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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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I doubt it is not so easy to fix uneven tint. You cannot just apply white balance correction table, you have to make something pixel by pixel thing but even then since all the screens are not equally non-uniform, I don't think it is possible. Unless there is some error in the way panels are driven causing that, then I guess it would be remotely possible. But since we have another 12 Pro here with G9N screen and it is perfectly uniform, I doubt it is not that easy. I just hope I could find another one with G9N too, since the good one is not my phone.
I don’t use TT. Never have. It’s always the first thing it turn off when I get a new phone lol.
I want to attach some images to show you that the issue is not really visible under naked eye, but just stare for a few seconds and I can tell that the upper half is warmer.. problem is Im struggling to catch this under a camera, I can compare it to the white screen of the iPhone 11 but for whatever reason when a picture is taken the iPhone 11 seems more yellow , this is not true in real life though as my 12 pro max is definitely more yellow in reality ..
any suggestions on how to take these pictures? (brightness level, etc...) , I want to show you guys the green tint that is uneven as well but cameras are unable to catch it..
Same here but I'm used to find issues like this and I see it pretty easily.
I posted photos of my phone in this thread, take a look at them https://forums.macrumors.com/thread....2262691/page-191?post=29427767#post-29427767
Yes exactly, but in my case the upper half is warmer when viewing white images and the lower half is lighter..
Also, in dark mode at low brightness when viewing grey images (or just by going to the settings app) I can see the upper half is darker whereas the bottom half is a lighter shade of green..
So my point being is that upper half is warmer/darker than the bottom half, whether that’s tested via white images or grey images ..
Is this fixable with an update? All images I’ve seen here have uneven green tones..
P.S.
I’ve been testing with pure solid white images for some time now , often 30 mins a day at 100% brightness .. I’m not ruining my oled panel, am I? Because I feel like the overall brightness has decreased, and the screen seems even more yellow but that could be just me overthinking so it might be a placebo effect lol
So I got an exchange on my iPhone 12 mini and the exchange was the exact same manufacture week/date. Screen still looks yellowish. Applying the color filter 'fix' makes whites look more even, is there any downside to using color filters and then adjusting as needed?
Yes, your screen won’t be as bright as before and color accuracy goes out the window.
Give it a week and you’ll get use to the way apple has calibrated the displays on the 12 series, also the green tint update which should be arriving soon, might fix some of the issues.
I’ve honestly gotten use to the screen on my 12 pro max, your eyes will adapt as well.
It's kinda difficult to get used to when I put my redmi note 8 pro next to it which has much whiter whites and much more popping colors in comparison considering it's an IPS display. The iPhone looks duller in comparison. Are they all like this? Has anyone here got a perfectly white screen
A few weeks in using my 12 PM everyday it does sometimes seem quite 'warm' when compared to other devices, or maybe used to, but today, for example, it seems just the same as my IMAC. Weird but it does seem to get less warm over time - at least that seems to be my experience.
For reference-
I use an older iPhone with Night Mode set to mid way all the time. It's never turned off. It definitely looks yellower than a non altered display when comparing the two side by side, but when I use it all by itself- not comparing it to anything, it looks normal and good and "perfect" to me.
Human eyesight adjusts to wide ranges of hues naturally.
I use an older iPhone with Night Mode set to mid way all the time. It's never turned off. It definitely looks yellower than a non altered display when comparing the two side by side, but when I use it all by itself- not comparing it to anything, it looks normal and good and "perfect" to me.
Human eyesight adjusts to wide ranges of hues naturally.
I have truetone on and also color filter enabled. Im happy even with the screen not being as overly bright, hell I even have Reduce White point set to 37%. Ive always done the latter.
Great, works for you.
That doesn't mean its right though. That caters to the people who like their photos to look like they just came out of a bronzing booth rather than the ones who want a neutral image on the screen that actually looks like the subject would under normal conditions.
Some of us want whites to actually look .... well, white!
That's the problem, turning off TT and NS doesn't make it much better - its still far too yellow.
I wish you all the best in your endeavors in locating a pure white panel. I’d hazard a guess it’ll be a long a treacherous journey unfortunately.
I just watched this. He addresses it, but also kind of dismisses it as normal apple display calibration on the new models.
Correct, so there is no need to keep playing the iPhone screen lottery by returning 20 phones. 😂
Which anyone could have figured out, oh I don’t know, maybe 5000 posts and a few months ago. 🤣
I was bothered by the warm/yellow display before but I kinda like it now. I think my eyes had already adjusted to the new display. What bothers me now are the marks/dirt that I can’t seem to remove on the camera rings 😂
I'd be happy enough with a panel thats got the same whites as every other iphone 12 we've compared against.
And yet just using the word "calibration" would seem to indicate that displays should have reasonably uniform representation of color across the same phone model side by side. Not a mixed bag of this 12 display is whiter, this one is greener, this one is yellower etc.
If you bought two identical $500 monitors, and put them side by side on your desk and one looked completely different to the other with no means of calibrating them to look the same. Would you be happy to keep both?
Just got the 12 Pro, I immediately compared the white balance to my older IPS devices but fortunately there's not much of a difference with TT off. Maybe it's a little bit warmer, but it's not very noticeable. I was lucky I guess...
