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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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A success story for those interested:
launch day 12 Pro Max (Gold, 256), yellow screen, low contrast, raised blacks
was able to start return until 8th January, so thought I’d wait until then and order another one.
new one arrived yesterday, same config, week 50, serial G0ND
it’s like a yellow sticker had been peeled off the screen. Brighter, higher contrast and reduced yellow screen. Raised blacks issue also barely present, only very briefly and faintly on the boot screen.
only issue with this phone is minor imperfections on the gold edges (a few dots where the coating was scratched)
summary: phone with bad screen replaced with good screen
launch day 12 Pro Max (Gold, 256), yellow screen, low contrast, raised blacks
was able to start return until 8th January, so thought I’d wait until then and order another one.
new one arrived yesterday, same config, week 50, serial G0ND
it’s like a yellow sticker had been peeled off the screen. Brighter, higher contrast and reduced yellow screen. Raised blacks issue also barely present, only very briefly and faintly on the boot screen.
only issue with this phone is minor imperfections on the gold edges (a few dots where the coating was scratched)
summary: phone with bad screen replaced with good screen
Can you post a picture from 90 degree above and not from the side?
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This is not a success with even barely minor raised blacks.
And the reduced yellow screen is within factoy tolerance ...
And the reduced yellow screen is within factoy tolerance ...
This is not white this looks blueish in my opinion but I think it is the photo ...
For me screen uniform is more important than a slightly more yellow white.
What would do you choose if you have two phones?
The one with a little bit more yellow screen but perfect uniformity or the one with perfect white but bad uniformity, like pinkish at the bottom and greenish at the top.
For me screen uniform is more important than a slightly more yellow white.
What would do you choose if you have two phones?
The one with a little bit more yellow screen but perfect uniformity or the one with perfect white but bad uniformity, like pinkish at the bottom and greenish at the top.
My colorimeter arrived. All with true tone auto brightness night shift and whatever available. Measured at nights with lights turned off.
Not any scientific measurements, but just for comparison between my devices.
Not much needs to be say.. These are 12 minis. See that green bar sticked out at both minimum and maximum brightness?
Xs perfectly balanced, as all things should be
It's not the just color temperature it's the balance of the rgb when producing white, and the accuracy , see that ΔE?
Here's iPad Pro 11inch 2018
It's not people in this forum are crazy, it's the world, the world is crazy. The iPhone 12 mini before this one, all four iPhone 12 models at my local walmart, has the same tinted display as mine. I can't tell a single difference when matched the settings with all walmart iphone 12s. And can't tell a single difference side by side with both iPhone 12 minis too (I had a detailed lengthy long reply which I took pictures of actual pixels using a macro lens but it got removed., so whatever )
I don't know, is it me crazy to think the world is crazy just by accepting green as the new white and trash every apple products besides iPhone 12s. Maybe those people are right. iPhone 12s are perfect phones that have perfect displays with perfect whites. And in this perfect world there's no way white should be perfectly 1:1:1 of R:G:B
Okay so I started to think my iPhone 12 mini displays are trash...then I took a measurement of my Android Gaming phone (144Hz OLED), and....
Eh it's so trash...(I knew it's not that good just by using it) ...But I have to admit, I'm more sensitive to the abundance of green on iPhone 12 mini.) There's must be some science behind it.. which is probably true.. the abundance of green is more noticable. The abundance of Red / Blue kinda worked together and cancels each other out..
BTW if you wonder how color tint in accessibility settings work. Below is what I can achieve at the best.
I tweaked the color tint settings constantly checking my colorimeter. Things to note
1. Maximum brightness dropped to 421 from 658, that's not some little drop
2. Even I almost correct the white ( just the white, the actual color accuracy of other colors are probably worse by using the color tint) and one brightness(minimum in this case), it won't be the corrected in another brightness. (This is why factory calibrating of phone displays are so damn important..
Apple is not that apple anymore. This kind of quality is very...not apple compared to Apple. Now here's conspiracy theories.
1. The one who manufacture calibration equipment for Apple made some fundamental mistake, and they decide to go with it because it costs them less to keep than change.
