I send my phone to the store and I got it now, guess what. Yes I have my phone not a replacement they said me that apple is aware of that problem and will fix it.
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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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Even if all iPhones measured in the range of 6200-6400K, I would hardly suggest that to be yellow. That is a nice white point that is easier on the eyes and often gives a better representation of colors in a wide range of lighting conditions.
Honestly I don’t care about that yellow it’s the last thing I will care about, what I hate is the green tint in grey backgrounds and the non uniformity screen in terms of colors.
I agree that on LCD displays a colour temperature in that range would be perfectly fine.
You should look up metameric failure. OLED displays will already look off even if they’re calibrated correctly to 6500k. What a colorimeter measures will differ from what we actually see with our eyes. So two perfectly calibrated OLED and LCD’s will be visibly different from each other. OLED needs to be calibrated with an offset towards magenta to get them to visually match with an LCD. The name for this white balance offset is the Judd 1951 Modification if I’m correct.
From what I’ve seen, Apple accounted for this with the iPhone X which looks fine to my eyes and then stopped caring for every OLED iPhone since. Which I understand because the vast majority of users don’t notice or care. I do care which is why I switched back to an LCD iPhone (with a much better calibrated screen) and have no problem acknowledging I’m in a really tiny minority of anal retentive people.
guys anyway I have serious doubts that Apple will be able to solve the screen problem. every iPhone has different problems, some green, some red, some yellow, some yellow and green. how can Apple fix these problems with an update? they should be arranged one by one because they are all different. one thing i wonder is are we sure that there is no correlation between green and yellow tint, are they really two separate problems?
maybe, I'm not sure but could be. Apple has sent back my iPhone without any fix, saying that the issue, green tint yellow tint and those thing will be fixed in a new iOS update. I know they keep saying that since day 1. I will keep it and wait at least to 14.3.1 or 14.4. I have serious doubts about a software fix.
tha same happens to me. This display literally drive me crazy. Can’t find a solid point of evaluation so every time is different.
Same here. Really nice during the day and then sort of more yellow in the evening. have to say I have stopped worrying about it though and feel much better!
I tried that with no success (I mean stop worrying about it) cause the bottom half of my screen is sort of pinkish and its noticeable.
Interesting second paragraph reference Judd. Is that the reason on so called “good” panels my eyes notice a slight pink tinge with True Tone turned off and color filter turned off ?
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Thank you for providing this insight. I work with color a lot in my job but not on OLED screens, so as you suggested I just spent some time researching metameric failure. That's very interesting and explains some of the color inconsistencies I've lightly observed. For anyone else interested in a good read, here's a link:
Perceptual Colour Matching
Perceptual Colour Match for Metameric Failure
www.lightspace.lightillusion.com
Thanks again!
In one case, it would be possible to calibrate the screen if in iOS there was an option to modify rgb as in tv, right?Thank you for providing this insight. I work with color a lot in my job but not on OLED screens, so as you suggested I just spent some time researching metameric failure. That's very interesting and explains some of the color inconsistencies I've lightly observed. For anyone else interested in a good read, here's a link:
Perceptual Colour Matching
Perceptual Colour Match for Metameric Failure
Thanks again!
Funny you should mention this. A few years ago Samsung had many complaints about their oled displays being pink or reddish looking. They pushed out an update that added a function for users to adjust Red green and blue levels that were not present before.
Huawei was always one step ahead of the game. Their color adjustment is a circle with infinite levels of user adjustment. Unlike the IOS color filter it doesn’t diminish brightness levels when activated.
Yes Apple should add this. Anyway I will try again to get a replacement cause I hate that green coming from the top of the notch and sides of the screen like you can see in this photos.
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I found the green to be less aggressive on my new replacement device. Still there but not a nuisance. The brand new replacement also had a very fine scratch on the top gold band area as well as a slight discoloration on one corner, almost as if the gold in that corner was worn out. I embraced it , since the green tint was now almost diminished.
On my iPhone 12, there’s a definite yellow tint in comparison to my old XR, but that looks too blue as well. Both seem to have an incorrect white point compared to my very old MacBook Pro. I also have greys looking too green. I actually don’t even care so much about those issues, they’re not severe on my device and in isolation they don’t bother me at all. My bigger concern is that with a black background, I experience a halo around some white text. For example, on the notes app there is raised blacks around the yellow text. Is that part of the issue everyone else is having? What would that be characterized as? It’s really the only issue I have with the screen.
Totally unacceptable. Don’t know how Apple thinks it’s okay to sell new devices that are like this.
That’s normal I mean I think it’s the light diffusing on the glass
Okay, now that makes a lot of sense, but if that’s the case is this only an issue with oled displays because any of the LED displays I own doesn’t have this issue or my XR does but it’s drastically less noticeable. Maybe that’s because it can’t do true black? This is my first OLED so I’m new to this stuff.
pardon man, what are you referring too? That’s the exact description of my panel. Slightly pink tinge with tt off and cf off.
better if compared to my second unit that does not have that tinge.
the tinge provide also a deeper / reddish dark in the grey menu, instead of dull dark of the other panel.
Download Plex dash app and enter the app without login and see if there is any green tint on edges or notch.
Take with some lights, so you can an we can see it better, but anyway I assume it’s okay. Mine shows a green tint around the screen
You can see it here, the one with yellow case is my grilfriend iPhone 12 and the one of the blue case is mine.
