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

[thadoggfather]

Do you guys all use your phones with true tone off? I used my XS with true tone on and it never seemed to bother me.

depends on the TT calibration / 'synergy' with the screen

I generally think TT goes better with LCD but

I keep it on 95% of the time on my iPads (easier for reading, dont need color accuracy when watching videos that are more for commentary but for movies I'll turn it off), works well with SE 2 and so far seems good with my 12 Pro. I could see it staying on 3/4 of the time.

One perk I really like is sometime it even looks preferable to TT off in the car. Sun through a slightly tinted or even heavily tinted car, is offset well by it to portray whites where it would normally be super yellow and dingy from the sunlight source

ymmv big time though.

 

[arforbes]

iPhone 12 Pro/iPhone 11 Pro Max... definitely different color temperatures.I much prefer the Pro Max colors.....

Edit: Max brightness on both, True Tone off on both.

 

[gpoop]

View attachment 972625 iPhone 12 Pro/iPhone 11 Pro Max... definitely different color temperatures.I much prefer the Pro Max colors.....

Same. It makes everything look vintage. I hate it. How do you swap it out for a new one if you ordered from apple.com?

 

[Shadowbech]

Can’t tell. Not sure. it is a bit warmer for sure

 

[5105973]

Everything fine here. Nice bright crisp white display on my 12 Pro. Same as on my 11 Pro. Now I’m going to go make it nice and yellow the way I like it with Tru Tone and night shift. Lol.

 

[magid]

What do you guys think? Looks pretty yellow to me. True Tone and night shift of on all three and set to 75% brightness. SE2020 on the left and 8 plus on the right. Could it just be LCD vs OLED?

 

[Robbosan]

What do you guys think? Looks pretty yellow to me. True Tone and night shift of on all three and set to 75% brightness. SE2020 on the left and 8 plus on the right. Could it just be LCD vs OLED?

Looks pink on my 5k 27" iMac. The se looks more yellow, how much bigger is the 8 plus screen lol. 6.1" my ar5e.

 

[flashflooder]

I used to worry about this every time a new phone released. Then I learned to forget about it, and I'm much better off for it.

 

[RayLancer]

Very detailed analysis. She says the displays are definitely on the warmer side vs the iPhone X but on par with the note 20 Ultra and stuff. Color accuraccy looks good.

 

[alisalem]

Keep in mind that most cameras will show a tint different than what your eye actually sees.

 

[deano1972]

Turning off True Tone makes it look a lot cooler.

 

[Robbosan]

I just turned off true tone, swapped to light mode and from standard to zoomed and my 11 pro feels like a new phone lol.
No need to upgrade now.

 

[kre62]

Lol. Got the yellowest screen ive ever had. Karma I guess phone goes back tomorrow. Display phone was immaculate.

 

[Robbosan]

Lol. Got the yellowest screen ive ever had. Karma I guess phone goes back tomorrow. Display phone was immaculate.

Photo?

 

[decypher44]

My Pro finally arrived! Happy to say my screen looks good. Really good. Unfortunately, I had already erased my XSMax, so I had to use my daughter’s 6S to take the photo. It looks much, much better in person.

 

[bevsb2]

Guys I swear the phone just recalibrated on its own and the brightness is completely fine and even better on the 12 than 11 while the difference was staggering just a minute ago with the 11 being much brighter.

I had a similar experience. I just erased my 12Pro and set it up again using my 11Pro to transfer. I did this because some of the items didn't transfer with the first attempt (missing contacts and other things). Anyway after the original transfer done in the Apple store, the 12Pro was considerably warmer and a lot less bright than the 11Pro. After the 2nd transfer the brightness is the same on both phones and the 12Pro may be very slightly warmer but more than acceptable.

 

[zuckuss00]

Dealing with a slightly warming tint verses my iPhone X. Same setting with True Tone off.

I'm not sure if this is going to improve or if the display is just naturally warmer on this new phone.

 

[floriano8812]

Even w/o true tone my iP 12 look to yellowish compared to XS. I hate this.

Want to keep the blue 12 but now Im struggling.

 

[Sam in SoCal]

Where’s my 12 pro on the spectrum?

 

[Axam]

At home I have calibrated display with hardware LUT. Compared my iPhone X, XR and iPad Pro with this display. iPhone X was almost perfectly matching calibrated display. XR and iPad Pro are slightly blueish-reddish. Today I visited several retail stores and compared iPhone X and XR with display units. All display units which I saw had slightly more yellowish tint than X and more strong tint compared to XR. Turning on or off TrueTone doesn’t matter.

Human eyes adapt over time to slight differences in white balance. Ideally iPhone target for calibration is 6503K (D65). If you want check your new iPhone screen at home, you need set white balance in photo app to 6500K manually. Default iPhone camera application doesn’t allow that, so you need use DSLR/mirrorless camera or app like Halide. This way you can get repeatable by other forum members results. Auto white balance will pickup one of screens as target. So you can compare difference between two phones, but you can’t compare how it’s different from reference calibration target.

 

[Kent viggo]

View attachment 972625

iPhone 12 Pro/iPhone 11 Pro Max... definitely different color temperatures.I much prefer the Pro Max colors.....

Edit: Max brightness on both, True Tone off on both.

There we really have it. It should not look like that, period.

No it isn’t the glue, no it isn’t people imagining thing. It’s clear as day, these displays, for some reason, is way too yellow.

 

[Toonartist]

It looks fine to me. That other white looks way too blue for me.

People are so used to seeing cold, blue tint screens that when they see a calibrated screen, it looks very green/yellow in comparison... in reality, its the blue screen that is poorly setup and will add to eye strain (blue light).

Most TV's, Monitors, phones etc etc are never calibrated and accept the screen as it is. As a photographer, illustrator and spend time and money calibrating all screens so I'm somewhat used to doing it. When I see a phone that is considered normal by many, I see a cold blue tint. It's just what Im used to. To be fair, there is no reason why most people would calibrate a screen... they would expect it to be right for their use from the get go.

That's why I'd recommend living with a warmer display, calibrated screen for a little while, view photos and web content and take notice of the colours. They should appear a lot more vibrant, natural.

Also, if it is only slightly out and you are used to balancing colour... take a look in settings - Accessibility - Display and Text Size - Colour Filters.

Two settings you can play with here.

First is Blue/Yellow Filter. Start with low intensity and use the wood part of the pencils as a gauge as to whether the balance is right.

Second is Colour Tint. This one has intensity and hue. Again go light with the intensity and drag the hue to balance the colour.

Personally, I'd stick with the first as it manages the two tints that balance the warmth.

 

[John_JD_Doe]

People are so used to seeing cold, blue tint screens that when they see a calibrated screen, it looks very green/yellow in comparison... in reality, its the blue screen that is poorly setup and will add to eye strain (blue light).

I had my computer screen calibrated with X-Rite i1 in 6500. I’m used to good calibrated screens/that yellowish tone you mentioned. Mi 12P it’s clearly more Yellow than that.

 

[Kent viggo]

I had my computer screen calibrated with X-Rite i1 in 6500. I’m used to good calibrated screens/that yellowish tone you mentioned. Mi 12P it’s clearly more Yellow than that.

Same. Holding it up to and comparing my 12 pro with my 6500k calibrated display that it used for color sensitive work (photo editing and graphical design) - the 12 pro is substantially more yellow.

This shouldnt be the case if the 12 pro was properly calibrated.

 

[barry.wiestling]

So with True Tone off my display looks pretty good. With True Tone on, it looks very yellow. Should I play the lottery and try to get one that doesn’t look yellow with True Tone on?