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Will the 'pressure point' blemish on the 6S Plus be addressed in a hardware revision?
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Honestly if it gets better overtime than good. If it does get worse over time than just use your one year warranty and get another. By then the refurbished ones should be better.
Beware that some of this may be your eyes playing tricks on you. I have a tiny blemish on my 6s Plus, however now my eyes are tricking me into seeing the same on my iPad Air 2, despite it not actually existing on there.
Bit like thinking your screen is yellow when you look at the settings app with the green icons of cellular, personal hotspot, carrier, phone, messages and FaceTime on the screen.
Bit like thinking your screen is yellow when you look at the settings app with the green icons of cellular, personal hotspot, carrier, phone, messages and FaceTime on the screen.
I have the issue. It was super annoying, especially on Facebook where the dark shadow at the bottom left bleeds in to whatever picture you are looking at.
Took it to the Apple Store, they drew rectangles around the issue and hooked me up with a brand new iPhone 6S+ gold 128.
Took it to the Apple Store, they drew rectangles around the issue and hooked me up with a brand new iPhone 6S+ gold 128.
Has anyone's exchanges been perfect so far, without a blemish? I might try an Apple store to see what there is to offer...
EDIT: Just set a Genius Bar appointment at 4:50 pm on Friday, the 9th just in case. This will be the 14th day I've owned the phone.
EDIT: Just set a Genius Bar appointment at 4:50 pm on Friday, the 9th just in case. This will be the 14th day I've owned the phone.
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I swapped my Silver 6s Plus on 9/29. Both devices had the blemish, although the second one was a bit less noticeable. Now returned that device back to T-Mobile and placed an order for a SG 6s Plus. Hoping the 2-4 week backorder is enough time for Apple to correct the issue in a new manufacturing run. Not holding my breath though.
Thanks for this info.
I wonder... can Apple open the phone on the spot and quality-check it with me before I walk out?
Next time, use better lighting and your photo will come out a lot better even with a crappy iPad camera. Sometimes it's you and not the device.
I don't see why not. The only thing that can't be done at this point is replacing the screen only, which is why all Genius Bar replacements are brand new, not refurbished.
People who say they dont' have it probably have the slightest version of it. The one video that someone posted though with literally a dark spot in the top left corner that to me is crazy. Otherwise the pics in here dont' show anything crazy..
I don't mind going through 5 iPhones with the guy at the Genius Bar as long as one doesn't have the blemish!
Returned my second 6S+ today and got a Silver 128 6S+.
This one is a good as it gets as the display is consistent in the top and bottom right corners and the blemish is almost imperceptible. If you ran your phone brighter than I do the screen would be pretty much perfect. Pretty much, as it is still not as good as the display on the 6+.
Also this one has the TSMC chip, so I guess all of my obsessive compulsions are now satisfied.
This one is a good as it gets as the display is consistent in the top and bottom right corners and the blemish is almost imperceptible. If you ran your phone brighter than I do the screen would be pretty much perfect. Pretty much, as it is still not as good as the display on the 6+.
Also this one has the TSMC chip, so I guess all of my obsessive compulsions are now satisfied.
I've checked six 6s Pluses owned by myself, family, and friends.
They all have the little blemish on the lower left.
Annoyingly I now notice it, haha!
Should stay away from this forum!
Check your friends' phones, but don't point it out to them. You don't want to spread the insanity and give them buyer's remorse.
Check your friends' phones, but don't point it out to them. You don't want to spread the insanity and give them buyer's remorse.
*looks at friend's phone*
"Oh wow yeah I was thinking of getting the gold one yeah it looks nice"
*sees obvious blemish, hands it back*
"Yeah no it's great, so nice, great screen!"
Hahaha
My 6S+ 128 GB also has the blemish, but on the left and right hand side. The one on the left is almost unnoticable but the one on the right is like the ones i've seen here in this thread on some pictures. It's not obvious but quite noticable when scrolling webpages. Do you think exchanging the phone and getting one with only one blemish is worth the hussle? I'm not that sure. But on the other hand i do see it all the time...
I am glad I do not suffer from this amount of OCD. I cannot see a difference between the 2.
I showed someone my phone and one person saw a little something but others saw nothing. This forum makes me crazy lol. Wish I never saw this thread. By the way I don't see a difference either between those pics.
I was extremely disappointed on launch day to get my $1300 phone out of the box and lay it next to my old 6+ only to see right away that it had dark corners and the blemish shadow. The display was visibly inferior to the older phone and it was a big let down after all of the hype.
Apple must know the displays are not as good on the new phones, but they sent them out anyways. I feel a bit cheated by this, especially at the silly prices the phones go for. I don't think it's all OCD on my part, but rather there is a bit of consumer anger involved as well.
The picture I posted is of my second phone which was the best screen we had seen here on a 6S+, but it still had darker corners and the pinched glass blemish. The picture doesn't really do it justice to what you see in the hand or at any angle.
Anyways I ended up getting a phone I can live with now, and it is so much better than the first two I feel the effort was worth it and would recommend that anyone who is unhappy do the same and clearly tell Apple why.
Your blemish in the photos isnt really noticeable though. Unless it doesn't translate well but. It's not worth risk of getting something worse.
Yeah I should have take the pic at an handheld angle rather than head on. Others have captured it much better than myself:
https://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/image-jpeg.587218/
http://fcdn.macrumors.com/data/attachments/502/502386-f267b5d78077c2b7f498da87fad9a93c.jpg