Your G9N looks rather uniform. Not noticeable darker half of the picture or different tint seen in G9P (at least in all I have seen).
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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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I agree it is pretty uniform, But the warm colour is fairly strong. Perhaps I would get used to it I don't know.
I tried to photograph it but I cant seem to get a good one.
I use my iPhone in dark mode and even the fact that is more grey is an issue.
Applying the colour filter gets it closer to what I would want but obviously this is not a fix.
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I would be very happy with display like that. I have already exchanged several units all with dark bottom and uneven tint, that is something I cannot ignore. For some reason I keep getting G9P's.
I unfortunately don't have any calibration gear (either does the Mac service centre) so I can only eyeball vs a calibrated monitor side by side. Adjusting the White point of the monitor to mirror the iPhone Colors and that's what the temp is approximately.
Yes the Color difference compared of the XR (and other displays) is certainly more drastic than the other 12's that we compared to. (xr is far colder anyhow). No one in the service centre however was disagreeing though that our 12 is much warmer than the other 12's that we compared it to on the day.
Should have an answer on how they are going to proceed in the next day or so.
I would be very happy with display like that. I have already exchanged several units all with dark bottom and uneven tint, that is something I cannot ignore. For some reason I keep getting G9P's.
Thanks for all your advice anyway, I hope you are able to get one with a decent screen even if it is warm.
I'm not sure what part of the world you are from but this phone came from a new batch from John Lewis here in the UK.
I'm still undecided personally, but probably still more likely to return than not, I just cant get used the warm white & grey blacks.
I turned off the color filters after using them for a few weeks and... it’s not nearly as yellow as it used to be! As I said early on in the thread, OLED changes over time. Whites actually don’t look yellow now and the darks don’t look green. I can use my iPad and then my iPhone and it’s not jarring anymore. It’s clearly not a case of my eyes ”getting used to it” because I’ve been using the color filters. Glad I didn’t get too caught up in exchanges (though I did try once).
maybe some changes with ios 14.4 in true tone.
I noticed that in daylight the iphone is more whiters than my previous test.
the “whiter” panel should be noticeable with the tt turned on also, am I wrong?
as said before, I' m really surprised by the quality panel rank that came from nowhere.
G9P G9N G9Q. Be careful about thisranking.
the 3 iphone 12 pro max i had was G9N.
very happy when i noticed this, as they should had a good panel.
Strangely all had bad uniformity, smoothy text, poor max brithness, green/blue angle shift (with different degrees) and yellow tint.
When i received my 12 pro, i immediatly see the difference.
Uniformity is near to perfect and brithness is at less 10 or 15 % higher at max.
Green/blue Shift tint is really really less remarkable.
Only difference : the yellow of the white lol is looking more pissed yellow than strange yellow green of the max.
I think white point is not at the same calibration point between the 2 models as i had expected from dxo mark results.
Nevertheless the result with color filter is really good in comparison with what i could achive with the 12 pro max.
Maybe due to the higher brithness.
I confirmed my observation with a 12 pro max like my 12 built at same date but with G9N panel again.
Will try to do a video to show you in the week at office.
So now i could give you my Alphabetical order ranking for quality panel.
G9N is poor
G9P is better
G9Q is best (never seen this panel).
It seems that green tint on black is not a panel number issue, it can concerns all these panels.
I never had it.
It's strange that lot of people have G9N and so the the best panel in " the original theory",
whereas i can really tel you that G9P is for me really better (it's not just better, it's really something else).
I noticed that someone on the forum have made exactly the same observations between to iphone 12,
but i don't rember the page.
G9P G9N G9Q. Be careful about thisranking.
the 3 iphone 12 pro max i had was G9N.
very happy when i noticed this, as they should had a good panel.
Strangely all had bad uniformity, smoothy text, poor max brithness, green/blue angle shift (with different degrees) and yellow tint.
When i received my 12 pro, i immediatly see the difference.
Uniformity is near to perfect and brithness is at less 10 or 15 % higher at max.
Green/blue Shift tint is really really less remarkable.
Only difference : the yellow of the white lol is looking more pissed yellow than strange yellow green of the max.
I think white point is not at the same calibration point between the 2 models as i had expected from dxo mark results.
Nevertheless the result with color filter is really good in comparison with what i could achive with the 12 pro max.
Maybe due to the higher brithness.
I confirmed my observation with a 12 pro max like my 12 built at same date but with G9N panel again.
Will try to do a video to show you in the week at office.
So now i could give you my Alphabetical order ranking for quality panel.
G9N is poor
G9P is better
G9Q is best (never seen this panel).
It seems that green tint on black is not a panel number issue, it can concerns all these panels.
I never had it.
