This season's screen tint is pink......

Dlanod · Mar 17, 2012

Well my New iPad has a reddish pink tinge at the left top of the screen and a bluish cooler bottom half. And it looks horrible in mail or Kindle. So its going back. Pretty disappointing. I'm an Apple fan but I have a cheap HTC tablet and the colour on that is perfect. We see this every launch. Warm/cold I can take. Multi coloured is not an option.

Pigumon · Mar 17, 2012

Wow, mine is just pink/purple compared to my 2. I don't like it as much. I wish it was more yellow or orange.

Dlanod · Mar 17, 2012

Picked up another one at my local Currys and it's better. Went for a 64GB 4G instead of the 32GB 4G I'd preordered as well. The preorder one will go back to Apple with its rainbow screen. The new one was build week 7 and the other one week 8 so not sure if it's a curing thing or not. But the week 7 one is definitely better. Still a bit reddish at the top but much more even.

russell2 · Mar 17, 2012

Yes I much prefer bluish whites on my iPad2 this pink is fugly and it doesn't look that pink at a straight angle but the second it's titled it's pink it's bugging the hell out of me. One of the selling points to me was the better contrast Tim promised what 30% or something?

How do I know what week mine is?

madKIR · Mar 17, 2012

Mine has a very subtle pink tint as well!
I decided to go to one of the Apple stores to compare mine with the display models.
To my surprise, I found some very disgusting RED screens, others were comparable to mine, and there were also other screens that had a blue cast to them.
When I came back home, I compared it with my MacBook Pro 13" 2010, which is the best display I have ever owned. So my iPad looks like a smaller copy of the Mac's display in terms of the tint and color gamut, which is great.

mcdj · Mar 18, 2012

Mine is pink in some areas and grreenish cyan in others. (the cyan areas may in fact be neutral, but they look cyan compared to the pink areas.)

What's more annoying than the color(s) is that they seem to shift as I tilt or rotate the screen. The screen also goes darker at much lower angles than the iPad 2 did.

It's as if I'm looking at the screen through polarized sunglasses, which is ironic because I just bought new sunglasses and specified they not be polarized because it makes my iPhone screen look so wacky.

I hesitate to return for fear of a worse issue in the replacement.

r-sparks · Mar 18, 2012

Mine's got a subtle pink tint

Dlanod said:
Well my New iPad has a reddish pink tinge at the left top of the screen and a bluish cooler bottom half. And it looks horrible in mail or Kindle. So its going back. Pretty disappointing. I'm an Apple fan but I have a cheap HTC tablet and the colour on that is perfect. We see this every launch. Warm/cold I can take. Multi coloured is not an option.

32GB iPad 3 here, wifi, black. Any white areas of the screen get a uniform subtle pink tint if using the iPad in sunlight, regardless of the brightness level. Indoors away from windows it appears to be pure white.

What's the protocol here? Wait for it to bed down and see if it improves? How long will that take?

Demanding a replacement straight away is tricky -- here in the UK the 32GB wifi model is out of stock at the moment, and I got mine from John Lewis, which is now out of stock of nearly all models.

(FWIW when I unboxed mine there was small bits of glue near the bottom that I had to remove by wiping. I've no idea if this was from the plastic wrapping, or just a messy job gluing the screen. Otherwise it's cosmetically perfect.)

Pigumon · Mar 19, 2012

::sigh:: Well it must be a curing thing. The pink is totally gone, now there's a decidedly green tint to the whole screen.

I compared it to my iPad 2 and it's just horrible. The iPad two colors are pretty accurate, this is just darker and greener.

It's like the difference between a monitor with a regular backlight or one with an LED backlight, those are always more blue/green.

I'm going to bring mine to the store and compare it to other new iPads.

Aside from the horrible color shift... I love this thing! The retina clarity is just great.

EarlZ · Mar 19, 2012

Dlanod said:
We see this every launch.

Does this mean in 3-4 months after launch, the issues are sorted out ?

r-sparks · Mar 20, 2012

r-sparks said:
32GB iPad 3 here, wifi, black. Any white areas of the screen get a uniform subtle pink tint if using the iPad in sunlight, regardless of the brightness level. Indoors away from windows it appears to be pure white.

What's the protocol here? Wait for it to bed down and see if it improves? How long will that take?

Demanding a replacement straight away is tricky -- here in the UK the 32GB wifi model is out of stock at the moment, and I got mine from John Lewis, which is now out of stock of nearly all models.

(FWIW when I unboxed mine there was small bits of glue near the bottom that I had to remove by wiping. I've no idea if this was from the plastic wrapping, or just a messy job gluing the screen. Otherwise it's cosmetically perfect.)

I took mine back and bought a different one from the nearby Apple store. This has the same slight pink tint, although maybe slightly less. I had a look at the demo models in store and one had the pink tint, while one didn't appear to do so (the best way to discover is to open a Safari tab, then hit the lower right button to drop the keyboard out of the way so you get a blank white screen).

I couldn't really look at any other models because salespeople kept swooping on me asking if I needed help. I did try an iPad 2 that seemed to have the same slight pink tint though.

I could keep asking for a replacement but it's time consuming. All I really wanted to do was make sure mine wasn't a dud. And it appears it isn't.

