2015) does a better job! Way better!
I don't think this is the same greenish black issue that lots of people have, since in dark setting menu the black and the grey are just fine.
I'm going to return the 12P back and sadly I don't think I will buy another one...
I'm returning my 12PM this Monday too. I received it on Thursday, used it for these past days and I can't tolerate that my car's display using Car Play produce better-balanced whites than my 12PM.
I also noticed when having the raised blacks issue (on my mini below 65% brightness) the battery drain is noticeable. When having the issue the battery lasts less than my previous iPhone XS and that’s something. Once I raised brightness above threshold (>65%) and the blacks are actually blacks the battery lasts noticeably longer. So theres that I guess. Really bums me out.
Picked up my 2nd 12pro and it has a perfect white screen! text and colors are vibrant and sharp!
I'm so happy right now!
SN# starts with G6TDQ
updating software right now. Will post a comparison photo later.
I'm so happy right now!
SN# starts with G6TDQ
updating software right now. Will post a comparison photo later.
QUALITY CONTROL. Yes I’m screaming because Apples QC keeps getting worse each year. Too many major issues
That happened with my first 12PM. My second and current one doesn’t do that above 10% of brightness. Both had iOS 14.2.1.
Can someone please explain to me what I’m witnessing here?
Please see the video 🙏🏼
Is this the issue of raised blacks? Or what is it?
I only noticed it now, with dark mode on, low brightness, as I scroll up and down the setting, the grey sort of melts into the black... since this is a recording from the phone, it must be software? Otherwise why would the screen represent it exactly the same way as I experienced it?
At thr same time, if software, why only with low brightness?
Please see the video 🙏🏼
Is this the issue of raised blacks? Or what is it?
I only noticed it now, with dark mode on, low brightness, as I scroll up and down the setting, the grey sort of melts into the black... since this is a recording from the phone, it must be software? Otherwise why would the screen represent it exactly the same way as I experienced it?
At thr same time, if software, why only with low brightness?
This is not software, it's a characteristic of OLED. All OLED iPhones do this. Watching the video on an LCD screen does not do the same thing. I actually can't see what you see from the video, but I know what you're talking about.
Is the flickering people are talking about when looking at black screens. When I go into the night shift tab the screen seems lighter black and then turns to dark black in less than a second. If I toggle in and out of that setting it does that.. is that we are talking about with the blacks?
So I put in my 12PM Serial Number but it can’t find any information on the phone. Weird
Based on this image above, my iPhone looks good right? Colors are good and I won the lottery right? At least it seems.....but....
Nope. This is my iPad Pro 11 and in real life it is milky white to my eyes. But the image fools you to think otherwise. Is it because the iPhone is actually D65 AND the iPad MINI 5 camera picks it up ? I don’t know, I’m no expert. I did have a yellower and dull 12 PM before this one. And the current one I tolerate because, although warmer, the colors are vivid and my eyes have adjusted to it. That’s just my case. Also, when I’m not comparing it anything else my 12 PM is milky white (TT off). I have a G6TDP.
Bottomline, take PHOTOS POSTED HERE CAUTIOUSLY AS SOME MAY APPEAR WHITE, WHEN IN FACT THEY ARE FAR FROM PERFECT. Everyone is different and I provided the feedback to apple that I hate the yellow screen, I tolerate because I am locked into their ecosystem, but they need to tighten quality control.
I do have the flickering issue and that may be the final push for me to return. I will wait for another week and if they don’t fix, this phone might be going back. I love the phone design and I gave them a pass on the yellow, but the flickering I may not.