It's strange that lot of people have G9N and so the the best panel in " the original theory",
whereas i can really tel you that G9P is for me really better (it's not just better, it's really something else).
I noticed that someone on the forum have made exactly the same observations between to iphone 12,
but i don't rember the page.
I posted few pages back.
I have the 12PM with G9Q panel and is perfectly even and white.
Also no raised blacks issues.
The iPhone is a week 51 with G0NDW serial.
I had the 12PM with G9N and was terrible, uneven, yellow, raised blacks and image retention. (was pre-order one)
I compared them side by side before I sent the old one back.
The old one was F2LD serial week 41.
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Okay so my screen is G0N and was manufactured in the 51st week, this is my second iPhone 12 Pro max after returning the first one (that was a day 1 model). Here is my situation:
- screen is definitely yellow AND UNEVEN compared to my previous iPhone X
- green colors where grey should be at low brightness (visible at night, thats when I use my iPhone mostly)
My main concern is the fact that the colors are uneven; I can notice this easily at night when I can see the green colors where the grey colors should be (so at low brightness in a dark room), it is very visible that the bottom half of the iPhone is 'lighter' and the upper half is 'darker' (the bottom half is more greenish than the upper half)..
Okay, but everything should be fine during day then correct?
Well, the part of the screen that has the green hue at night time (so at low brightness when viewing grey images, like in the settings app), during day time the same part (when viewing white images) has a more yellow shade than the bottom half.. However, only noticeable if I put two finger directly in the middle of the screen cutting the upper half from the bottom half ..
So
- screen is more green on one side of the screen on dark images (noticeable at low brightness)
- screen is more yellow on one side of the screen on white images (noticeable if I put two fingers in the middle)
If the screen was uniformly yellow or green I would have minded less, but it being uneven is easily noticeable and reminds me of this issue being present constantly ..
I will not go through another replacement, so my question is ..is this really solvable through an update? I do not remember these issues on the previous iPhone that I returned, however I wasn't actively looking for these things and secondly it had other issues such as flickering while watching a black screen youtube video and the blacks were almost never pure blacks , but this new unit the flickering issue has stopped and the raised blacks are 'occasional' so much better from that point of view.
I can live fine and overlook the problems I'm seeing on my iPhone regarding the uneven yellow/green tone but I mean, this device is worth so much ..do I really have to just accept it and not expect absolute perfection? Of course there can be some degree of tolerance, but I mean really?
I know iPhone 11s had the green tint issue, and that was indeed fixed with an update (last year, so it took them some time), and since I believe that my green tone issue (on grey images) and the more yellow tone issue (on white images) are directly correlated, hence why it is the same half (upper) of the screen that both tones are visible, making the overall screen uneven ..if one issue is fixed, the other should be fixed too I think ..please correct if I'm wrong
do you think an update will fix this or should I stop expecting it and just accept it?
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This is pretty much the same issue I've been having with my 6.1" Pro. I have bought a new one many times again with the same issue. Mine is not yellow in whites, but there is tint and brightness difference between upper and lower half of the screen. I will try couple more and then give up I think because for some reason I keep getting new ones with G9P screen every time and also manufacturing date is still from early December even for the new orders.
I'm afraid uniformity is hardware thing. At least in OLED TV's different tint between screen sides is permanent condition and only new panel works there. Not sure about iPhone but I'm not counting on update helping it. It surely could fix white balance and raised black level, it should be not an big issue to adjust.
Well, as far as I can tell considering what we know of similar problems from the iPhone 11 and other manufacturers, MAYBE the green tint (and raised blacks) Problem can be fixed via software update but I don’t think there’s much of a chance that an unevenness within the screen itself can be addressed via software. If that if bothering you in daily use I would swap the phone once more.
guys I went to a shop in my area and I compared my iphone with the ones on display. mine has much less bright colors, the frames of the watch application do not have deep blacks in mine, while in the exposed ones they do. after calling apple, they told me that it's normal because every iphone has different chrome plating, i said no because in my country black is black and yellowish black is another color anyway lost battle. if I weren't tied to this ecosystem I would have sold it
But since in my case the warmer tone in yellow (on white background) is exactly where I see the darker tone in green (on grey backgrounds), wouldn’t fixing the green issue automatically fix the warmer tone all together and fix the unevenness?
But I mean in my case the dark green shows where I see the more yellow screen as I explained above, if they fix one the other issue could disappear shouldn’t it? Again the unevenness is there but is due to one part being warmer hence the green tone being different all around the screen on dark images, and that is the case for all the pics I’ve seen in this thread, the green tone was never uniformly distributed
Only thing is that in my case I am associating with darker yellow tones on white images, where I see darker green tones on dark images