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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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They stopped the production of the 12 pro and the 12 pro max, but they continue to produce and sell the 12 and 12 mini
Picked up my 13 pro today, happy to report the screen is superbly calibrated. I would put it between the 11 pro and 12 pro. Makes the 11 look greenish? to my eyes, and the 12 look yellow. Nice display, a keeper 
I’m an idiot. I was outside testing. Inside it’s still yellow with True Tone on. I’ll keep it off for sure. Great screen this year for me though.
13 Pro checking in. Still relatively warm for me, but… acceptable. Pretty damn similar to the 12 Pro I returned, but I’m not about to play that game again and I don’t believe the variance is so high unit-to-unit that it would matter. They definitely just calibrate warmer than they used to.
I will add that I see a couple of minor issues for us OCD folks to potentially latch onto though (even though I’ll try and ignore them as best I can, myself.)
For one, I can absolutely see the refresh rate changing during the slowdown of a strong inertial scroll. There's a very minor but noticeable "hitch" when it changes to 60, and then another at each interval down. You have to be looking for it, but it's there. Might try and record it in slow-mo on another iPhone lol.
two- the gaps between the front glass and chassis are noooooot quite symmetrical on either side. My old 12 Pro had this, and my friend’s new 13 PM had this as well so we’re three for three. It’s definitely within manufacturing tolerance, likely to give just a tad bit of wiggle room for the glass panel for drop resistance.
That’s life I guess. Time to set this forum down and go back to enjoying my new phone, though.
I will add that I see a couple of minor issues for us OCD folks to potentially latch onto though (even though I’ll try and ignore them as best I can, myself.)
For one, I can absolutely see the refresh rate changing during the slowdown of a strong inertial scroll. There's a very minor but noticeable "hitch" when it changes to 60, and then another at each interval down. You have to be looking for it, but it's there. Might try and record it in slow-mo on another iPhone lol.
two- the gaps between the front glass and chassis are noooooot quite symmetrical on either side. My old 12 Pro had this, and my friend’s new 13 PM had this as well so we’re three for three. It’s definitely within manufacturing tolerance, likely to give just a tad bit of wiggle room for the glass panel for drop resistance.
That’s life I guess. Time to set this forum down and go back to enjoying my new phone, though.
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Me neither. It’s all good. I’m even loving the yellow True Tone. It’s really appeasing to my eyes at night.
Here he is, finally take the gloves off 😂 can’t get use to True Tone, post some pics of your phone if you can, these silver iPhones are rare to see in the wild on macrumors. 😂
I’ll do it on in the other thread. Got cut short when I saw a ding in my stainless steel frame out of the box. And that was even whilst wearing cotton gloves for the unboxing. 🤣
Yes it’s really common with oleds at lowest brightness level. It’s really the only defect I’ve found so far.
I’ve always felt like OLED color temp shifts in general with brightness level. It’s always looked slightly warmer at low brightness to me.
Part of the problem with this entire situation is that the human brain is extremely fickle and prone to biases. Even the young and spry can’t entirely trust their senses to be accurate. I’m certain many folks complaining of yellow displays are constantly looking at other non-calibrated screens (computer monitors, TVs) with wildly varying white points, that accentuates any existing predisposition they might have when looking at their iPhones.
To be clear, I say this is someone who follows this issue closely every year and experience it myself. I also have been medicated for OCD my entire life, and so I’m not trying get down on anyone who is genuinely stressed by this. I’m right there with you all.
Given the amount of pro features the pro phones have gotten, it would be really cool to see them implement full user side calibration of the displays. A lot of photographers even like to edit on their phones because of the tactile, responsive nature of moving sliders on a small display. They would really love to be able to calibrate to an exact D65 I’m sure.
Part of the problem with this entire situation is that the human brain is extremely fickle and prone to biases. Even the young and spry can’t entirely trust their senses to be accurate. I’m certain many folks complaining of yellow displays are constantly looking at other non-calibrated screens (computer monitors, TVs) with wildly varying white points, that accentuates any existing predisposition they might have when looking at their iPhones.
To be clear, I say this is someone who follows this issue closely every year and experience it myself. I also have been medicated for OCD my entire life, and so I’m not trying get down on anyone who is genuinely stressed by this. I’m right there with you all.
Given the amount of pro features the pro phones have gotten, it would be really cool to see them implement full user side calibration of the displays. A lot of photographers even like to edit on their phones because of the tactile, responsive nature of moving sliders on a small display. They would really love to be able to calibrate to an exact D65 I’m sure.
It looks worse on the top half of the screen and more intense where the processor is located.
That’s amazing. Any reason you don’t have the 120hz on? I just took my phone off the charger around 5:45am, I’m going to use it like normal and see if it’s better than my 12 Pro was but I’m keeping the High refresh rate on.
My bad, I do have 120hz turned on, can’t use the phone without it, it’s amazing, corrected my post.
It’ll definitely be better than your 12 pro max, I had the same phone as well. 👌
The battery on this device is reminding me of a Samsung device I once owned that has a 7000mAh battery 😂 it’s just iMazing darling. 😀
Not seeing a dramatic difference in brightness or color temperature here, even factoring in the 12 pro max has a tempered screen protector installed. Didnt to my eyes either beyond what the camera is picking up.
auto brightness off for both, both iOS 15.
if anything 12PM might've been a hair brighter to my eyes (in the pic it looks like 12PM is quite a bit brighter but they were close)
Maybe the AT&T employee's 12PM is a good one
Also looks like the 13PM has more flicker since its picking up those wavy lines whereas doesn't on the 12PM. Eye fatigue could be a concern for some
auto brightness off for both, both iOS 15.
if anything 12PM might've been a hair brighter to my eyes (in the pic it looks like 12PM is quite a bit brighter but they were close)
Maybe the AT&T employee's 12PM is a good one
Also looks like the 13PM has more flicker since its picking up those wavy lines whereas doesn't on the 12PM. Eye fatigue could be a concern for some
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Not sure that test really helps, as the yellow tint was usually referred to as an “aggressive True Tone” issue.
Across the eight iPhone 12s that I tested over the past year (I’m done and happy with a new XS Max) the yellow screen was an issue w:
True Tone: on
Auto-Brightness: on
If A-B was off, color filter correction and manually increased brightness would be enough for me. If TT was off, wouldn’t find it too yellow anyway.
I think it would be great if folks with their new iPhone 13 could also report their thoughts with both TT and A-B on.
lol, definitely last 2 days with moderate use, not sure if I'm noticing a bit of red tint at low brightness. 🤔 hmmm.
Maybe I'm tripping, really hate oled, hope they switch to micro oled once it's ready.
also a lot more colour shift when moving my phone, compared to my 12 pro max.
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Was the same with S21U. Color shift, slight angle like even 4 degrees. Would cause it, same generation panels I guess.