2. Bad displays just cheaper to produce. Or lower tolerance. Green compared to white is more environmentally friendly and they just go for it.
3. They are doing social experience and brain wash under the guidance of aliens. Now they almost established green as the new white for Apple, what's next.
Not any scientific measurements, but just for comparison between my devices.
Not much needs to be say.. These are 12 minis. See that green bar sticked out at both minimum and maximum brightness?
Xs perfectly balanced, as all things should be
It's not the just color temperature it's the balance of the rgb when producing white, and the accuracy , see that ΔE?
Here's iPad Pro 11inch 2018
It's not people in this forum are crazy, it's the world, the world is crazy. The iPhone 12 mini before this one, all four iPhone 12 models at my local walmart, has the same tinted display as mine. I can't tell a single difference when matched the settings with all walmart iphone 12s. And can't tell a single difference side by side with both iPhone 12 minis too (I had a detailed lengthy long reply which I took pictures of actual pixels using a macro lens but it got removed., so whatever )
I don't know, is it me crazy to think the world is crazy just by accepting green as the new white and trash every apple products besides iPhone 12s. Maybe those people are right. iPhone 12s are perfect phones that have perfect displays with perfect whites. And in this perfect world there's no way white should be perfectly 1:1:1 of R:G:B
Okay so I started to think my iPhone 12 mini displays are trash...then I took a measurement of my Android Gaming phone (144Hz OLED), and....
Eh it's so trash...(I knew it's not that good just by using it) ...But I have to admit, I'm more sensitive to the abundance of green on iPhone 12 mini.) There's must be some science behind it.. which is probably true.. the abundance of green is more noticable. The abundance of Red / Blue kinda worked together and cancels each other out..
BTW if you wonder how color tint in accessibility settings work. Below is what I can achieve at the best.
I tweaked the color tint settings constantly checking my colorimeter. Things to note
1. Maximum brightness dropped to 421 from 658, that's not some little drop
2. Even I almost correct the white ( just the white, the actual color accuracy of other colors are probably worse by using the color tint) and one brightness(minimum in this case), it won't be the corrected in another brightness. (This is why factory calibrating of phone displays are so damn important..
Apple is not that apple anymore. This kind of quality is very...not apple compared to Apple. Now here's conspiracy theories.
1. The one who manufacture calibration equipment for Apple made some fundamental mistake, and they decide to go with it because it costs them less to keep than change.
2. Bad displays just cheaper to produce. Or lower tolerance. Green compared to white is more environmentally friendly and they just go for it.
3. They are doing social experience and brain wash under the guidance of aliens. Now they almost established green as the new white for Apple, what's next.
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Concusion there is no perfect display on any iPhone 12 ...
Live with it or sell the phone ...
Live with it or sell the phone ...
success as in a good screen, raised blacks on boot are towards the end of the boot where the screen goes from black to a bit lighter very slightly. I assume this is normal. on my old phone raised blacks were everywhere. with this one they have disappeared from general usage. the test yt video pure black as well.
that is the same thing I noticed it's not that yellow, for me is more like a green tint instead of yellow tint.
Yes I noticed the same. It is more green than yellow :/
But that was the same with 11 Pro Max ...
But that was the same with 11 Pro Max ...
All this important information should send to apple developers and engineers. Then they hopefully can create a fix!
Would it bother you to test the raised blacks please ? I’d like to know if another new Pro Max’s have it
Same thing, they told me the same thing again like what they told me again and again last year.
I have noticed that when I turn off True Tone the screen has a more bluish tint, on par with how my iPhone 6S+ LCD screen looks. Is it the case that the yellow tint issue occurs with True Tone off?
I'm really disappointed so I make a sheet in Word to post on reddit. You can share it wherever you want.
Edit: Reddit down, as I submit and refresh, cOulD It be APple
Edit: Reddit down, as I submit and refresh, cOulD It be APple
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I willl write apple support now
Oh sh** the chat is offline now in germany.
Are they online in the US?
Oh sh** the chat is offline now in germany.
Are they online in the US?
send it to apple and share the reddit link here as well please