iPad Air screen defect?

[mcdj]

So here is a pic of my fourth iPad Air. It's hard to capture a perfect picture, this one still doesn't truly reflect how the screens look in person. It all depens how you point the camera and the ambient light in the room.

I really can't find anything wrong with this screen. I placed my iPhone 5 next to the Air for perspective. same brightness 65% and same white image.

Yours looks pretty much like mine, which is to say acceptable, but still shifting warm to cool, left to right. The yellow pops right out at me in the bottom left corner. Also in your photo, the blue line on the top and right is rather glaring, though it may be a camera artifact. It does seem odd that it would be in the same place the blue shift appears in all the Airs I've seen...top and right.

Again, a vibrance boost in photoshop amplifies what's there...

Not posting this to take away from your experience, but to show that while there are some acceptable levels of the shift out there, I still have yet to see a single one that displays no shift.

Be sure to click the thumbnail. Macrumors compression is awful.

 

[TheSwede]

Yours looks pretty much like mine, which is to say acceptable, but still shifting warm to cool, left to right. The yellow pops right out at me in the bottom left corner. Also in your photo, the blue line on the top and right is rather glaring, though it may be a camera artifact. It does seem odd that it would be in the same place the blue shift appears in all the Airs I've seen...top and left.

Again, a vibrance boost in photoshop amplifies what's there...

Not posting this to take away from your experience, but to show that while there are some acceptable levels of the shift out there, I still have yet to see a single one that displays no shift.

Be sure to click the thumbnail. Macrumors compression is awful.

I see what you mean. Maybe its not perfect after all.. Oh, the blue line is not there irl, really hard to take a decent picture.

Im definitly keeping mine, what about you, are you keeping yours?

 

[mcdj]

I see what you mean. Maybe its not perfect after all.. Oh, the blue line is not there irl, really hard to take a decent picture.

Im definitly keeping mine, what about you, are you keeping yours?

There are times I don't even think about it, but there are definitely times my eye catches it and it makes me crazy. I have until January to decide...

 

[luckylisp]

Yesterday I went to the Apple Store and brought my iPad Air with me.

Actually the only issue I can see on my screen is a right side little bit brighter than the left side. I don't see yellow tint or spin book effect but I turn paranoiac since I started reading this topic and when I check the production week which is 36.

All the screens I have seen look brighter on the right side. Also warmer on the left and cooler on the right. I have seen ones where it's more even, but never completely even.

I had one that was almost perfect, but unfortunately had a light fuzzy horizontal black line across the screen.

 

[Valinor]

Got mine today. Noticed the black line on the left but its really hard to see so I dont mind it.
But the screen does look a little bit to yellow for my taste. Not all screens are the same but isnt this a bit too much?
Next to the ipad mini 1st gen and the iphone 5:

 

[joe guillian]

Because of the Black Friday sales, I went today to Stratford (Westfield) Apple store in order to swat my iPad Air 32Gb for a 64Gb (£51 off today on the 64 Gb, so was £508) but again when swapping (the shop assistant was kind enough to keep my current iPad close to the new one in order to compare them) the result was clear enough: my current iPad is much more bright and more bluish than the out of the box one.
The iPad Air 64Gb was yellowish without spin book effect, but less even definitively than mine and less brighter. Other think I've noted is that the colors was washed out on the new iPad and less vibrant.

Finally I asked the shop assistant to swap again with my previous iPad Air...

And he had to do some stuff in order to get me back my original iPas as a new replaced iPad... Complicated.

The good news it that I got the discount on my iPad Air £41 (less than a 64Gb) even though I'm a bit disappointed to see how few are the correct screens.

So my conclusion is that now I stop the swaps, I got initially a good screen so far and will keep it.

I'll try do some pictures tomorrow so you will see it (close to iPad midi and iPad 4).

