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iPhone 13 Pro iPhone 13 Pro display is NOT yellow/too warm this year!!
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To be honest, side by side, I prefer my iPhone X screen to my iPhone 13 Pro. The 13 is definitely warmer and seems ever so slightly less sharp (but that might be because of the size difference). Warm screens are one of my pet peeves so I don't know, I'll have to think about this. Turning off True Tone helps a little.
I don’t have mine yet BUT my XSMax with OLED is perfect in color, not yellow at all that is washed out. (I had some iPhones with washed out yellow crap pictures, and played the lottery until I got one that was perfect before).
If I get my 13 pro max with a yellow screen I will be one Piss$d person especially if the fixes posted here don’t work. (And thank all for posting those hopefully fixes!!) Yellow crap screens bother my eyes big time.
If I get my 13 pro max with a yellow screen I will be one Piss$d person especially if the fixes posted here don’t work. (And thank all for posting those hopefully fixes!!) Yellow crap screens bother my eyes big time.
True Tone is garbage. It only ever warms the screen, it doesn't actually match the ambient light temperature. I always keep it off.
Just got a 13 Pro Max. DEFINITELY more yellow compared to my old and trusty 6 Plus. Turned off True Tone and Night Shift - still yellow. Fiddled with Color Filters (both on and off), adjusting intensity and hue - no better. I'm tending to agree more and more that it's a light source issue (i.e. that the OLED used gives off, or is calibrated to do so) a warmer light than the LCD. Although I love warm light in general, and have them scattered throughout my house, I prefer the slightly cooler tones of my 6 screen. Somehow, the colors (e.g. of the app thumbnails) just seem more vibrant, less muddied by the very faint, yellow haze evident with the 13.
I'll probably just get used to the new screen eventually, but it is kind of disappointing - and I definitely need to stay away from side by side comparisons with my 6!
I'll probably just get used to the new screen eventually, but it is kind of disappointing - and I definitely need to stay away from side by side comparisons with my 6!
I’m going to keep returning until I get a warmer 13P.
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I believe you're right - it does look to me like a light-source issue. The light illuminating the screen from behind appears yellowish. I miss the cooler light of my old phone (a 6 Plus).Yestarday I tested 15-20 new units of iphone13 in the Barcelona apple store. All of them has the screen as yellow as my iphone 12……… for all of the iphone 12 yellowish screen users: 13 is the same..don’t waste your time, it’s not a lotery, it’s OLED display..
I hope that apple fixes the problem on iphone14 because this piss yellow screen is extremly annoying..
A lot of people are saying they have a slight red tint. Looks like red tint is the new flavor this year lol.
I compared my 12 Pro to my 13 Pro. Though I never had any issue with my 12 Pro looking too warm, the 13 Pro has a cooler colored screen and is the color temperature I remember from my iPhone 8.
But to re-iterate... TURN OFF TRUE TONE. It's the source behind many of these complaints. It doesn't do anything useful.
But to re-iterate... TURN OFF TRUE TONE. It's the source behind many of these complaints. It doesn't do anything useful.
Hmm. Seems pretty consistent that the 13s are just warmer, whether it’s feedback here or even in videos. Does the Displaymate review have a video?
Don’t believe anything that comes out of display mate and Dox mouths
Received 13 mini last week. Switched from good old iphone 8, I love the size of the screen vs the size of the device, but otherwise I'm very disappointed.
Screen is **** with white being sooo off. Comparing directly with ip8 (which is supposed to be worse, old tech, crappy LCD vs awesome OLED, blah blah...), white background on 8 appears snow white, while on 13 it's... like the snow you should not eat. Comparing with MBP screen - same. Despite the whites, I feel like colors on old ip8 are more "vibrant" compared to new device.
It's sooo annoying and disappointing. Using iphones since ip4, I've never had any issues with new phone, until now.
Playing with color filters is not a solution.
Reading this and some other threads, I'm not sure anymore if it makes sense to (try to) get a replacement. Will check some local stores and compare store units with mine just to see if I had a bad luck in screen lottery or if new iphone displays are crap in general.
