Other Eye-strain while using iPhone X and up

[MICHAELSD]

I'm glad Apple is now starting to address the PWM issue.
The iPhone 16 Plus works for me without the PWM button. The iPhone 17 (Pro) can't be any worse.

Oddly the standard iPhones are usually better than the Pro models in terms of pure measured modulations, so that may still be true this generation.

 

[PwmMen]

@dannyh5319
I am from Germany, here is Thursday morning. Tomorrow is Friday.😎

 

[MICHAELSD]

The toggle looks like it makes a positive impact in this review:

Here’s to hoping the only perceptible flicker is a small essential dip to sync with the OLED’s refresh rate. 🤞

It does also help that PWM is at least becoming more mainstream and being mentioned in more reviews than usual.

 

[Jensend]

It is disappointing when content creators do minimal/no research about something like this before highlighting it in their video.

I agree.
Unfortunately, the rest of your comment is wrong. Every pixel on an OLED screen has the same pulse width. PWM only adjusts global brightness, not per-pixel brightness. Also, the pulse depth is always 100% (it drops to pure black).

Pulse Width for OLED is kind of equivalent to to adjusting the backlight on an LCD that doesn't have local dimming. It's a global multiplier for individual pixel brightness.

Plasma displays use different pulse widths and frequency on individual pixels. I believe they function more like how you incorrectly believe OLED displays function.

 

[uacd]

Bad news. No DC dimming we hoped for!

It does some sort of smoothing judging by that pic, though I don't quite understand

UPD: sorry I didn't see it has alredy been posted, gotta check next time.

UPD2X: as a recovery for posting what was already posted, here is a video I found where they tell in better details about Apple's PWM smoothing approach. Enable subtitles and English translation for your convenience, I myself am not proficient in Chinese

 

[uacd]

So far I’ve only seen the base 17 and Air in videos, is there any possibility that the 17 Pro/Pro Max could offer a better implementation of this? I’m not as sensitive as others on here and have been able to use my 16 Pro Max for the last year with only the occasional issue here and there but overall it has been a good experience for me.

I don't think so. Apple explicitly advertises it as the same display across the line w/o any difference