Got mine today. Noticed the black line on the left but its really hard to see so I dont mind it.
But the screen does look a little bit to yellow for my taste. Not all screens are the same but isnt this a bit too much?
Next to the ipad mini 1st gen and the iphone 5:

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[mcdj]

Got mine today. Noticed the black line on the left but its really hard to see so I dont mind it.
But the screen does look a little bit to yellow for my taste. Not all screens are the same but isnt this a bit too much?
Next to the ipad mini 1st gen and the iphone 5:

A. Don't compare your screen to different models' screens. You will drive yourself crazy.

B. Take pictures of one ipad at a time. And don't take pictures at a low angle. Take it straight on., with no ambient light from other sources

C. No one can tell you if your screen is "a bit too much". That's your call.

 

[xendula]

After getting an LTE Air on day 1 with two white artifacts beneath the screen (didn't even turn it on), and noticing eye strain after using my replacement unit which had the bookspine like defect, I had decided to wait until next spring and try again. Then, Black Friday happened, and I thought I'd try it again. My ipad 3 is considerably laggy since iOS 7 (thanks for the warning, Apple!), and I would have loved a faster, smaller and lighter device.

The first unit I bought today had a dark line along the left edge, the replacement looked better in the store, but as soon as I got home, I noticed that the left 2/3 of the screen are yellow, while the right third is perfectly white. I wasted over 2 hours in the store on just this purchase, because I had bought the Air online, so they did some kind of giftcard work-around. I have been using Apple products for years and never ever had any issues, not even with my perfect ipad3, and have to say that they are making returns extremely difficult and time-consuming. I am done, and this experience is putting me off of the brand. None of my other tablets have any issues, not even my $200 ones, so for a $800 device to have an uneven screen is unacceptable.

Anyhow, the firmware is 7.0.3 and on the back of the box it says:
iPad wifi cell 32gb silver att - this is refuting the suggested possibility that having cell vs cellular on the back makes any difference.

I will be returning it and hope they will actually refund me all my money and not have me get stuck with a giftcard now, which is what they tried last time. In the end, I will have wasted hours of my life and money for parking. Lesson learned.

 

[sflomenb]

Mine is tinted. But I hardly notice it. Definitely not worth bringing it back or anything. Hardly there.

 

[Infinite Jest]

Opened my Walmart 16 GB iPad air today to be greeted by the left half of the display being dim and urinated upon. My ipad 3 had slightly uneven yellow tinting, but this is just nasty; horribly uneven tinting and brightness distribution. Do all units have very little backlighting along the left edge in portrait?

p.s. Lol: http://olygraphy.com/ipadair/

 

[boombox15]

I want to click the place order now button for the iPad Air, but I am too scared to do so because of this thread. And if something is wrong with the one I get, the exchange process will take sometime, and I want a perfectly good one by December 20th.

Anyone think the issues are worked out by now? Should I go ahead and order?

 

[Fuelflow]

No I don't think the issue are sorted yet. I will most likely stop swapping Airs with the third I got, which had what I'd call an acceptable screen.
But, an "acceptable" screen is no way what we should accept for some $900 product.
This mean for me that Apple won't ever see my money again. iPad Airs, MacBookPro's, mini retinas, all those with low end displays, stand as a true scandal. And press medias keeping silent on these issues simply because they get Apple products for free is yet another scandal...

 

[Infinite Jest]

No I don't think the issue are sorted yet. I will most likely stop swapping Airs with the third I got, which had what I'd call an acceptable screen.
But, an "acceptable" screen is no way what we should accept for some $900 product.
This mean for me that Apple won't ever see my money again. iPad Airs, MacBookPro's, mini retinas, all those with low end displays, stand as a true scandal. And press medias keeping silent on these issues simply because they get Apple products for free is yet another scandal...

I don't know about all of that, but I'd love one of these big reviewers (i.e. notebookcheck or anandtech) to analyze a sample from a consumer batch rather than what is provided to them directly from Apple. There's no way any of them got any units remotely this bad.

 

[MLAM]

I'm deciding what to do with my third iPad Air,

Tint wise it's the best one yet but unfortunately in terms of light bleed its the worst one by far with a fairly big patch in the top left corner.

