iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!

[jimmy_uk]

"On Reddit, multiple iPhone 16 Pro users have also discussed similar yellow tint or temperature imbalance woes affecting the phone’s OLED screen. A handful of users have reported an off-axis color shift, which can also give a green-ish tint to the screen."

This has always been the case with OLED phones, and they look awful. It's strange that it's taken this long to make it into a mainstream article.

 

[iphonehype]

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.

but nothing has changed on the 16 Pro, you have a button 😁and yellow screen issue

 

[mabaker]

"On Reddit, multiple iPhone 16 Pro users have also discussed similar yellow tint or temperature imbalance woes affecting the phone’s OLED screen. A handful of users have reported an off-axis color shift, which can also give a green-ish tint to the screen."

This has always been the case with OLED phones, and they look awful. It's strange that it's taken this long to make it into a mainstream article.

It's the fact that Apple really doesn't care for what users think or want in the end.

 

[thatJohann]

WE ARE VINDICATED

Some iPhone 16 Pro units are plagued by a yellow display issue

There are multiple reports of iPhone 16 Pro owners running into a yellow tint issue on the screen, and it seems Apple Support hasn't been particularly helpful.

www.digitaltrends.com

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Friggin finally the media covers this. Can’t believe it’s taken so long.

 

[samven582]

Friggin finally the media covers this. Can’t believe it’s taken so long.

apple doesn't care. There cameras have dust issues as well

 

[Fred Zed]

Been like this for years ever since OLED panels were introduced on iPhones. Nothing new here. Only new thing for me is, why the technology hasn’t improved over the generations of OLED panels. Still a lottery. Too yellow, too much magenta , too much green in dark, none uniform panels , off axis issue… garbage quality . Pay more for less. That’s the new world order for most things.

 

[LotsOfBees]

Not looking good for the SE 4 with a sub$25 oled panel

The entry-level device will sport a 6.1" AMOLED and it was suggested that Apple's target price for this display is $25 - which was too low for Samsung Display that decided not to continue with its discussions with Apple for the supply of these panels. It will be interesting to see whether these new quality issues also effect the supply of panels to the iphone SE 4.

Reports suggest quality issues at BOE may shift iPhone OLED orders to Samsung Display and LG Display | OLED-Info

Sources in Korea suggest that BOE struggles with supplying AMOLED panels to Apple's iPhone, and Apple may switch some of its orders to LG Display and Samsung Display.BOE is supplying LTPS AMOLED displays to Apple's iPhone 14, 15 and 16 devices, but the company faces quality issues and Apple has...

www.oled-info.com

 

[thadoggfather]

Not looking good for the SE 4 with a sub$25 oled panel

The entry-level device will sport a 6.1" AMOLED and it was suggested that Apple's target price for this display is $25 - which was too low for Samsung Display that decided not to continue with its discussions with Apple for the supply of these panels. It will be interesting to see whether these new quality issues also effect the supply of panels to the iphone SE 4.

Reports suggest quality issues at BOE may shift iPhone OLED orders to Samsung Display and LG Display | OLED-Info

Sources in Korea suggest that BOE struggles with supplying AMOLED panels to Apple's iPhone, and Apple may switch some of its orders to LG Display and Samsung Display.BOE is supplying LTPS AMOLED displays to Apple's iPhone 14, 15 and 16 devices, but the company faces quality issues and Apple has...

www.oled-info.com

I wonder if we’ll get se4 this week now. Thought if it would’ve come it would’ve been today.

 

[OUsooner08]

but nothing has changed on the 16 Pro, you have a button 😁and yellow screen issue

Weird both my wife and I have iPhone 16s and don’t have issues.

There is a defect rate in manufacturing, issues do happen in mass production. I’m not sure why people act like it’s a big deal…

 

[OUsooner08]

Friggin finally the media covers this. Can’t believe it’s taken so long.

You mean reporting on an issue that is most likely within a standard defect tolerance…yawn.

 

[LotsOfBees]

You mean reporting on an issue that is most likely within a standard defect tolerance…yawn.

Apple was forced to switch due to industry pressure. But enjoy your manufacturing tolerance I guess

OLED displays? They're 'awful,' says Apple's CEO

Tim Cook says you can't trust the color accuracy of OLED displays, and he touts the Retina Display as a superior experience.

www.cnet.com

 

[OUsooner08]

Apple was forced to switch due to industry pressure. But enjoy your manufacturing tolerance I guess

OLED displays? They're 'awful,' says Apple's CEO

Tim Cook says you can't trust the color accuracy of OLED displays, and he touts the Retina Display as a superior experience.

www.cnet.com

An article from 12 years ago…lol, how irrelevant…

 

[Fred Zed]

Not looking good for the SE 4 with a sub$25 oled panel

The entry-level device will sport a 6.1" AMOLED and it was suggested that Apple's target price for this display is $25 - which was too low for Samsung Display that decided not to continue with its discussions with Apple for the supply of these panels. It will be interesting to see whether these new quality issues also effect the supply of panels to the iphone SE 4.