On a side note, I have to say that new "cinematic mode" is quite impressive. Would be even more impressive with accurate colors.
Cheers!
Screen is **** with white being sooo off. Comparing directly with ip8 (which is supposed to be worse, old tech, crappy LCD vs awesome OLED, blah blah...), white background on 8 appears snow white, while on 13 it's... like the snow you should not eat. Comparing with MBP screen - same. Despite the whites, I feel like colors on old ip8 are more "vibrant" compared to new device.
It's sooo annoying and disappointing. Using iphones since ip4, I've never had any issues with new phone, until now.
Playing with color filters is not a solution.
Reading this and some other threads, I'm not sure anymore if it makes sense to (try to) get a replacement. Will check some local stores and compare store units with mine just to see if I had a bad luck in screen lottery or if new iphone displays are crap in general.
On a side note, I have to say that new "cinematic mode" is quite impressive. Would be even more impressive with accurate colors.
Cheers!
The overall consensus seems to be that the 13 series screens are cooler temperature than the last few generations, so if yours is noticeably warm, you might have time to exchange it? Maybe there's an issue. Perhaps compare it with store models. And again, please make sure True Tone and Night Shift are off.
I have a iPhone XS that looks perfect. Last year I tried to upgrade to the 12 Pro max - played the screen lottery twice. First one was piss yellow and had very visible PWM flickering at low brightness, contrast made it seem washed out. The second one had no flickering, contrast was better, but the tint was even more yellow. So after all that crap I decided just to return it and keep my XS for another year.
Fast forward to now. I upgraded to the iPhone 13 Pro. While it is better than what I experienced last year - the whites are still far off from the truth. It's not just yellow it's like a greenish yellow tint. It's slight so even if I try to correct it with a color filter it gets overcorrected. The worst part about it is - my Macbook pro and iPad pro look identical, and the phone just looks way off. I can't trust any photos I take because it looks different on different screens.
Honestly I am really not sure how Apple advertises these phones for "Pro Photographers / Videographers" when the image / video that you view on screen cannot be trusted as accurate. I am hesitant to play screen lottery again this year, kind of at my wits end on what to do.
It would be really nice if Apple included some screen calibration settings that you could tweak or have an ICC profile like you can on a mac. Totally get that factory calibration can be a crapshoot, but give me the ability to do something about it.
It's also really disappointing that many of us have been complaining about these issues for years now and have gotten near zero press / youtube coverage. It's impossible for the iPhone 13 not to be the best thing since sliced bread when you read all the articles.
Fast forward to now. I upgraded to the iPhone 13 Pro. While it is better than what I experienced last year - the whites are still far off from the truth. It's not just yellow it's like a greenish yellow tint. It's slight so even if I try to correct it with a color filter it gets overcorrected. The worst part about it is - my Macbook pro and iPad pro look identical, and the phone just looks way off. I can't trust any photos I take because it looks different on different screens.
Honestly I am really not sure how Apple advertises these phones for "Pro Photographers / Videographers" when the image / video that you view on screen cannot be trusted as accurate. I am hesitant to play screen lottery again this year, kind of at my wits end on what to do.
It would be really nice if Apple included some screen calibration settings that you could tweak or have an ICC profile like you can on a mac. Totally get that factory calibration can be a crapshoot, but give me the ability to do something about it.
It's also really disappointing that many of us have been complaining about these issues for years now and have gotten near zero press / youtube coverage. It's impossible for the iPhone 13 not to be the best thing since sliced bread when you read all the articles.
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I was in the same boat last year with the 12 Pro max. I played the screen lottery three times and returned all of them. My iPhone X display was more vibrant, sharper, and better white-balanced than the three 12s that I had. Also, the three 12s exhibited marked and very noticeable differences between them regarding the screen calibration. Some were more yellowish than the others, and some were greener, etc. It was evident that Apple was confronting quality inconsistencies with the screen or their tolerance thresholds levels were that wide. Nonetheless, I decided to go for the new 13 Pro Max, expecting this time to be the right one.
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