The screen on my 14 Pro Max is brighter, cleaner and just looks better than my 15 Pro Max 
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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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My 15 pro max isn’t as bright as 14 pro max, even with the same screens they are not the same, also 15 pro max is more yellow tinted
I have a 14 Pro Max and a 15 Pro. They both have white, even screens. The 15 Pro is slightly brighter. Compared side by side, the 14 Pro Max screen has a slightly bluer white screen. The white screen on the 15 Pro looks a little more solid if that makes any sense. I don't have True Tone or auto brightness on either phone.
I'm an every year upgrader as is my wife, and several of my friends, and I have yet to see the screen issue on any of our phones.
The lifespan is about 30,000 hours, so no you won't see a shift in 1 year. With 6 hours a day of onscreen time that's still 13.5 years. You're not seeing a shift in just 1 year.
They didn’t claim people would be posting experiences with dead screens next year, only aged screens.
Who cares if total lifespan is 30,000 hours? When do the first perceptible signs of aging occur?
just found this thread and I've got the issue with a brand new old stock iPhone 13 Mini.
Compared to my 12 Pro, it's dim and yellow it's just uncomfortable to use. Just came back from the Apple Store and the dudes at the genius bar confirmed the difference and even unboxed another 13 Mini to compare its display, it was way brighter and pure white than mine. They told me they can repair its screen but only once, as it is basically screen lottery. Here is the comparison. 13 Mini on the left, 12 Pro on the right. Night shift and true tone off on both phones.
Compared to my 12 Pro, it's dim and yellow it's just uncomfortable to use. Just came back from the Apple Store and the dudes at the genius bar confirmed the difference and even unboxed another 13 Mini to compare its display, it was way brighter and pure white than mine. They told me they can repair its screen but only once, as it is basically screen lottery. Here is the comparison. 13 Mini on the left, 12 Pro on the right. Night shift and true tone off on both phones.
That's a bad screen for sure. I was lucky to get a new Mini 13 from an Apple Store right before it was discontinued and it has a perfect white, even screen. Apple should replace yours if it was purchased from Apple, otherwise I guess your only choice is a screen replacement and hope for the best. Good luck!
I just purchased and received today an iPhone 13 from Best Buy and I noticed my screen has a warm tint to it, although nowhere as bad as the one on the left. So I added a little bit of blue (color filter) to the white.
So I went off the OG posters recommendation and turned off the color filter. That made the screen a little brighter but brought back the slightly warm look to the screen. I turned off True Tone and set the brightness to 100% and the screen looks more like the one on the right. I have a 6th and 9th gen iPad's with similar displays as my iPhone 13.
Why is this even a thread much less still going? If the screen is bad out of the box it's a manufacturing defect and you exchange it for a new one.
I found this thread helpful and i'm glad it's still alive.
Overdramatic much?!
Apples dumping low grade panels on unsuspecting consumers.... 🤣
1) Manufacturing defects do happen, there's literally a warranty process for manufacturing issues.
2) Despite quality controls bad products do get out to customers. When I was a QA manager I could attest to this. It's cost prohibitive to design controls that catch every single defect. Again see point 1.
3) I've had literally every single iPhone and I work in a facility that refurbs tech products. I the thousands of devices I personally look at every single year I can honestly say I've very rarely have seen this issue, and when we do it goes back for a new screen. The incident rate of this is well within acceptable quality assurance standards.
This should be retitled to "anti-Apple consumers who knows ZERO about manufacturing once again take a swipe at Apple for dumb reasons."
I decided to order a Starlight iPhone 13 and I can immediately tell a difference in the screen between the iPhone 13 (blue) I purchased from BB and the Starlight I ordered from Apple. The Starlight iPhone has a brighter screen and looked less warm even with True Tone enabled. I disabled True Tone and the panel had a much cooler tint to it and is a brighter panel vs the phone I got from BB.
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Every year… I was just wondering how long it would take after release before this started up again!!! To start it 2 days before the phone is released is quite impressive 🙄😂
It’s the same Apple haters…just like the whole “nothings changed…” garbage.
Yeah the design may be the same but there were changes. Not to mention we’re pretty much at peak smartphone. I’m not really sure what people expect at this point. You want a triangle shaped phone? There’s only soo much you can do with a candy bar style phone. It’s not like any other manufacturers are radically redefining their designs either.
