only reason I sold my 12 mini and went for the 11 pro which is still an amazing phone to date.
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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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Any screen experts out there that knows if iOS 14.5 public release fixes the yellow tint? For some reason my screen does look cool/blue white. Am I tripping?
It does not. Still has that same green/yellow tint compared to my calibrated devices.
At least the "raised black" with low brightness seems to have been fixed according to some users, but my phone never had that problem.
personally my iPhone no longer has a green tint .. the only green tint is when the volume bar appears on YouTube while watching a video but that is a problem with the YouTube application .. the yellow tint remains because it's Apple who calibrated iPhones like this ..
With 14.5, my iPhone is still slightly yellower than the Xs. But never had the green tint and never had raised blacks. It's just a bit more yellow. Hard to see when just using the device. But easy to see when compared to another iPhone or a Mac display.
14.5 hasn't fixed anything for me. my m1 Mac should have a much inferior screen to an OLED display that's twice the PPI and yet I have perfect whites on my laptop and everything on my iPhone 12 looks yellow in comparison. Even my girlfriend's XR looks better. It's such a shame spending that much money for a display from a company that goes out of its way to make things like True Tone, p3, etc. You'd think at this point, if there was a fix, it would've long been pushed out.
I wonder if Tim Cook noticed it on his iPhone? Wonder what he said himself LOL.
He’s either not observant or he has some minion rifling through a hundred off the factory line units staring at them obsessively in the dark to hand deliver to him the chosen one while he gets a massage while on a business meeting
he ain’t got time for that
14.5 ... still a piss yellow display compared to in-store phones.
It's not every phone that's affected. He would have got a good one.
Thats true. Its only MacRumors forum and Apple Support forum participants that are effected.
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Plenty of the same issue have been reported on the Apple Support forums as well.. and ignored
iPhone 12 yellow screen - Apple Community
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So if I leave here, my phone display goes back to normal?
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Raised blacks fixed with 14.5
Green tint still visible on low brightness …
Raised blacks fixed with 14.5
Green tint still visible on low brightness …
The other weird thing with my iPhone 12 is that with True Tone off, it goes all the way back to being much, much too blue tinted. You would think that a yellow tint compared to various other devices means that the screen must just be too yellow period, but no. The screen independent of True Tone is way too blue and with True Tone on, for some reason it's way too yellow. Something funny is going on there because you'd think that True Tone on a screen that's too blue tinted should result in a True Tone thats still a little too blue. I'm almost wondering if other screens are even more blue than mine and the reason that True Tone is so aggressive is to make up for those other screens, which gives too yellow an appearance for those of us that may have less blue screens.
Never mind. My screen is unquestionably more yellow than other screens with True Tone off. So I guess that’s really what the issue is. iPhone 12 screens are just calibrated to be too yellow in comparison and that also makes true tone look funny when applied to an already yellow screen. I went in to accessibility display options and turned on the colour tint hue 75 percent intensity zero and that seems to fix the yellow. I’ve actually got the screen even more white than other displays I’m comparing to, but I’m not sure if this also causes a loss in max brightness.
A bluer screen would be a non issue, as it could be "fixed" simply by enabling TT or NS (or both) but an already yellow screen can only get more yellow.
That's really the problem, there is no consistency amongst batches. Not all screens are horribly yellowish, all 12's are slightly warmer, sure, but not all have piss-yellow-whites.
The color overlay is not a fix, you are correct, you lose brightness as well as the colors will not be accurate across the entire range. Adding numbers to the slider would at least make it possible to achieve consistent inaccuracy.
Really the best fix would be for apple to include a color calibrator like on MacOS. These are being touted as photography orientated devices with some of the best screens ever and are simply being let down because of manufacturing inconstancies.
That's what makes no sense to me. Apple goes to more lengths than any manufacturer to say that their screens are professional, perfectly calibrated, will even change to a proper colour independent of lighting, etc. Why go to all that trouble, then cheap out on display calibration? Plenty of other mobile devices have inaccurate screens ranging from too cold, to too warm and nobody really cares because they're not advertised as being any different than that. I agree, apple just needs to include a way to calibrate the screens. That would solve every issue and make everyone happy. For now, I guess I'll just settle on the downsides of using a filter, it looks much, much closer to my MacBook with it on to the point that its negligible and I'll just try not to think about other colour inaccuracies.
And yet those other phones with crappy displays DO have a way to change their RGB levels and/or white balance manually in order to get decent color accuracy, even $100 Android phones out of the box!
Bonkers.
That's a great point too. At least on those phones, they let you fix it. If you're gonna make it "my way or the highway", you also better make sure that you've got it perfect.