Thing is, it now feels that my Macbook Pro has a very slight yellow-ish tint! My vision has been broken! The best of all seems to be my iPhone, which looks white. But I think the moral of the story is that pure white on an LED-lit LCD screen is difficult.

russell2 · Mar 20, 2012

r-sparks said:
I took mine back and bought a different one from the nearby Apple store. This has the same slight pink tint, although maybe slightly less. I had a look at the demo models in store and one had the pink tint, while one didn't appear to do so (the best way to discover is to open a Safari tab, then hit the lower right button to drop the keyboard out of the way so you get a blank white screen).

I couldn't really look at any other models because salespeople kept swooping on me asking if I needed help. I did try an iPad 2 that seemed to have the same slight pink tint though.

I could keep asking for a replacement but it's time consuming. All I really wanted to do was make sure mine wasn't a dud. And it appears it isn't.

Thing is, it now feels that my Macbook Pro has a very slight yellow-ish tint! My vision has been broken! The best of all seems to be my iPhone, which looks white. But I think the moral of the story is that pure white on an LED-lit LCD screen is difficult.

If we could just calibrate our color as none of the TVs in my house have red or yellow whites

Nikos · Mar 27, 2012

Has anyone else's pink tint gone away after some time? I'm thinking about exchanging mine (again) but don't want to end up with something worse.

anjinha · Mar 27, 2012

Pink is the new white.

Redjericho · Mar 27, 2012

I swear, I have waited 2 1/2 weeks dor my iPad to arrive, if it's got anything like this I won't be a happy camper.

thelookingglass · Mar 31, 2012

Yep, have the same issue. Pink emanating from the upper left. It's not noticeable unless I'm viewing something with a white background. Like a webpage ... or an ebook ... which is pretty much 75%+ of my usage time on the iPad.

I've been leaving the screen on 100% brightness and cycling through a photo slideshow and movies to see if this will have any effect. Not sure that it will.

Stealthipad · Mar 31, 2012

I think that the colors are from the backlight LEDs not all being the color temp. This could not be corrected with any color correction software as there is not way you could just correct for a few miss colored LEDs.

netnothing · Mar 31, 2012

mcdj said:
Mine is pink in some areas and grreenish cyan in others. (the cyan areas may in fact be neutral, but they look cyan compared to the pink areas.)

What's more annoying than the color(s) is that they seem to shift as I tilt or rotate the screen. The screen also goes darker at much lower angles than the iPad 2 did.

It's as if I'm looking at the screen through polarized sunglasses, which is ironic because I just bought new sunglasses and specified they not be polarized because it makes my iPhone screen look so wacky.

I hesitate to return for fear of a worse issue in the replacement.

I've noticed that the new iPad tends to have a worse color shift than the iPad 2 when tilting it. Not sure if it's just the new screen tech or not.

-Kevin

Stealthipad · Mar 31, 2012

kbmb said:
I've noticed that the new iPad tends to have a worse color shift than the iPad 2 when tilting it. Not sure if it's just the new screen tech or not.

-Kevin

I can tilt mine is all 4 directions and the most I see is a slight darkening but no color shift.

netnothing · Mar 31, 2012

Stealthipad said:
I can tilt mine is all 4 directions and the most I see is a slight darkening but no color shift.

Not sure if mine is as much of a true color shift as much as when it darkens, you can perceive that the color changes slightly.

Don't know how much I'm OCD after reading these forums

My screen seems fine to me....the biggest issue tends to be that the screen does get darker quicker as you tilt it....compared to the iPad 2 that is.

-Kevin

Hello... · Mar 31, 2012

It's a Easter gift, no a problem.

Justin Luck · Mar 31, 2012

Stealthipad said:
I can tilt mine is all 4 directions and the most I see is a slight darkening but no color shift.

On mine in portrait: tilted down = green; tilted up = pink.

Straight on: yellow / pink on bottom 1/4 of screen.

Stealthipad · Mar 31, 2012

Justin Luck said:
On mine in portrait: tilted down = green; tilted up = pink.

Straight on: yellow / pink on bottom 1/4 of screen.

It is hard to believe that two screens that are made exactly the same could exhibit different characteristics when tilted. It make me wonder if all screens are built the same as mine, at best, only dims.

netnothing · Mar 31, 2012

Stealthipad said:
It is hard to believe that two screens that are made exactly the same could exhibit different characteristics when tilted. It make me wonder if all screens are built the same as mine, at best, only dims.

I wonder how much it's peoples eyes as well. I tend to see a slight color shift more than my wife does.

I'm also wondering how much of this yellow tint issue people are having can be solved by software.

-Kevin

thatoneguy82 · Mar 31, 2012

It's either I'm lucky or I'm not OCD. But, I've two of the new iPads and both were "perfect." I had to exchange an AT&T version for a Verizon version, not for any defects at all. Both versions had nothing wrong with it, even that light thing you guys talk about. So, yeah, maybe I'm just not OCD.

Nikos · Mar 31, 2012

Here's mine. The backlight is a bit worse than it looks in photos and, as you can see, I have a bit of a pink issue when tilted. Has it been determined whether that's normal?

My room was as dark as possible during the day (blinds closed) and the photos are unedited from my iPhone 4S.

EDIT: Exchanged it for another one and it has the same pink tint, as well as a battery charging issue and sever light bleed through a pin hole at the top of the screen. The new one is a WEEK 2.

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