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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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After reading 90% of this thread, nearly 5000 comments, I'm still not sure if I should wait for a fix in the upcoming months or just upgrade to the 11 Pro Max (I am currently using 8 Plus 
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Thanks for posting some real photos.
As I thought, the screen of your 12 appears about as yellow relative to the 11 as mine and everyone elses does. It's clearly down to user perception and tolerance levels.
I must admit, on some days, my 12 screen looks fine. It does seem to depend a lot on ambient light and this is without the influence of True Tone. Almost as if the True Tone setting in my eyes is broken. But don't tell Apple this, as they will use it as an excuse no doubt!
Seriously though - I really do think this whole mess can be fixed with a simple colour temperature slider to calibrate the screen to your liking. They trust us to move the white point on our Macs, so why not the iPhone. If it was possible to Jailbreak the 12, I'd do it just for this.
If your 12 is the one on the right then it’s just as yellow as all ours and all the others!
yes, the same as mine and the vast mnajority of all of us
If this was true then how do you explain the iPhone 12's that are not affected by this?
maybe they just dont realize their phone is yellow... like many do
On your last photo uniformity looks bad. Much darker bottom half of the screen and a bit different hue that upper half. Is this what everyone is seeing with theirs? Mine is darker and greenish on the bottom and then brighter and pinkish/reddish on upper half.
This is what this what this entire thread is about. There is no denying that the phone on the right looks yellow and off. It that doesn’t bother you, good for you, but I cannot unsee that. Can’t for instance edit picture on a screen that is so off compared to other screens.
Would be nice if you translated your text to English before posting here since it is an English speaking forum. And your text is interesting also.
I ran your text through google translate and I wholeheartedly agree. I had the same experience with my iPhone 12 pro, I went to the Apple store and found 1 PERFECT example, as the phone on the right in your picture also is.
This is not a software issue. It’s hardware. Undoubtedly so.
When I was testing phones I in the store there was variance between the different phones in regards to yellowness/faded contrast. All were yellow, but to varying degree. One 12 pro max looked incredibly dim even with full brightness. In fact all of the phones had some sort of screen variance between them.
EXCEPT for one perfect example of a 12 pro with perfect screen. Just a normal, white, good contrast and good screen. Just as you would expect from this phone. All setting were the same same iOS version.
This simply would not be the case if it was a software issue. All the phones were running the same software but the difference in the screens were obvious.
I’m very glad to see that a good screen does excist and that it can be found. But it is also frustrating and very mind boggeling that such a variance in screen quality can be released into the market. What are Apple thinking.
12 mini vs 11 regular at max brightness - white image. Sorry about quality as I had to use an older phone to capture it - but the color is on point.
I compared to a regular, bleached A4-printer-sheet of paper and the 12 mini was actually only slightly "hotter" than that. The 11 looked a bit cold, blueish. Both with tru-tone off.
Considering keeping the 12 mini as it looks ok on it's own. Or perhaps try another one and return the worst of them.
I saw one of those "perfect" screens on display in a Target store recently. Unfortunately however, right now it seems the odds are heavily stacked against you when playing the screen lottery. I don't know what Apple was thinking, but being under pressure to release new phones during a pandemic, lower tolerances may have been in play. It also seems that Apple is slow to respond to the problem with vague references made by Apple employees that Apple is aware of the problem and a software update is coming. If there is no change soon, I think the best thing to do if you can't live with the phone you have is to find an alternative - older iPhone model, another brand or just wait until the next release. Exchanging the phone over and over without positive results just results in frustration and disappointment.
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For me is hard to believe that all this yellow screen phenomenon is caused because pandemic and lower tolerances. I tested and returned 5 pro max all with the exact same yellow tint grade. It makes me wonder, why is easier to get that tint than a colder white point? And if it would be a matter of low tolerances, yellow tinted displays would vary a lot one each other and would be much more colder screens out there, and that is not the case. The yellow tint is very consistent between most of the devices i have seen and tested.
I really want to believe this is an error that would be fixed, but what i end thinking using my logic is that this might be intended. Cant understand why, but is what i think.
And remember, iPad Pro 2020 was released in pandemic too and dont have this issue. Also oled panels are the same than iphone 11 pros, just have different sizes, so the calibration shouldn’t be too different than past year. Same technology. Everything is so weird.
You don't mind uniformity issue with your 11? Pretty noticeable difference between upper and lower half of the screen.
Your wish is granted.
Iphone 12 on the right not affected by the yellow tint screen.
Stop saying that’s the norm. We all have to complain because it is not acceptable to have basic yellow color screens, knowing that there is true tone and night shift for that.
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Maybe is because this thread topic is
Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
Not non uniformity of your screen or other issues the iphones might have.Would be better to see a direct comparison with exact same background.
As far as I can tell.
There are two types of screens: a greenish yellow screen and a slightly yellow screen.
The slightly yellow screen has a slightly lower brightness.
I wonder if there really is a white screen.
There are two types of screens: a greenish yellow screen and a slightly yellow screen.
The slightly yellow screen has a slightly lower brightness.
I wonder if there really is a white screen.
And here is another one. I have posted it earlier in this thread but it is buried so far behind that its lost.
My yellow iPhone 12 Pro on the left (that I returned), the better 12 pro in store on the right.
All settings identical, true tone off, auto brightness off, night shift off, no color filter.
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I’ll be able to go back to the apple store to take more pictures, but what’s the point? The seller and I had done other tests and the result was always the same. Accept the truth and acknowledge that apple failed.