I know this happens every year to people, but the side by side comparison in brightness is downright shocking for my new black 15 Pro vs my purple 14 Pro. I dont think theres any settings I can play with, its just a straight up crap screen. Very disappointed. Anyone else in this boat this year?
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iPhone 15 Pro 15 Pro significantly less bright than 14 Pro, Im kinda shocked
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It’s a tad brighter than the 14 Pro at just over 1050 nits. Turn off auto brightness on both phones, turn off True Tone, then take both brightness sliders all the way down and then all the way up and wait. You should getting about 800 nits with both on an all white display.
I made the rookie mistake of forgetting the phone automatically dims when its overheating (this was right after restore, with a ton of apps downloading).
False alarm, I actually love the screen so far
False alarm, I actually love the screen so far
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Yeah it took just over a hour for all the apps to download on a fast internet service at the cell company store. Once that was done and I then looked at the brightness and I had a difficult time telling if my 14 Pro or 15 Pro were even different. Sidenote the 14 Pro is going to my wife and I traded in a 11 Pro at the store.
I do notice that outside in the summer heat all my iPhones and my iPad as well quickly dim to below what's easily readable for me, well below 1000 nits after half an hour or so. At that point it's dimmer than the Macbook screen at 500 nits right next to it which is just embarrassing.
I doubt how much improvement the new screen brightness (well, unchanged from the 14 Pro) really is considering that in the past even keeping up 1000 nits could be an issue. Sitting outdoors with my iPhone 13 Pro's screen at 100% brightness the display heats up a lot and starts dimming after a couple minutes.
The 2000 nits would be super useful in the most intense summer sun and in my experience that's precisely when the heat causes the displays to dim. Still leaves all the winter months where it's just fine but then I'd like to be able to use the advertised specs all year round...
The only major difference is getting rid of Lightning and even then that's irrelevant for anyone who doesn't use that or even charges wirelessly most of the time. All other changes like the action button and Ti housing are smaller changes/refinements.
I doubt how much improvement the new screen brightness (well, unchanged from the 14 Pro) really is considering that in the past even keeping up 1000 nits could be an issue. Sitting outdoors with my iPhone 13 Pro's screen at 100% brightness the display heats up a lot and starts dimming after a couple minutes.
The 2000 nits would be super useful in the most intense summer sun and in my experience that's precisely when the heat causes the displays to dim. Still leaves all the winter months where it's just fine but then I'd like to be able to use the advertised specs all year round...
They aren't supposed to be as all the display specs are identical between the two. Which is part of what makes the latest gen a bit boring. Before 2023, every new iPhone Pro generation brought something to the table, more brightness, or the ceramic shield, or when HDR support was first introduced.
The only major difference is getting rid of Lightning and even then that's irrelevant for anyone who doesn't use that or even charges wirelessly most of the time. All other changes like the action button and Ti housing are smaller changes/refinements.
2000 nits is false advertising by Apple unfortunately. You can only hit that value with a 3% window meaning 97% of the display is not illuminated.
With a 100% window 1050 nits is much brighter than the best OLED TV’s on the market. OLED displays are hugely inefficient with white backgrounds and draw a tremendous amount of wattage. We’re talking 1.5 watts of an LCD iPhone to over 4 watts for OLED. This is why dark mode saves so much battery life as the power consumption drops considerably.
With a 100% window 1050 nits is much brighter than the best OLED TV’s on the market. OLED displays are hugely inefficient with white backgrounds and draw a tremendous amount of wattage. We’re talking 1.5 watts of an LCD iPhone to over 4 watts for OLED. This is why dark mode saves so much battery life as the power consumption drops considerably.
It specifically mentions outdoors, so I'd assume it's time-limited such as when you look at the phone to see if you got a notification or you want to check the time, then it can do 2000 nits for a couple seconds and that's it. It doesn't seem to be for HDR either since that is limited to 1600 nits. I can't see any outdoor use situation where only 3% of the display are in use. Sure the AOD might fit the bill, but then I highly doubt the AOD shines at 2000 nits or even half that. But maybe Apple really did avertise it wrong.
Yep 2000 nits is a 3% window with auto brightness enabled and the sunlight on the ambient light sensor.