Granted iOS 7 is mostly white so it rarely butts it's head out but in video or a dark game it can be spotted.

Grrr why do Apple make it so hard for us!

 

[xendula]

I want to click the place order now button for the iPad Air, but I am too scared to do so because of this thread. And if something is wrong with the one I get, the exchange process will take sometime, and I want a perfectly good one by December 20th.

Anyone think the issues are worked out by now? Should I go ahead and order?

I personally wouldn't do it, because of the hassle you would be facing if you end up with a lousy screen.... Though I hear that other stores don't make you jump through hoops when you need to return a defective unit, like the one close to me does.

 

[bevsb2]

I want to click the place order now button for the iPad Air, but I am too scared to do so because of this thread. And if something is wrong with the one I get, the exchange process will take sometime, and I want a perfectly good one by December 20th.

Anyone think the issues are worked out by now? Should I go ahead and order?

If returns are not a problem for you, I would give it a try. I returned 3 before getting a good screen on the 4th one. This was all done over the course of one week (the 2nd didn't even leave the store) and Apple and Best Buy we're very nice to deal with. I exchanged the 1st one and the 2nd one I didn't even
take home - just got a refund. I bought and returned the 3rd one with a yellow screen at Best Buy and got the 4th and good one from the Apple store. Good luck with your decision.

 

[luckylisp]

I want to click the place order now button for the iPad Air, but I am too scared to do so because of this thread. And if something is wrong with the one I get, the exchange process will take sometime, and I want a perfectly good one by December 20th.

Anyone think the issues are worked out by now? Should I go ahead and order?

The issues aren't worked out yet, no. I would still give it a try though personally. I have exchanged quite a few of them due to various issues and my local Apple store has been great about it. Good luck. I hope you get one you're happy with.

 

[coolbass]

Most of you should consider visiting a psychotherapist to learn to resolve your issues.

 

[sflomenb]

Most of you should consider visiting a psychotherapist to learn to resolve your issues.

Yeah…

I have it on my iPad. Is it good? No. But it's not a crisis.

 

[Valinor]

If I go back to the Apple store to exchange my ipad air, do I have to make an appointment at the genius bar? Or can I just walk in and exchange it?

 

[luckylisp]

If I go back to the Apple store to exchange my ipad air, do I have to make an appointment at the genius bar? Or can I just walk in and exchange it?

You can just walk in and exchange it.

 

[runormal]

If I go back to the Apple store to exchange my ipad air, do I have to make an appointment at the genius bar? Or can I just walk in and exchange it?

In my experience if you walk into the apple store and say I want to make a return or exchange usually one of the sales people can do that right there on the spot - it might take a few minutes while you wait for a salesperson. I try to avoid interaction with the Geniuses at all cost and the above usually makes that possible...

 

[mcdj]

Most of you should consider visiting a psychotherapist to learn to resolve your issues.

Says Mr. Fish Temperature, who has been repeating more or less the exact same thing over and over for 2 years. Okaaaay.

 

[joe guillian]

Here is my screen. I took this picture with brightness at 100% and with a white pic.

As said by a lot of people here this is difficult through a picture to show the real color... When I compare my pic with my iPad it looks different, I mean more bluish in reality.

 

[smoking monkey]

Most of you should consider visiting a psychotherapist to learn to resolve your issues.

Thanks for the valuable input in helping others through this issue.

I got my 4th ipad and while it does have a black spine and a slight bit of bleeding in one corner, the screen has no yellow and is uniform, so I'm going to keep it and see how I go.

Using apps and watching movies won't be affected by the spine and I always read in landscape due to wanting a bigger font for my eyes.

Sigh, I feel I'm settling for less than I should, but I reckon after a week or so, I won't notice the spine. If it still bothers me in 6 months I'll go to the Apple store... again. But for now, I'm jumping off with Good Enough.

Although that's not really Good Enough to be honest, I'm just tired of the negative vibe from the whole experience.