Apple TV's New iPhone-Based Color Balance Feature Coming to 2015 and Newer Models

[ErikGrim]

For me it doesn't trigger at all. Kept it close, far away, lights off/on. Nothing.

Finally worked for me after many aborted attempts, even with lights off. Results looked good though.

But bigger problem: Looks like this update broke HomePod connection :/

 

[LarsN.]

Calibration doesn’t work for me either. If I start the popup on the phone let’s me prepare the calibration. I am instructed to hold the phone near the tv, but nothing happens. After a while the phone says it was unsuccessful and if I would like to try again. If I press retry it immediately goes to the second screen where I should turn the phone to the tv, but the Apple TV doesn’t show a different screen and is hanging in the process.

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong? Am I holding my phone the wrong way?

 

[lhammer610]

and we are talking about LG not Sony.

True. But Sony uses LG OLED displays.
I remain unconvinced that LG is any better calibrated out of the box than Sony or other brands based on my experience with LG and reviews of LG sets.

 

[Jus711]

Tried this out but it was extremely sensitive to glare or something. It was almost impossible to trigger, and when it did it would never get past more than red or green before resetting.

Yeah you have to hold it really still, it’s hard to get but I eventually did

 

[doc james]

Most likely because it uses the more sophisticated camera system of FaceID to collaborate.

My iPhone SE2 is looking increasingly hampered. No AirTags nor Apple TV calibration...

 

[Jus711]

Calibration doesn’t work for me either. If I start the popup on the phone let’s me prepare the calibration. I am instructed to hold the phone near the tv, but nothing happens. After a while the phone says it was unsuccessful and if I would like to try again. If I press retry it immediately goes to the second screen where I should turn the phone to the tv, but the Apple TV doesn’t show a different screen and is hanging in the process.

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong? Am I holding my phone the wrong way?

You have to hold it really close (like almost pressed against the TV) and still for several seconds, it took me several times on both TV’s I tried it on

 

[b1gted]

Looks like it’s a smart feature. My LG TV doesn’t need color balance View attachment 1760824

If I had to guess, the reason yours is saying "Not Required" is because you are running in Dolby Vision by default. Dolby Vision already calibrates the screen to what it should be for viewing in Dolby Vision.

 

[mjtomlin71]

If it's anything like the way TCL does there so called "calibration" using the iPhone and calibration app, it will be a joke. If anyone truly thinks they will get an accurate picture using an iPhone to calibrate the ATV, I got some swamp land to sell you. You really need a good meter, calman software and a pattern generator to calibrate the tv, not this to adjust the colors on the ATV.

Apple has been in the color calibration business for many, many, many years, starting with ColorSync. It was the basis for starting the International Color Consortium. If anyone can find a fairly accurate way to recalibrate output for a TV using an iPhone, it would be Apple.

Don't make assumptions based some half-assed app from another company.

 

[mjtomlin71]

I'm going to have to see some reviews on this feature before I use it. I've already got my TV calibrated with a Spears and Munsil Blu-Ray. I don't necessarily trust Apple to not jack up some of it's internal picture parameters to get me a "good" picture that no longer looks natural. The last thing I want is Apple doing it's own version of 'Vivid'.


You might want to try manually setting your ATV to 4K SDR and see if it then becomes an option.

Does not touch any settings on your TV. It only adjusts the output of the AppleTV.

 

[vipergts2207]

Does not touch any settings on your TV. It only adjusts the output of the AppleTV.

Right, but the TV has already been calibrated. So changes the ATV makes to its output may reduce the accuracy of the picture rather than increase it. We'll have to see what testing shows.

 

[ignatius345]

I wonder if this will work with video projectors

 

[N1jl]

Worked wonderfully well on my HD boxes but am having trouble getting it to work on my 4K box connected to a Samsung Frame. Any ideas would be much appreciated?

Thanks

 

[MacBH928]

Does this calibrate to your room's lightening? I think colour should be calibrated to the intentions of the director of the show.

 

[gaximus]

Please bring this to Mac. I have two monitors that I cannot get to match.

 

[LarsN.]

You have to hold it really close (like almost pressed against the TV) and still for several seconds, it took me several times on both TV’s I tried it on

Thanks got it to work by resetting network data. But now it’s just calibrating halfway through. Can’t get it to fully calibrate because it says colors of my TV can’t be read.

I don’t like this tool very much as is isn’t working very well.

 

[iToph]

I would love to calibrate my home theater projector like this. That would be so awesome since I only use it with ATV 4K.

 

[Kram Sacul]

my LG OLED CX won't need this

Or anyone that’s serious about color calibration.

 

[longtom]

I wonder if this will work with video projectors

I would also need it with my projector/beamer.
But till now it works not this way.
If someone figure it out how to do, please post. ;-)

 

[anticipate]

Ideally. You should turn on “Match Dynamic Range” so that regular content isn’t in Dolby vision and DV content is. Then calibrate using the new feature so that regular content looks correct too.

Thanks good tip!