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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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I don’t know. It’s so widespread that Apple might take notice. Had it affected only a few units, they wouldn’t have done anything.
Correct. But that doesn’t necessarily mean Apple will fix it via an update. They designed it this way, in their own words.
Thats right. But if it's not hardware, exchanging the phone does not make sense.
Every 12 mini screen I saw, looked nearly identical. There were some minor differences, but thats totally normal.
It would be great, if apple would give us something like a temperature slider in the screen settings.
It totally makes sense to exchange it. If I know there is a software issue that affects say 1% of iPhones that Apple will never fix, and exchanging the iPhone will fix the issue, it totally makes sense to exchange the iPhone. The issue with iPhone 12 is 99% iPhones have xyz issue, so only 1% don’t have said issue, making it a lottery.
I am talking in general. Not with respect to this issue in particular.
Almost all iPhone 12s have yellow tint, exchange is unlikely to help.
So I still find my second Mini, which is much better than my first as more reddish than yellowish and almost no washed out colors, to be very warm. Not yellow but warm.
A comparison to my LCD 11 is night and day difference in color calibration, the 11 is way colder, even though it also has a slight red tint to it.
Now I compared it to my work phone Samsung A50 with it's oled display. And it is a difference in a positive and negative way. The A50 also has a reddish tint but is way colder calibrated. Seems more realistic to me. But you can also see that the 12 Mini has a better display as text is better readable, the A50 shows text in an ok quality with a tilt, you have to read in a strange position to enjoy reading the text. When you look straight down on it, text is washed out on the A50. And the A50 has a very heavy color shift when tilting it, the iPhone 12 Mini has almost no color shift, just a very slight blue shift on a certain ankle. But no loss of quality.
I have no idea what to do. I love the Mini but want a very good display, maybe the one with the red tint and good text reading is as best as it can get on the 12 series. My Mini before this was bad display with yellowish screen and washed out text. Which I first realized when comparing it and then could not unsee it. But I am still not happy. I have till the end of January to return it to amazon. I can wait, I have time but I just want the iPhone I am gonna keep and not exchange it all the time, returning stuff through holidays and having to wait to get my money back.
Strangely amazon in my country had all iPhone 12 and Mini available, now almost no normal 12 is available. And some 12 Mini also sold out. 12 Pro Max was also available in some configurations. Now nothing, all sold out and available next months. I don't know if it has something to do with Christmas or if Apple reacted to the complaints and try to find a solution and production is delayed or slowed down because of QC? But that would mean it would be a HW defect.
A comparison to my LCD 11 is night and day difference in color calibration, the 11 is way colder, even though it also has a slight red tint to it.
Now I compared it to my work phone Samsung A50 with it's oled display. And it is a difference in a positive and negative way. The A50 also has a reddish tint but is way colder calibrated. Seems more realistic to me. But you can also see that the 12 Mini has a better display as text is better readable, the A50 shows text in an ok quality with a tilt, you have to read in a strange position to enjoy reading the text. When you look straight down on it, text is washed out on the A50. And the A50 has a very heavy color shift when tilting it, the iPhone 12 Mini has almost no color shift, just a very slight blue shift on a certain ankle. But no loss of quality.
I have no idea what to do. I love the Mini but want a very good display, maybe the one with the red tint and good text reading is as best as it can get on the 12 series. My Mini before this was bad display with yellowish screen and washed out text. Which I first realized when comparing it and then could not unsee it. But I am still not happy. I have till the end of January to return it to amazon. I can wait, I have time but I just want the iPhone I am gonna keep and not exchange it all the time, returning stuff through holidays and having to wait to get my money back.
Strangely amazon in my country had all iPhone 12 and Mini available, now almost no normal 12 is available. And some 12 Mini also sold out. 12 Pro Max was also available in some configurations. Now nothing, all sold out and available next months. I don't know if it has something to do with Christmas or if Apple reacted to the complaints and try to find a solution and production is delayed or slowed down because of QC? But that would mean it would be a HW defect.
I'm stucked.
As you see in a previous post my 12 PM screen with TT off seems pretty ok, but with TT on it literally sucks.
I don't want to disable the TT because i use it on my other device (i.e. macbook it is great) and i'm happy, but on thst unit that screen it getting me crazy.
Sometime is acceptable, sometimes it's yello.
I cannot accept a 1.400€ expense (more than a macbook!!!) for a product with a poor screen.
