If you mean the dark stripes moving diagonally over the screen, yeah that is the low frequency PWM (220-240Hz) of the display.
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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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so does that mean I have nothing to worry about? I only ask because my dads IPhone 12 did not do that under the same conditions.
Just adding my few cents, I first started off getting the full whiz wang bang iPhone 12 PM with 512 G storage. Super fast phone, great camera, but that SCREEN! I thought for sure that there was an issue with the True Tone settings and it was activated by accident. Decided to replace it for another one, with less storage and it was the absolutely the same. The warmth in the screen is maddening, and how Apple has set records with sales of the iPhone 12 is beyond belief.
Not entirely sure, but it appears to me that after updating my iPhone 12 mini to iOS 14.6 its whites look slightly cooler, more towards blue than yellow as before. Has anyone else noticed it?
Yeah, my seems a bit colder but it matched a white piece of paper almost exactly so maybe it is color accurate?
Alright. I did the calibration.
I used DisplayCal with an X-Rite i1 Display Pro Plus. Set the correction to OLED.
Auto-brightness off, True Tone off. Display brightness was about 50% (measured luminance was 112cd/m²).
The whitepoint is 6514K which is pretty good.
Either my display is not yellow, or my colorimeter is crap. But the "yellow" iPhone looks pretty similar to my calibrated monitor.
Sadly, I don't have the Xs anymore. Otherwise I would measure that for comparison.
These guys apparently also did a calibration test with more expensive measurement hardware. Me might just got too used to the "wrong" displays. I'm not talking about the few models that where piss yellow.
I used DisplayCal with an X-Rite i1 Display Pro Plus. Set the correction to OLED.
Auto-brightness off, True Tone off. Display brightness was about 50% (measured luminance was 112cd/m²).
The whitepoint is 6514K which is pretty good.
Either my display is not yellow, or my colorimeter is crap. But the "yellow" iPhone looks pretty similar to my calibrated monitor.
Sadly, I don't have the Xs anymore. Otherwise I would measure that for comparison.
These guys apparently also did a calibration test with more expensive measurement hardware. Me might just got too used to the "wrong" displays. I'm not talking about the few models that where piss yellow.
It looked yellowish with and without True Tone. But much more with True Tone. But the measurement is clear. That’s not yellow. It’s normal 6500K Color temp that most monitors are calibrated for (if calibrated at all).
Me to, with true tone it's yellow no dought but without it seems to perfect white or near perfect. I matched it with a piece of paper and it was similar
Sounds Like you got a good one. My monitor is calibrated to 6500k, but to match it side by side with the screen on the iPhone 12 I need to bring it to around the 5700k mark.
Hm.. that is weird. Maybe there really is a big issue with QC and consistency. Wouldn't surprise me if Apple cut some corners.
Sadly, iOS and also iPad OS do not let you calibrated the display. So you can only get it exchanged or repaired if it bothers you and hope to get a better one. If you do it with a colorimeter and DisplayCal (your display is calibrated so I assume you have one at hand), you easily have the numbers and can tell Apple that this is yellow and not white.
Sadly, iOS and also iPad OS do not let you calibrated the display. So you can only get it exchanged or repaired if it bothers you and hope to get a better one. If you do it with a colorimeter and DisplayCal (your display is calibrated so I assume you have one at hand), you easily have the numbers and can tell Apple that this is yellow and not white.
The Apple Authorized service center refused a long time back, even though the difference was visually different to every other IP12 screen in the store it was beyond the 7 day return window (even though it took 4 days to get a damn appointment!).
None of the staff contested that the screen wasn't yellow when compared. But Apple themselves said (senior manager) as it was "only a cosmetic issue" they would not issue a replacement or authorize a repair (they did not do any colorimeter test as they don't have one).
Unfortunately, no, I don't own a colorimeter myself. I got a loaner to calibrate my screens and it'll be a while before I can get hold of it again.
P*ss Yellow with it off. If TT or NS is turned on its like a red morning sky.
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if you go into a dark room, and enable night shift at the maximum slider and look at a google home page then turn night shift off does it turn piercing blue? with dark mode off.
I don't use night shift whatsoever. What difference is it going to make with a badly calibrated screen.
If you add and subtract colors it's going to change the temperature.
So it's not currently 6500k 😆 Although perfectly capable of doing it if it was calibrated correctly at the factory.
Right... lower color temp means more yellow, higher means more blueish.
If something, that's supposed to look white, is not white but yellow, the screen is not calibrated correctly. On a Phone of that price (iPhone 12 Pro) I expect the screen to be halfway accurately calibrated. Especially if they don't allow us to calibrate them ourselves.
If the screen is not near 6500K color temp, that's a defect in my eyes and should be repaired/replaced/whatever.
If something, that's supposed to look white, is not white but yellow, the screen is not calibrated correctly. On a Phone of that price (iPhone 12 Pro) I expect the screen to be halfway accurately calibrated. Especially if they don't allow us to calibrate them ourselves.
If the screen is not near 6500K color temp, that's a defect in my eyes and should be repaired/replaced/whatever.
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Anyone made a recent purchase of an iPhone 12 or 12 Pro Max?
I’m wondering if Apple has gone through 264 pages of this golden thread and actually listened to us?
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I’m wondering if Apple has gone through 264 pages of this golden thread and actually listened to us?
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I doubt it… I haven’t seen any of the big tech sites/blogs complaining about the screen in their tests. They tend to praise it. And everyone I’ve met IRL don’t care, even when I show them how yellow their screens are compared to my Mini (got a good one) 🤷♂️ They don’t even turn True Tone OFF…
I feel my mine is fixed, dont know how restored the phone from backup and it fixed the problem
What really peeved me off was that the manager at Apple admitted that there has been a large number of screens reported with yellow tints and to hold out for a OS update to resolve it. In the meantime to use the (not a fix) color overlay to cool the temperature to an acceptable level.
That's more or less typical apple behavior.
And: how shall they re-calibrate all the different screens with a software update? The screen doesn't have calibration hardware included. It cannot calibrate itself.
They have to accept that as a defect and replace or repair those units with wrong screen color. But you know.. that cuts into profits.