6s yellow tint

[zoneee]

I don't think its an issue to be honest. Some people prefer the White balance to lean towards the Blue side, some the yellow side. You can't please everyone and like Sunking101 above, I find the colour temperature of the screen changes with ambient light anyway. It's never consistent.

Here's my iPhone 6S Plus. Left side was taken under fluorescent lighting, the right incandescent lighting. Same phone, same App. Very Blue colder white balance on the left. Much warmer on the right.

Please stop with this. You have already posted this picture pages ago.
It is well known that some screens have different colors, your picture shows your own experience under two different lights in extreme situations, and does not mean that the screens are always the same and we see them under different light conditions. thank you.

 

[sunking101]

I don't think its an issue to be honest. Some people prefer the White balance to lean towards the Blue side, some the yellow side. You can't please everyone and like Sunking101 above, I find the colour temperature of the screen changes with ambient light anyway. It's never consistent.

Here's my iPhone 6S Plus. Left side was taken under fluorescent lighting, the right incandescent lighting. Same phone, same App. Very Blue colder white balance on the left. Much warmer on the right.

The trouble is, most of my usage is under lighting conditions which give the blue crap on the left hand side. No other iPhone has had this weird temp shift and I don't like it one bit. Surely it must be something to do with the hardware?

 

[sunking101]

Please stop with this. You have already posted this picture pages ago.
It is well known that some screens have different colors, your picture shows your own experience under two different lights in extreme situations, and does not mean that the screens are always the same and we see them under different light conditions. thank you.

Nothing extreme about it, just normal usage in normal conditions. It's a major flaw IMO.

 

[Farsider]

Please stop with this. You have already posted this picture pages ago.
It is well known that some screens have different colors, your picture shows your own experience under two different lights in extreme situations, and does not mean that the screens are always the same and we see them under different light conditions. thank you.

Stop with this? No. Its called a discussion. Sharing experiences and anecdotal information is the point. Feel free not to read this thread if it bothers you.

This isn't extreme lighting conditions - its called everyday lighting conditions.

 

[zoneee]

Stop with this? No. Its called a discussion. Sharing experiences and anecdotal information is the point. Feel free not to read this thread if it bothers you.

This isn't extreme lighting conditions - its called everyday lighting conditions.

I guess I will find this picture posted other 10 times then.

 

[Farsider]

I guess I will find this picture posted other 10 times then.

Riiiiiiiiight.

 

[sunking101]

I guess I will find this picture posted other 10 times then.

I'm extremely surprised that more people haven't commented on the issue. I actually returned a phone due to it only to receive a replacement that did/does exactly the same thing, so it isn't an isolated hardware fault. They all do it Sir...

 

[Farsider]

Yep, I'm on my 3rd iPhone and they did it too. Not an isolated incident.

 

[Laserducky]

My mate's using a 6s+ and is paranoid that his new phone, about 2 weeks old, has yellowed at the top. Nothing major : I wouldn't have noticed unless he made me peer into it and 'look' for it.

Is this even possible ? I thought that you either got the yellowing when new or else screen can be considered 'perfect'.


Cheers!

 

[KevinRightWing]

I have really enjoyed reading this thread. Every iPhone 6s Plus I have seen has a warmer tint in the top left corner vs the rest of the screen. I see it on every app I use including Facebook and Twitter. I have looked at my wife's iPhone along with 3 others and every 6s plus along with several in the Apple Store although it is harder to notice there because of the bright lighting.

Here is the funny part. She doesn't see the difference at all and neither do the other owners of the 6s plus. I seem to be the only person bothered by it.

I doubt I will be returning my 4 day old phone because they all seem to have this "issue" for lack of a better term.

 

[jonstatt1]

My mate's using a 6s+ and is paranoid that his new phone, about 2 weeks old, has yellowed at the top. Nothing major : I wouldn't have noticed unless he made me peer into it and 'look' for it.

Is this even possible ? I thought that you either got the yellowing when new or else screen can be considered 'perfect'.


Cheers!

It is possible indeed. I have noticed the colour temperature and uniformity can change a bit over the first few weeks of usage following warm-up and cool down cycles. Gross errors normally persist and don't change, but there can be some more subtle deviations. Mine is slightly yellow towards the top if the phone is very cold, and it tends to go away as it warms up! For example, if I turn the brightness right the way up and leave it even for 60 seconds, and then turn it back down the yellowness is gone. I suspect it may disappear on its own with further use.

 

[mrex]

Sounds like the colour temp of your display went crazy warm for a while. Mine goes exceptionally cool on occasion.

Dont know but it happened again. Now i was in a car and took my phone to my hand. The whole screen was pink. Eh? Is there a bug in ios9.1 causing this phenomenom? Something to do with ambient light? Sensors are over exaggerating? It didnt help to restart the phone. After awhike the screen was ok again. I also tried to turn off the screen brightness to max and turn off the autobrightness. No help... I wonder if there is somekind of wrong settings in a certain ambient light or so...

 

[thadoggfather]

Dont know but it happened again. Now i was in a car and took my phone to my hand. The whole screen was pink. Eh? Is there a bug in ios9.1 causing this phenomenom? Something to do with ambient light? Sensors are over exaggerating? It didnt help to restart the phone. After awhike the screen was ok again. I also tried to turn off the screen brightness to max and turn off the autobrightness. No help... I wonder if there is somekind of wrong settings in a certain ambient light or so...

I think the tint of Windows in a car can impact this, even for non finicky screens

 

[mrex]

I think the tint of Windows in a car can impact this, even for non finicky screens

This is what i mean... Took a photo with a phone of my bf. Not showing the real life issue on the photo, but the screen looks definitely more pink and the hue "vanished" while using the phone. But as you can see, it wasnt white at all...