Reports suggest quality issues at BOE may shift iPhone OLED orders to Samsung Display and LG Display | OLED-Info

Sources in Korea suggest that BOE struggles with supplying AMOLED panels to Apple's iPhone, and Apple may switch some of its orders to LG Display and Samsung Display.BOE is supplying LTPS AMOLED displays to Apple's iPhone 14, 15 and 16 devices, but the company faces quality issues and Apple has...

www.oled-info.com

Watch it have the best most uniform panels ever to DON an iPhone 🤣

 

[LotsOfBees]

An article from 12 years ago…lol, how irrelevant…

pentile matrix oled! SO NEW SO RELEVANT! still the same pentile matrix tech invented in 2000.

 

[LotsOfBees]

Watch it have the best most uniform panels ever to DON an iPhone 🤣

the SE gen 3 has a near perfect display. Im amazed by its sharpness, text clarity and color accuracy everytime im at the apple store.

 

[SSD-GUY]

the SE gen 3 has a near perfect display. Im amazed by its sharpness, text clarity and color accuracy everytime im at the apple store.

This thread popped up after many years, and tbh, I resonate with this reply. My parents use an older SE, and honestly, im sometimes surprised at how much 'sharper' it looks

 

[LotsOfBees]

In a traditional OLED panel, the actual panel itself is of a copper colour, which of course doesn’t work very well for displaying black. To create a reflective black, displays use polariser layers which block light from entering and reflecting off the display, only allowing light generated by the display itself to go through the glass

could this be the missing info that solves the yellow display mystery?

Samsung Display Announces Polarizer-less OLED With 25% Less Power

www.anandtech.com

 

[deevey]

In a traditional OLED panel, the actual panel itself is of a copper colour, which of course doesn’t work very well for displaying black. To create a reflective black, displays use polariser layers which block light from entering and reflecting off the display, only allowing light generated by the display itself to go through the glass

could this be the missing info that solves the yellow display mystery?

Samsung Display Announces Polarizer-less OLED With 25% Less Power

www.anandtech.com

The color got "fixed" on my wife's IP12 after a couple of OS updates - Maybe they toned down the yellow for certain manufacturers screens?

 

[LotsOfBees]

 

[coleblk]

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I can see this probably being the norm. I will say that I could tell that my 16e has a LG panel before I even verified with 3uTools. I don’t necessarily mind them, they are just different. It could be that I have always preferred a cooler color temperature anyway. I got a nice even panel as well; which also seems to be the norm for the LG units. They have very good uniformity, but not as good viewing angles. I wouldn’t have expected the 16e to get a more expensive yield as Apple already has decided that either manufacturer is capable of making a display that meets their standards. But yep, good uniformity, but more off center shift than my Samsung panel 16 Pro (which is less uniform, though, right at the top near the pill). I used to be majorly crazy about my displays but nowadays as long as it’s not truly disgusting and defective, I don’t go looking for problems.

 

[thadoggfather]

I can see this probably being the norm. I will say that I could tell that my 16e has a LG panel before I even verified with 3uTools. I don’t necessarily mind them, they are just different. It could be that I have always preferred a cooler color temperature anyway. I got a nice even panel as well; which also seems to be the norm for the LG units. They have very good uniformity, but not as good viewing angles. I wouldn’t have expected the 16e to get a more expensive yield as Apple already has decided that either manufacturer is capable of making a display that meets their standards. But yep, good uniformity, but more off center shift than my Samsung panel 16 Pro (which is less uniform, though, right at the top near the pill). I used to be majorly crazy about my displays but nowadays as long as it’s not truly disgusting and defective, I don’t go looking for problems.

It’s just too hard to keep up unless the panel is extremely obviously atrocious. Agreed

 

[Fred Zed]

The color got "fixed" on my wife's IP12 after a couple of OS updates - Maybe they toned down the yellow for certain manufacturers screens?

No , the screen just “ broke in “ and settled down. Compare you’re current iPhone to next years launch or when you do upgrade and you’ll see the new one will be yellower. 😆

 

[SumYoungGai]

I had the chance to stop by the Apple Store recently since I was in the area and curious about how the screens looked. It seems like a lot of the phones got swapped out recently since they mostly showed November 2024 for battery manufacture and first use in January.

16 Pro Max: all 4 at one display were GVC or GH3, uneven brightness between top to bottom and one had a really terrible green tint (the entire screen looked green when I was looking down at it from maybe a 30 degree angle).

16 Pro: 3x GVC/GH3, only one G9P. One of the GH3 had a nice and cool white balance and appeared to “pop” contrast wise but the green shift was pretty significant. G9P had no pink unevenness (surprisingly) even with night shift enabled but it was noticeably less bright then the GVC screen right next to it and didn’t pop at all.

For reference and if anyone else wants to check, if you go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch and enable it, enter Customize Top Level Menu and you can change one of the slots to Analytics which will run SysDiagnose. The logs will show up in Privacy after a minute or so and you can export to files, then unzip and go to ioreg, then open IODeviceTree. Search for raw-panel and it will show.

 

[deevey]

No , the screen just “ broke in “ and settled down. Compare you’re current iPhone to next years launch or when you do upgrade and you’ll see the new one will be yellower. 😆

It certainly didn't break-in during the 10 mins an OS update.

It was an immediate fix. I know this for a fact because she had initially used screen "tint" in order to de-yellow it initially and had to turn it off for her after the update as everything was blue tinged.

I currently have a 12 mini, she got a 15 pro a few months back neither of them have ever had yellow looking displays.

Neither of us have ever used True Tone either.