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6s yellow tint

Yea, yellow tint for the first time on mine too.. looks gross.


fwiw, a yellow tint is actually just a slightly warmer color temperature at the bottom end of their spec range tolerance. (technically its in spec, but you don’t have to accept that)

All the these backlight LED’s are blue with a yellow coating, depending on slight variations the result will be in a range around 6500k… above = bluer, below = yellower looking (actually orange but looks similar) you cant really adjust white point in calibration.
i think Apple’s midline is around 7000 actually.. anyways


This DOES make the phone screen look dingy and gross regardless of what the naysayers says.
It show we perceive color temperature.

A pink cast.. as someone mentioned above, is for another reason.. (some are slightly green if the opposite occurs)

sometimes the LEDs on each side of the display are too different, making it goes yellow to blue left to right or top to bottom.

I plan to return mine for sure. This can and does happen to iPads, laptops, any LED backlight device.
eventually they will use actual white LED’s, but they aren’t as efficient yet.. give it a few years. The only was to avoid it would be to narrow the tolerance range, but that would add significantly to the price of the phone, and or limit production capacity. Since most people don't care.. price and availability were prob the better choice. since MOST are good

if ones bad.. swap it.

-btw Check out a display that use white LED’s, they are more that twice as thick as normal ones and generate a lot of heat
 
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pscl said:
I thought the yellow thing is over. But mine is yellow! I compared it to my 6 and 6 plus and it is yellow.

Any of you have the same issues?

I will return it at T-Mobile
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In past years, the yellowing was caused by an adhesive which hadn't fully cured since the phones were literally built weeks or days ago. Given a bit of time they dry clear and all is well. But certainly Apple will replace it if you think it's a problem so long as they have one with which to do it. Which they might not.
 
i found, on more than one phone, that when you first turn on the screen of a new phone, it's darker. After a few hours, it will return to full brightness.
 
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Newtons Apple said:
I must be the luckiest guy on earth and all of my iPhones have not suffered these defects and I have had them all.
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I've only had the iPhone 4, 5, 6, and iPad Air 2. Only problem I've had was the crescent Facetime camera on my 6. It wasn't a strong enough reason to swap the phone though. I know a lot of people with iPhones and no one else has had any dead pixels, yellow screens, bent phones, etc. Maybe we just aren't picky enough.
 
Varies between phones. I noticed today that some were very warm and others were cool. Lots of differences between same model of phone at the ones I looked it. Shame you cannot pick the one you want. :)
 
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I take back my previous statement of having a near perfect screen. I have massive backlight leak on the top right and minor discoloration of bright colors on the top left. The bottom half of the phone is perfect. On hold with AppleCare :/.
 
Mlrollin91 said:
I take back my previous statement of having a near perfect screen. I have massive backlight leak on the top right and minor discoloration of bright colors on the top left. The bottom half of the phone is perfect. On hold with AppleCare :/.
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Why call Apple Care? If you bought from Apple direct, just order a new one.
 
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reverberlayed said:
I've only had the iPhone 4, 5, 6, and iPad Air 2. Only problem I've had was the crescent Facetime camera on my 6. It wasn't a strong enough reason to swap the phone though. I know a lot of people with iPhones and no one else has had any dead pixels, yellow screens, bent phones, etc. Maybe we just aren't picky enough.
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Maybe we are not but if it makes ME happy, that is all that is important.
 
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stevefeinstein said:
In past years, the yellowing was caused by an adhesive which hadn't fully cured since the phones were literally built weeks or days ago. Given a bit of time they dry clear and all is well. But certainly Apple will replace it if you think it's a problem so long as they have one with which to do it. Which they might not.
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No, this has never been true.
 
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Mlrollin91 said:
I take back my previous statement of having a near perfect screen. I have massive backlight leak on the top right and minor discoloration of bright colors on the top left. The bottom half of the phone is perfect. On hold with AppleCare :/.
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just see i have that as well...let us know what they said, please, thanks
 
pscl said:
I thought the yellow thing is over. But mine is yellow! I compared it to my 6 and 6 plus and it is yellow.

Any of you have the same issues?

I will return it at T-Mobile
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I have two T-Mobile iPhone 6s Pluses. One is definitely more yellow than the other, but it's a little bit easier on the eye. Not sure if accuracy or comfort is the top priority yet...
 
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UPDATE:

Just received mine and it is slighly yellow tinged. It appears more to the top. I will wait to see if it goes away for a few days and if not, will go and get a replacement phone. Also, don't let them shove the Genius Bar replacements down your throat. Within the first 14 days, you can get a new box replacement, so don't go for the service. I'd rather not take my chances regardless of what people say about Genius Bar units early on.
 
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remcoy said:
Yea, yellow tint for the first time on mine too.. looks gross.

-btw Check out a display that use white LED’s, they are more that twice as thick as normal ones and generate a lot of heat
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There is no such thing as "White LEDs". All LEDs which produce white light use short wavelength blue InGaN LED dies, with a phosphour layer over them which converts some of the blue light to yellow via phase shift. Yellow combined with blue gives white light, although not with equal energy across the full visible spectrum. It is possible to produce whiteish light by combining red/green/blue LEDs, but the quality of light is poor, and power consumption much higher so this is never used for anything but entertainment lighting etc.

When LED chips are manufactured, there are slight inconsistencies between devices, so they are graded or "binned" by colour and output. The consistency of the LED chips used for backlighting all depends on how tight the binning is that Apple accepts. But given how many backlight LEDs they need, they may have to accept a wider than ideal binning range.

In some cases it is possible that with use, the phosphour on the LEDs can "burn in" and become less yellow with use, but that should be a very slow change depending on the operating temp of the LEDs.
 
powerbook911 said:
Why call Apple Care? If you bought from Apple direct, just order a new one.
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Because I wanted to see if they could overnight one to me, or if my local Apple store still had some in stock so I could go swap out.

Billymac19 said:
just see i have that as well...let us know what they said, please, thanks
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AppleCare called my local store, told them about the issue and they told AppleCare to tell me to come in right away and ask for a manager. Upon getting there (Store was packed), I found a manager. He was super nice and took one look at my screen and was like thats not normal. He grabbed my phone and box and 30 seconds later came back with a brand new phone. Resigned me up for the iPhone Upgrade Program and was on my way. This phone looks 10X better.
 
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Because I wanted to see if they could overnight one to me, or if my local Apple store still had some in stock so I could go swap out.



AppleCare called my local store, told them about the issue and they told AppleCare to tell me to come in right away and ask for a manager. Upon getting there (Store was packed), I found a manager. He was super nice and took one look at my screen and was like thats not normal. He grabbed my phone and box and 30 seconds later came back with a brand new phone. Resigned me up for the iPhone Upgrade Program and was on my way. This phone looks 10X better.
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nice, congrats!
 
Mine is a tad warmer than my 6 screen. Definitely a small downgrade (to my tastes, of course). One thing I do notice on my screen is somewhat similar to the bookspine shading some minis had. The right edge of my screen has a quantifiably darker shade.

Having played the exchange game before, i may just say F*ck it...
 
Could be due to different displays used on same 6S/6S+ models ?

Is the yellow tint issues only noticed on 6S or 6S+ as well ? Don't notice any yellow tint on my new 6S
 
This really really bothers me too.

Thinking of going to the Apple store tomorrow to try and exchange.
 
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