I'm hesitnant to give up because i hate android and the device is solid, beatiful, great audio, great rx.
But with an awful screen
My wife 12P is definetely better.
During this year of different iphone i undestood that: the warmer the screen is the duller it looks.
I have until 20 jan to return, this is the second unit i change, a 3rd one is coming, but i have little to no hopes reading your comments.
I wish to order a new one but i don't like this philosophy of go back and forth with returns.
Do they ban if you return too many times?
I'm close to give up, purchase a cheap 64gb X and wait for better times to come.
I'm said to say that it does not worth the crazy price at all.
As you see in a previous post my 12 PM screen with TT off seems pretty ok, but with TT on it literally sucks.
I don't want to disable the TT because i use it on my other device (i.e. macbook it is great) and i'm happy, but on thst unit that screen it getting me crazy.
Sometime is acceptable, sometimes it's yello.
I cannot accept a 1.400€ expense (more than a macbook!!!) for a product with a poor screen.
I'm hesitnant to give up because i hate android and the device is solid, beatiful, great audio, great rx.
But with an awful screen
My wife 12P is definetely better.
During this year of different iphone i undestood that: the warmer the screen is the duller it looks.
I have until 20 jan to return, this is the second unit i change, a 3rd one is coming, but i have little to no hopes reading your comments.
I wish to order a new one but i don't like this philosophy of go back and forth with returns.
Do they ban if you return too many times?
I'm close to give up, purchase a cheap 64gb X and wait for better times to come.
I'm said to say that it does not worth the crazy price at all.
This is exactly what I mean. As you mentioned before it seems like Apple designed the screens this way, or it is a software / calibration bug.
iPhone 11 Pro and Apple Watch have a bluer screen, so I hope apple will correct the calibration. It is definitely not a hardware defect, because using truetone outisde in daylight turns the screen perfect white and nearly all iPhone 12 have the issue, regardless of screen manufacturer or screen size. After you exchanged your phone, you may think you got a much whiter or bluer screen, but some minor differences in color accurancy between two different phones are totally normal.
I don't trust people who say "perfect white.
You are right. There is no perfect white. But the screen turns as white as my apple watch series 6 and has no yellow tint.
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also in my opinion the panels have been deliberately calibrated more yellow and I must say that by now I'm used to it .. the real solution was to add an indicator to be able to easily change the color temperature which is possible in almost all competing smartphones
Today i checked several iPhones and i can confirm, the only one which had very bright white and a slightly sharper display was the one with Serial Number: G6TDQ
I also tested others with G6TDR but wasn’t as good and some slight yellow. (Still , on its own acceptable display)
Will Q mean special quality checked ? Hard to say right now.
I can confirm this. I received one with G6TDQ by myself. Perfect compared to G6TDR.
However, IPhoneX still had a slightly whiter and more bright appearance, could be due to the OLED panel which settled after 2-3 years. Anyway. G6TDQ is good. and Good Panels really do exist!
This is serial number of screen or phone? My iPhone 12 has yellow tint, as if there was some color filter. I checked and there is no color filter active, night shift off and True Tone off. I can’t exchange, they only offers me to send it to Apple (as I bought it at a reseller store) and they will look into the problem and see if it has to be repaired or not and would have to wait like 3/4 days without phone. So this it not an option to me, I hope apple fix this.
What do you mean with “real solution was to add an indicator ... to change the color temperature”?
Where is that indicator?
I really hope I missed something. Please don’t say, that you mean adjusting the color filter.
He meant that it would be nice if Apple add in the Settings a colour temperature slider. Wishful thinking.What do you mean with “real solution was to add an indicator ... to change the color temperature”?
Where is that indicator?
I really hope I missed something. Please don’t say, that you mean adjusting the color filter.
Would like to add for most users, the display is still ok. However, seems some variances are really possible and i think the best you can do is just to go to the store and compare it there.
Not yet I am waiting until January so I can get a late build as possible before the return period is up.
I've gotten to the point where I can tell right away without comparing to another phone. i saw a few at best buy this week on display that had nice crisp white screens..... Also bought an iPhone 12 for my mom at T-mobile last week and that had a nice crisp white screen. This gives me hope that it's getting fixed on later production models.
Let's hope but honestly I don't have much hope either. I'm always disgusted when looking at my iPhone display. Never had a phone where I was put off using it.
Nothing is changed with 14.3 in regards to this issue, you can install it right now with the public beta profile.