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iPhone 13 Pro 120hz a bit overrated?

I turn off high refresh rate on my Android. It actually made me feel a bit dizzy when scrolling with the smoothing effect. Plus the battery life, might as well turn it off.

Having a great OLED screen is more important to me than high refresh rate. Bright and good colors are more pleasing to my eyes.
 
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I can certainly tell the difference, but I think I've learned that the phrase "you can't go back" (as it was also used to describe the transition from non-"Retina" to "Retina") should always be interpreted with the air quotes intact. Of course you can go back, but you depending on who you are, you may or may not decide you want to.
 
I think it‘s definitely more of a luxury feature compared to a computer, especially if you don‘t game on your phone.

The smooth display is nice and I think the difference is very noticeable, but I could easily get used to a 60 Hz phone screen again. It‘d be jarring at first, but I was always happy with previous iPhones back when there were no 120 Hz screen options.
 
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IMHO 60hz LCDs are smoother than 60hz OLED. Thus it seems that promotion makes more of a difference on the iPhone 13 Pro than on the MBP or iPad.
 
ian87w said:
I turn off high refresh rate on my Android. It actually made me feel a bit dizzy when scrolling with the smoothing effect. Plus the battery life, might as well turn it off.

Having a great OLED screen is more important to me than high refresh rate. Bright and good colors are more pleasing to my eyes.
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Not sure how good the Androids are when it comes to VRR but on iPhones it actually saves the battery. Dropping the refresh rate to 10 Hz while on a static screen as opposed to 60 Hz in prior generations adds to the extra battery life. Not to mention the video playback that’s mostly 24 Hz iirc.
 
maybe a bit. But as a whole it’s a fantastic addition.

120hz just makes everything so much smoother and faster
 
asus389 said:
IMHO 60hz LCDs are smoother than 60hz OLED. Thus it seems that promotion makes more of a difference on the iPhone 13 Pro than on the MBP or iPad.
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It’s the opposite for me. My work phone is an iPhone XR and it’s a bit less smooth. I guess you can say it has kind of a ghosting effect when scrolling.
 
Zaft said:
Anyone else feel it’s a bit overrated on the phone? It’s more noticeable with the iPad for me.

I had previously thought it would spoil me as my wife has the 13PM and I have a 12PM. It definitely is nice but I don’t have an issue as my eyes adjust very quickly.
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Using an 11PM, I’ve never used 120 hz. Am I missing something? 😎
 
its not really that big deal to me. I notice it on the iPhone 13 pro we have vs my mini 13. It doesn't break the experience when I notice it. Same with 60hz on my mini 6 but it doesn't bother me vs my 11 pro. To me the small form factor is great for the mini.

On my 14, I don't notice the smoothness of scrolling but maybe when I try using a MBA it'll notice a difference.
 
Big diff to me, I have a 13 max Mrs has a 12 max. Just tried a MBAir 2, it sucks v the 14" I also tried, same with iPads.
No 120 no buy/keep for me.
 
Not at all. It's the only reason I upgraded my still perfectly fine 12 Pro. After using it I can never go back to a phone without it.
 
For me, how the screen looks and scrolls is about as important to the overall experience as you can get. Well worth it as far as I’m concerned.
 
I notice it more on a larger screen actually. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro and a 120hz display at home but the 2016 MBP doesn't support it, it runs at 60Hz. When I switch it over to my PC, it runs at 120 and is noticeably better.

I'm glad my iPhone has it, and especially my iPad. But I definitely notice it a lot more on the iPad. The iPad would be hard to go back to 60. The iPhone I'd probably not notice really.
 
I think it's overrated. I appreciate a higher refresh, but just not on a phone. I'm not sure why people were so adamant about it coming to the iPhone as if it made some sort of huge difference in their experience using such a small device (relatively speaking). I use a gaming monitor for my desktop setup and get a 120 refresh and 144 when I plug in my laptop. I see the difference there and without a doubt prefer something in the ballpark of 120 for that. BUT - my monitor is 27 inches. Not 6.
 
Craigf56 said:
I couldn’t go back. I honestly don’t get how people can’t say the difference. However, I do think the difference is less noticeable on iPhones compared to Android as the touch latency is so good on non 120 hz handsets. I suspect that’s why it took Apple so long to make the change.
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For whatever reason I notice a big difference with refresh rates on Android vs iOS/iPadOS.

My Pixel 4 has a 90Hz screen, and if I turn it off/set the screen at 60Hz the difference is *very* apparent.

On my iPhone 13 Pro and 11" iPad Pro (both with ProMotion), if I go into Accessibility and toggle the high refresh rate off I barely notice a change.

And of course what's odd with all of that is that the difference on the Pixel is only 30Hz, while it's up to 60Hz on the Apple devices. (Depending on what the variable rate is at the moment.) And the Apple devices in question are both OLED and LCD, so it's not a matter of screen tech. One final note: I just set up new work monitors on my Windows laptop, and the difference between 30Hz and 60Hz is pretty evident.
 
realpras said:
ProMotion on iPhone is inferior to iPad’s. It barely ever touches 120Hz.

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This video is from launch, it has been improved since then.

It does, though, still need some work before it's as consistently smooth as other 120hz phones.
 
no0nefamous said:
This video is from launch, it has been improved since then.

It does, though, still need some work before it's as consistently smooth as other 120hz phones.
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I think what had been improved was 3rd party apps can take full advantage of the ProMotion features with iOS 15.4, but the overall system-wide should be the same, unless I forget something?
 
When I first got the pro I really noticed it now it seems normal. If I use a 60hrz device I can tell the difference right away.
 
Absolutely not. 120Hz is immidiately noticable and looks fantastic.

Edit: Sorry I just read that you mean only on iPhones, which I honestly don't recall if I've tried.
 
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