Amen. I actually made a point to prove what you said, I put the brightness of my pro max down to zero , took a picture of the black settings screen and it was all green.
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Apple Investigating Display Issues With iPhone 12 Models, Including Flickering and Green/Gray Glow
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Just played that video on my Note 20 ultra. It also didn’t show total true black during that segment of the video. Both devices under set and used under similar conditions .
If this is happening when taking pics of evenly lit areas say Like a wall in your home, then it’s definitely an issue. But if there are any bright point light sources, like car lights or street lights, in the picture then it’s just lens flares. It’s a hardware issue with the lens design inherent to most top end phones including Apple and Samsung. Coming from Note 10 + I’d say it’s more noticeable in iPhone 12 Pro Max. Happens even with professional dslr cameras with Some lenses.
I guess Apple just wants us to settle with what we’ve got. How incredibly frustrating
I’m in the latest 14.5 beta with the 12 mini and the flickering has gotten awful! I see it all the time in Tweetbot6 dark mode when scrolling with videos.. thought it was only that app but the other night it did it in Apples Photos app. I want to know if I need to get this phone replaced or if they’re still supposedly going to fix this with a software update?
I feel like this is a bigger issue that Apple is putting off as long as they can due to the pandemic and probably the shortage on parts.
I think it actually made mine worse. Now black pixels won’t even turn off; they just turn a slightly darker green.
EDIT: I sincerely apologize; apparently, I was still on Beta 1. Beta 2 has, indeed, fixed the issue (for the most part); I still get some flicker every so often.
EDIT: I sincerely apologize; apparently, I was still on Beta 1. Beta 2 has, indeed, fixed the issue (for the most part); I still get some flicker every so often.
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You clearly have no single clue what software can do to a device, software engineer here speaking.
There are separate issues going on. The slight green glow / raised blacks that people are complaining about with iPhones can likely be fixed with software.
The other issues such as uneven tint or terrible backlight bleed (can look like green / gray glow for lack of a better term, I know OLEDs have no backlight) on some OLEDs are defects. Such as when you turn on night shift on an Android device and half of the screen is very orange and the other half is just "warm". Or when using an iPhone 12 in a dark room and half of the screen is lit up gray / green / streaks and the other half is pure black. That's a defect.
How about the black blotches and gray / green streaks on the LG V30 on dark backgrounds, heck even the old Sony PS Vita OLED had black blotching effect? These are hardware issues. Why would my replacement LG V30 and Pixel 2 XL not have uniformity issues like this but the originals did?