Yes your mini does, Apple said they all do. Post a video taken in at least 60fps please
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Apple Says 'Jelly Scrolling' on iPad Mini 6 is Normal Behavior for LCD Screens
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Hypernormalization. It’s almost everywhere in civilizations where the people literally have no remedy for the perpetual abuse by leadership (or corporations).
The computer industry in specific has always used special pleading to excuse endless defects and bad design. They’ve always had an army of tech geeks helping them normalize bugs and bad design by attacking users for being “clueless”, etc.
…and you late to the party.
That has been typed 100+ times in this thread. It’s not even funny.
Actually it kinda is funny. Apple deserves to hear it every day.
No. It's a problem. But it's a problem that people have dealt with for over half a century. Old B&W televisions and CRT monitors had it for decades. Same with most LCD TVs and monitors (except the high refresh rate ones). (24 FPS projected theatrical film doesn't, but has flicker strobing and/or motion blur in exchange.)
If you carefully look for it, it's a problem... at first. After awhile, almost nobody notices it any more, except for video specialists, who hate most everything else about LCD displays (bad color gamut, poor contrast, etc.) anyway.
So this will blow over, and Apple will sell a boatload of mini 6's, even to some complainers, who will move on to some other engineering trade-off to complain about.
My Jelly Scroling was pretty bad. But the one tipping point if im being honest as there was no way it was close to being as bright as my iPad Air 4. If I would put the iPad Air 4 brightness down to about 90 percent then they were about the same. Sadly returned to apple over the 2 issues.
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And for the record I've more or less have bought every TFT (Active Matrix) LCD and accompanying tech LCD's from apple. I think the first Clamshell iBooks being the first and have never seen or heard of Jelly Scroll until this past week.
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The issue is that it’s obvious on the mini 6 when compared to mini 5. No one is saying it’s not normal it’s why is it so apparent and how did the decision to relocate the component even make it into a shipping product.
I have a Mini 4, I never noticed anything like it and I yesterday looked at it carefully again both in landscape and portrait and nothing!.
Which proves that most people get so used to this artifact, which appears in some direction or another on all 60 Hz LCD devices, that they never see it anymore or stop noticing it.
They probably thought we wouldn’t care enough. It’s a good thing forums like this exist. im sure some apple employees read this stuff.
Paying a premium price should get you a premium device.
That doesn't help if you were looking forward to a new Mini though.
I’ve had a mini 4 since launch and I’ve only just noticed this in landscape, having used the device for years in landscape..
Yes, it does, clearly you don’t realise that everybody’s visual part of their brain process things differently, some can’t tell the difference between 1080 and 2160 resolutions regardless of eyesight, some can’t see the difference between 30FPS and 60FPS or 120FPS, and some can do these things with varying amounts of perception and this jelly scrolling is very likely going to be another issue that some will see, and some will not.
Unfortunately the visual part of your brain isn’t as good as others to see this issue, but also, fortunately the visual part of your brain isn’t as good as others to see this issue.
Got to play around with a Mini 6 today and jello is more pronounced where horizontal lines with scrolling look like they're angled at ~30 degrees while other devices are more like ~5 degrees so minimal. On top of that, brightness is low and image quality doesn't seem like a premium display on a $500+ product.
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I’ve never seen anything like what my iPad Mini display was doing PERIOD. So I’m obv not use to seeing and have gotten use to it or desensitized in anyway. Maybe a little bit would have been ok but it was nothing I was ever going to be acclimated to PERIOD. Ok sorry for shoutin!!!
I was about to type the same thing, good thing I checked!…and you late to the party.
That has been typed 100+ times in this thread. It’s not even funny.
I still can't see anything. If it really exists it can't be significant enough to bother with. I also use my mini almost all the time in landscape.
I use my iPad Air 4 in landscape if I can, and it does exhibit the ‘jelly’ effect, but I have to really look for it to really notice it. Before this news broke, I don’t even notice it. I really don’t see what’s the whole commotion about. Besides, it’s not like I can read anything properly when the contents are moving fast.