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After buying the 10.5" iPad Air and seeing the well known white spot on the screen above the home button i decided to exchange it for the new 10.9" Air. Unfortunately i notice quite a bit of light bleed. Was wondering if anyone else has light bleed on their new Air 10.9" ?

The photo makes it look a bit worse than it really is but it's most annoying along the upper right edge.


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Get a pro only way to dodge these problems. light bleed has been around forever.
 
After buying the 10.5" iPad Air and seeing the well known white spot on the screen above the home button i decided to exchange it for the new 10.9" Air. Unfortunately i notice quite a bit of light bleed. Was wondering if anyone else has light bleed on their new Air 10.9" ?

The photo makes it look a bit worse than it really is but it's most annoying along the upper right edge.


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Does it affect you in your day to day usage?
 
The one I received had light bleed in the exact same spot. Assuming that the right side in the picture is where the charging port is.

Exchanging unit at this time seems pointless. I don’t think you will get one without light bleed due to the current manufacturing.
 
Get a pro only way to dodge these problems. light bleed has been around forever.
Definitely not true. The second gen iPad pro 12.9 was a disaster. Almost all the ones I saw had light bleeding issues, nothing to do with pro or not. My iPad pro 10.5 had the white spot too. Its a lottery now to get a good screen.
 
All good here. End of November build, backlight is uniformed at 100% brightness, tested with lightbleedtest.com.
 
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