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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!

I took another test against my Surface Pro (It was cooler/whiter), and my iPad (Also greyer, cooler).

I applied a minimum intensity color filter in accessibility and adjusted to my preference for white. When I toggle it on/off I can easily see a reddish/yellowish hue being added to the image.

Which is accurate? Preference? It is at least nice to use dark-mode in the OS and having the white text appear white. The caveat is that colors don't "pop" that much when adjusted.
 
I assume Apple would lose more money by paying their software team to fix this than they are losing on people returning their yellow phones.
 
I really doubt it is a software issue.
This is more likely a hardware QC and factory calibration thingy.

Also just found out today when I was using my polarized sunglasses, the screen colors looks messed up and I got instant nausea. Is this the PWM thing? Or is it my screen protector (clear tempered glass)? Never saw this with my previous OLED devices.
 
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macdogpro said:
I really doubt it is a software issue.
This is more likely a hardware QC and factory calibration thingy.

Also just found out today when I was using my polarized sunglasses, the screen colors looks messed up and I got instant nausea. Is this the PWM thing? Or is it my screen protector (clear tempered glass)? Never saw this with my previous OLED devices.
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Is the tempered glass screen protector for sure. This always happens with polarized glasses.
 
inigou said:
Is the tempered glass screen protector for sure. This always happens with polarized glasses.
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Darn it, it’s a 30 bucks tempered glass. It does looks and feels nice. But I always wear my polarized sunglasses when in my car. I guess it’s good so that I don’t use my phone while driving.
 
Some Apple fiends on YouTube are convinced this tint can be fixed with an iOS 14 update. Even when they review the new betas, there is always, "It doesn't look like the yellow tint issue is fixed yet with this release..."
 
I still think it’s something connected to auto brightness, they seem to have it wrong on the 12s. turn it off and the screen improves so much
 
What should be the timeline, where we can declare and agree anonymously that majority of the 12's have "yellow screen".
And waiting for the new batch or the software isn't going to fix anything.

The only solution to escape this "piss yellow ocean" is to go back to the 11 series or wait for the 13.

Guys, please do share your thoughts and let's decide a timeline.
 
inigou said:
Is the tempered glass screen protector for sure. This always happens with polarized glasses.
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It isn't tempered glass and it isn't polarized...this is entirely different and you can't make comparisons to other types of glass based on that. All you can do is suspect that maybe the new glass is the culprit.
 
socceryo3 said:
It isn't tempered glass and it isn't polarized...this is entirely different and you can't make comparisons to other types of glass based on that. All you can do is suspect that maybe the new glass is the culprit.
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The rainbow effect when looking at the display with polarized sunglasses is caused by the tempered glass, of course it is. No doubt. It happened to me for years. If you look at the same display, with the same polarized glasses and without the screen protector, the effect disappears.
 
inigou said:
The rainbow effect when looking at the display with polarized sunglasses is caused by the tempered glass, of course it is. No doubt. It happened to me for years. If you look at the same display, with the same polarized glasses and without the screen protector, the effect disappears.
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Polarized lenses aren't tempered glass. I think you need to look up what tempered glass is. As an example, your windshield is tempered glass and you don't see this effect while wearing polarized lenses while driving.
 
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Mochio said:
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.
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I noticed that too with two 12 Pro's we ordered. One is yellowish and dimmer but uniform hue while other is more greenish or even bluish very bright but poor uniformity (upper and lower half of the screen a bit different hue).
I don't mind warm tint at all if it is uniform across the screen.
 
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GomerBoy said:
Is True Tone supposed to make the screen yellower? Is that why we are testing with it turned off?
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It will make screen warmer than D65 if it is under warm lights, like at home most have 2700k bulbs, so TT does what it is supposed to do - make screen warmer because D65 will look too cool in warm lightning.
 
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GomerBoy said:
Is True Tone supposed to make the screen yellower? Is that why we are testing with it turned off?
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True Tone is supposed to match the white balance of the screen to the temperature of the ambient light, so it looks more natural than say, a cool blue screen but really warm-colored light in the room. To see the actual white balance of the screen this must be turned off.
 
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Kent viggo said:
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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Left on seems more uniform while right one show some uneven hue between upper and lower half of the screen.
 
socceryo3 said:
Polarized lenses aren't tempered glass. I think you need to look up what tempered glass is. As an example, your windshield is tempered glass and you don't see this effect while wearing polarized lenses while driving.
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Tempered glass screen protector looked at with polarized sunglasses, I mean. I don’t know what’s the cause and haven’t said it’s because is tempered. Just said is because the tempered glass screen protector that is causing the rainbow effect when looking at with polarized sunglasses. I think the explanation is very clear.
 
inigou said:
Tempered glass screen protector looked at with polarized sunglasses, I mean. I don’t know what’s the cause and haven’t said it’s because is tempered. Just said is because the tempered glass screen protector that is causing the rainbow effect when looking at with polarized sunglasses. I think the explanation is very clear.
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But the thing that you're talking about is the glass on the phone. That is neither tempered, polarized, or a screen protector. Saying that looking at a tempered glass screen protector with polarized lenses shows a rainbow effect and using that as evidence that the new glass on the iPhone 12s is clearly the issue makes no sense. It could be the glass but none of that is comparable.
 
socceryo3 said:
But the thing that you're talking about is the glass on the phone. That is neither tempered, polarized, or a screen protector. Saying that looking at a tempered glass screen protector with polarized lenses shows a rainbow effect and using that as evidence that the new glass on the iPhone 12s is clearly the issue makes no sense. It could be the glass but none of that is comparable.
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I’m referring all the time to the screen protector causing the issue, not the glass of the phone. You can check in past messages. I think there is a miss understanding buddy.
I omitted in one of the messages by error but you can read my first answer “Is the tempered glass screen protector for sure. This always happens with polarized glasses.”
 
inigou said:
I’m referring all the time to the screen protector causing the issue, not the glass of the phone. You can check in past messages. I think there is a miss understanding buddy.
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Ok, fine. But tempered glass itself does not cause the polarization effect. That's why your windshield doesn't do this. It's a known phenomenon that looking at LCD screens with polarized lenses can cause this effect. I don't know about OLED.
 
all iPhone 12 around me, from friends familiar etc, all have a yellow/green tint to it. And some of them like mine with uniformity on the screen(bottom of the screen where bottom icons are). The green tint is specially noticeable on grey color like google chrome on dark mode, settings etc... we can all agree that this is not under control and I don’t think this is something software can manage to get it fixed.
 
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