iPhone 12 Pro iPhone 12 Pro display overly warm?

[Taz Mangus]

Have another thread on the same subject.

Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!

Reports are already surfacing of a classic annual tradition in iPhone land - the dumping of yellow tinted reject screens on unsuspecting consumers. This happens literally every year, since the iPhone 3G. Every. Year. without fail. Same tint. Same excuses from Apple apologists. The fact is, not...

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[M5RahuL]

Actually, measurements say that they are almost down to the point to 6500K. But that the displays seem to lack slightly in red and blue, which apparently seems to be the new trend in displays (at least for Samsung displays). See here (Starts at around 4:40):

Also Erica says that the displays seem to be almost exactly the same as the ones for the Note 20 Ultra and Fold 2. Which leads credence that the iPhone 12 / 12 Pro models have Samsung displays.

I don’t know.. I recently bought a new Note 20 Ultra directly from Samsung, and its screen is so.. so much better ( sharpness, clarity, and whites ) compared to my PM, it’s amazing! The Note’s screen is identical to my XS !!

 

[Bstephens]

I don’t know.. I recently bought a new Note 20 Ultra directly from Samsung, and its screen is so.. so much better ( sharpness, clarity, and whites ) compared to my PM, it’s amazing! The Note’s screen is identical to my XS !!

Can you take some comparison pics?

 

[MacinMan]

I'm chiming in here as well, I noticed my iPhone 12 pro max is also warmer, but I'm comparing it to an iPad Air 2, which is several generations old. Since I traded in my 7 plus to get money off the new 12 pro max, I no longer have that to compare with. However, I do have experience and training in television, so I am used to cinema calibrations being much warmer, and in turn colors do look more natural under the warmer tint. The piece of information I lack is this being my first OLED display vs LCD. NOW, I did used to have a Plasma TV, which would be closer to OLED technology vs LCD because both generate their own light vs a backlight. I think what I might do is download an image of the white boot screen to the phone with the black apple since the new phones no longer have it, and look at the tint that way.

With all things considered, the display doesn't look distorted in any way, as in wrong colors, etc, and in dark mode things look fine. It's more as I said, not having experience with OLED until now, to know what they are supposed to look like. I did turn off true tone, that really makes it yellow, to the point it's not natural. It's almost like nightshift.

By the way for those comparing blueish tint to warm, especially when talking LCD: I think part of that is because of the LED backlighting that makes an LCD have that harsher tone at times because of the color of the LEDs vs a display such as CRT, Plasma, and OLED that generate their own light per pixel.

 

[MacinMan]

Here is some more information I came up with my own testing.

1. Apple has indeed used a warmer white balance on the 12 model panels
2. in low light True tone does exaggerate the yellow tint. However, when introducing daylight, or cool white lighting / sunlight to the sensor, the screen brightens up and turns a more appropriate color tint for that particular lighting environment. This leads me to believe that true tone, and the panel are operating correctly, and for whatever reason the true tone sensor is simply having trouble with low lighting. Turning off True Tone sets the display to a very nice warm white that's not overly yellow.

The general feedback I've gotten when trying to talk sense into the majority of people complaining about this issues is mainly they are convinced their phone is broken and basically Apple has ripped them off, and there isn't anything wrong with True tone, etc.

I will say this, IF the display is overly yellow, WITHOUT true tone on to the point it's really yellow vs a warm white color,then you may have problems and a defective phone. IF the display responds to lighting with TT on and the tint changes based on lighting, and IF turning off TT returns the display to a nice warm white balance that ISN'T Yellow, but warmer than blue. Then your phone is fine as far as I can tell based on Apple's new design.

My own 12 pro Max behaves as above, and being used to warmer displays. I consider my phone just fine.