OLED is inherently not perfect, but these kinds of color shifts and non-uniformity issues seem more prevalent than we are used to from Apple
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iPhone 13 Pro iPhone 13 Pro screen uniformity issue
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These panels on these phones are ridiculous this year considering they cost too $$$ I wanted to get my silver exchanged for the gold but I’m afraid that I may get a worse screen.
I don’t blame you sister. My first choice was silver , it was damaged out of the box so I returned it. Then bought was available my second choice color black. Pink tint lower half of screen. Third one sierra blue since that’s all that was available was acceptable to me. Slight pink shift right upper side. Roll on the iPhone 14 in silver 🤣👌🏼
can you purchase and then return within the holiday return period if it's not up to your standards?
There seems to be the same issues happen with Samsung and Google phones. People have posted pictures of their display issues and they don't loom any better then what Apple is providing. I honestly think Apple is working on a replacement for OLED and they are aware of the issues that people are seeing. It could be that this is just the way to is with OLED displays on phones.
Partially true. But last time I saw a red tint on half a screen on a galaxy device was when I bought a Note 4 when they first came out. The next issue was a green tint on a note 20 ultra. Which was sorted after one replacement.
What we don't know is how many displays suffer from uniformity and tinting. People posting here are a very small subset of users. I think with anything mass produced it increases the chances of having certain number fall below standard. Apple can accept certain defect rate. I am not sure what that rate would be but I suspect that it is not very large.
Thing is I’m looking at my screen directly on-axis and seeing a color gradient instead of one uniform color, so I know it has nothing to do with the inherent disadvantages of OLED.
I suspect it is quite common, probably the majority of people just have poor eyesight so they can’t see the issues/Apple can get away with fooling them using an inferior display with poor quality control.
But your guess is as good as mine, say Apple’s supplier produces 10,000,000 OLED panels for iPhone 13 Pro Max and 0.1% of these panels have colour uniformity defects, that’s still 10,000 units.
I’d hazard a guess 90 percent plus of iPhone 13 pro max panels are like this. It’s a “character “ of the panels used. 😂
Last time there was an furor over panel issue / quality was with the one plus 8 pro and and s20 galaxy devices - green tint. Many were effected if not all. A software update eventually slightly masked the issue and made it less evident.
indeed. My wife’s 12 pro max had a true tone that resembled nightshift on full whack. 🤣 she didn’t care.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple eventually tried to cover up this hardware issue with a software patch too. It wouldn’t be the first time they did it, remember the whole iPhone 6S secret throttling scandal?
On a more positive note, I do feel these issues could have been mitigated from the get go with proper screen calibration. So one half of the screen has a red tint, and the other half has a green tint, can’t you just calibrate them using a white color baseline and balance out the non-uniformity? ?
I missed that saga. I was out of the iOS scene at the time. Some of the “good” screen are all pink tinted hence one can’t see the irregular pink tint patch here or there. 😂 I remember my first 13PM was pink tint all over. That wasn’t the reason I returned it though. It was due to stainless steel band damage.
PS I could be wrong about my first 13PM but I not recall any screen issues that popped out at me like uniformity.
It’s probably not even possible to fix via software unless you have someone manually calibrate that software by checking the phone’s color deviation in person. Since you know, the display shows two different hues, and the severity and orientation of these defects are pretty much different for everyone. A software fix for a hardware defect is like trying to slap a band-aid on a bullet wound.
The thing about calibrations, you need a source to understand how to calibrate. It seems that the uniformity issue is not always the same for every panel.
Well at least there’s dark mode when I have that on my screen looks pretty uniform kind of like an illusion 😂
The fact that the intensity and location of the red tint varies across a myriad of devices owned by the users in this forum, makes me think that this is not born from software issues nor it can be fixed by a few lines of code.
There’s only two way to way to approach this now if you are unable to skip the 13 series, ditch the 13 Pro series and go to the regular 13 (almost all users here face tinting are on their Pro devices) or keep returning until you get the perfect display for YOUR eyes.
There’s only two way to way to approach this now if you are unable to skip the 13 series, ditch the 13 Pro series and go to the regular 13 (almost all users here face tinting are on their Pro devices) or keep returning until you get the perfect display for YOUR eyes.
I agree with the 90%+ figure that you floated, and I'd be willing to bet money on that. What are the chances that all 8 phones from different stores on different dates (only similarity is 1 TB storage and carrier unlocked; I tried Graphite, SB, Silver) had the same screen quality issue as a coincidence? The likelihood of me getting that unlucky to only get faulty units seems incredibly low to me, so there must be a widespread screen uniformity issue with these phones.
Yep. It looks pretty uniform. But you know those grey test photos we all posted? If you look closely you’ll see an ever so slight tint of green on dark areas where the red pink tint isn’t normally visible. It’s so faint it’s not worth mentioning. 🤣
Why do I have a feeling Apple lowered quality standards on purpose to deal with supply shortages. For what it’s worth, I also got the 1 TB model both times, 13 Pro Max. From two different Apple stores because one closer to my home had it in stock at the time.
Yes I see that faint green the only fix is dark mode and even that is not that great for some ppl I for one only use dark mode cause I hate the light one so you would that wouldn’t be an issue for but just knowing it’s there bugs the crap out me 😂