 

[Farsider]

Zoneee gets upset when I post photos but if you look back a page, you'll see my screen changes colour temperature when the ambient light changes.

Sunking101 sees the same.

I don't think it's a software issue, just a characteristic of this years iPhones.

 

[Niodoc]

Zoneee gets upset when I post photos but if you look back a page, you'll see my screen changes colour temperature when the ambient light changes.

Sunking101 sees the same.

I don't think it's a software issue, just a characteristic of this years iPhones.

I noticed exactly the same situation. It bothers me a lot especially when I'm outside under the sunlight. In these conditions my iPhone looks really yellow.

 

[mrex]

Might be...

But it doesnt happen always, only seen it happened now twice but used the phone "million times in differend light situation" even on same places. And when it happens the screen is pink literally. That is the reason im thinking of some kind of wrong parameters in a code affecting the hue of the screen in 6s+. Havent seen this ever on my air2 on same places and lights.

I hope there is an error in software affecting the 6s screen (hardware) work funny so that they can fix it.

 

[Merkie]

This is what i mean... Took a photo with a phone of my bf. Not showing the real life issue on the photo, but the screen looks definitely more pink and the hue "vanished" while using the phone. But as you can see, it wasnt white at all...

This doesn't say anything. In a car with tinted windows, it is possible that not the entire spectrum of sunlight comes through, which causes colors to be a little bit off. The screen of the iPhone, however, is not lit by the sun but by the backlight of the screen. This may cause a white screen to look very different than the white iPhone.

I think you guys are making this issue up. I highly doubt that there are screens with dynamic color temperatures. The screen looks different under different circumstances because your environment (which is the color reference 'chart' at that moment) varies. This also explains the "changing" color temperature of the subway photos a few posts back. It's not your screen that changes, it's your environment that changes.

 

[jonstatt1]

This doesn't say anything. In a car with tinted windows, it is possible that not the entire spectrum of sunlight comes through, which causes colors to be a little bit off. The screen of the iPhone, however, is not lit by the sun but by the backlight of the screen. This may cause a white screen to look very different than the white iPhone.

I think you guys are making this issue up. I highly doubt that there are screens with dynamic color temperatures. The screen looks different under different circumstances because your environment (which is the color reference 'chart' at that moment) varies. This also explains the "changing" color temperature of the subway photos a few posts back. It's not your screen that changes, it's your environment that changes.

Nobody is saying it has a dynamic colour temperature. This was attempted incidentally by Pioneer who adjusted the colour temperature of their displays based on surrounding light sources. But in fact the human eye is great at filtering out colour shifts, an auto white balance if you like. But if the screen is too tinted then it goes beyond the realm of compensation. What is happening here is that the ambient light is being reflected off the screen, combined with the backlight at the same time and creating a colour shift as a result. This is an aspect of the design which has changed for whatever reason. In previous models the amount of reflected light must have been less so the colour temperature of the backlight prevailed over anything else. With this screen more of the ambient light is being reflected off the screen and back to the user.

 

[sunking101]

This doesn't say anything. In a car with tinted windows, it is possible that not the entire spectrum of sunlight comes through, which causes colors to be a little bit off. The screen of the iPhone, however, is not lit by the sun but by the backlight of the screen. This may cause a white screen to look very different than the white iPhone.

I think you guys are making this issue up. I highly doubt that there are screens with dynamic color temperatures. The screen looks different under different circumstances because your environment (which is the color reference 'chart' at that moment) varies. This also explains the "changing" color temperature of the subway photos a few posts back. It's not your screen that changes, it's your environment that changes.

No, it's the screen that changes. I use and operate my 6S+ in exactly the same places I have used & operated other phones. They never experienced wild or even minor colour temp shifts. There is something causing this and I doubt very much that it's software.

 

[Merkie]

No, it's the screen that changes. I use and operate my 6S+ in exactly the same places I have used & operated other phones. They never experienced wild or even minor colour temp shifts. There is something causing this and I doubt very much that it's software.

Maybe you can try to record the issue with a digital camera with manual settings? Fixed white balance, fixed exposure, etc.

 

[Niodoc]

As I already wrote, I'm experimenting this kind of "issue". Maybe I'm wrong but it seems being a type of polarisation on the glass or something like this.

 

[thatJohann]

I definitely noticed the screen temperature changing based on where I am and what time it is. For example, on my commute on the train, the screen looks perfect cool blue. However, when I leave work around 5:30pm, the screen looks much warmer. It might be a sort of Flux-type software thing that Apple implemented.

 

[jonstatt1]

I definitely noticed the screen temperature changing based on where I am and what time it is. For example, on my commute on the train, the screen looks perfect cool blue. However, when I leave work around 5:30pm, the screen looks much warmer. It might be a sort of Flux-type software thing that Apple implemented.

Are you sure that's not because in the morning there is some daylight coming through the train windows and the evening it's dark outside so depending 100% on the lights in the train?

 

[mrex]

This doesn't say anything. In a car with tinted windows, it is possible that not the entire spectrum of sunlight comes through, which causes colors to be a little bit off.

And 5min later sitting in the same car the screen is cool white again? i dont think that the sunlight spectrum changes so quickly. Last time it happened i was walking on the street. And abit later the screen was fine again - and no, the ambient light didnt change on that street either during that few minutes.

and i have seen this happens only twice and when it has happened the screen was pink (you cant see the real pinkish hue on the pic though but you can see that it isnt cool white either). Normally the screen in my iphone is cool white.

there is no "making an issue" when you see that the screen is remarkably differend in colours than it was few minutes ago...