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iPhone 6 Screen with Yellow tint

2 phones with same issue

I thought I was being paranoid till I saw this thread. I returned one phone yesterday which had warmer white. I compared my phone with at least 10 phones before I returned my phone. I bought another which has the same issue albeit it's not as warm but I still can see it.

I spoke with several apple associates including a couple of experts and they couldn't see it. Some experts. One of the associates said that the settings and software on the store phones is different to show the full capability of the screen. Not sure how this person was even hired or keeping their job.

I don't have issues like others have of variable tint. Mine seems even throughout. I am not sure why it is so hard for others to notice even when two phones are kept side by side. I could see it without any comparison.

Does anyone know which vendor is supplying screens for the iPhone 6. I am surprised that I couldn't find a single phone in the store with warmer colors. All store phones were cooler (blue).

Should I even try keeping the phone's screen on for a few hours. Doesn't seem logical.

Thanks,
Kamlesh.
 
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TroyBoy30 said:
Omg. Do some research and come back. Professionals do not calibrate to what they think is correct. The tune to an industry standard. It's either correct or it ain't
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Just because the industry is jumping off the bridge you will to I guess.

I have calibrated TV's for years, and all the so called test equipment, and charts to calibrate to all look like shi! To me and many others.

Every time I calibrate to some so called pro settings, the picture always looks washed out and blurry, again like shi!.

Every time I calibrate to my own eyes, an actual white, non blurry screen, when people come over they can't believe it and praise my TV's.

I don't know what blind baste! Made and told this world that a washed out blurry picture is a standard. But to follow that, you have to be blind.

Also to the others, waiting does not help, I purchased my 4s a good 4 months after Release and my first one was yellow, returned to another store and swapped with a good one.

Don't settle for some yellowish crap screen, if it does not bother you then keep it, but I hate yellow screens, every Android I personally ever purchased was perfect, never the lottery like apple and we pay a lot for apple products so get what you pay for.
 
iPhone 6 Screen with Yellow tint

There are three or four different LCD manufacturers for iPhone 6. Each manufacturer has their own technology and process and all screens by the same manufacturer will display similar characteristics. Some will be yellow. Others (like mine) will be colder white but have dust under the screen, dimmer at the top, and show diagonal lines for the in-cell touch sensors when viewed at a certain angle. Apple can't get enough panels from a single manufacturer so they use multiple. Unfortunately Apple never has and still does not bother to enforce uniform colour calibration across the manufacturers it sources displays from. In the end you just have to pick a poison and hopefully learn to love it. On a side note that's why it always cracks me up when I read an article by places like DisplayMate that test these screens. Their test results are utterly meaningless because they don't say or even know which manufacturer made the LCD in the phone they happened to test with and there is no way for a customer to know either.
 
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My 6 is "bluer" than my 4S, but it's only noticeable when they're side-by-side. Neither of them look yellow.
 
TroyBoy30 said:
Omg. Do some research and come back. Professionals do not calibrate to what they think is correct. The tune to an industry standard. It's either correct or it ain't
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That's not what I said and you still aren't getting it.

I'm saying don't put so much faith in a man made standard.

I don't care what professionals call correct. If it doesn't look good to me, it's incorrect, regardless of what the professionals say. Eve if it 100% exactly matches what the top notch professionals in the world declare to be the master standard, I'll still take it back and get something I find pleasing to my eye, even if the standard Gods declare my phone to be out of compliance. Won't bother me even a little bit.

For you, if you didn't think it looked good, and a professional told you it's actually correct, you'd convince yourself to like it. That's called being easily manipulated.
 
Pretty upset with my current 6+. My original shipped iPhone had the perfect screen except for a black blotch on the bottom right corner. Looked like some spilled ink. Anyways with the replacement right when I powered it on I knew it was tainted. It's not heavily yellow, but extremely noticeable when placed next to any of my idevices.
 
dfran1 said:
Just because the industry is jumping off the bridge you will to I guess.

I have calibrated TV's for years, and all the so called test equipment, and charts to calibrate to all look like shi! To me and many others.

Every time I calibrate to some so called pro settings, the picture always looks washed out and blurry, again like shi!.

Every time I calibrate to my own eyes, an actual white, non blurry screen, when people come over they can't believe it and praise my TV's.

I don't know what blind baste! Made and told this world that a washed out blurry picture is a standard. But to follow that, you have to be blind.

Also to the others, waiting does not help, I purchased my 4s a good 4 months after Release and my first one was yellow, returned to another store and swapped with a good one.

Don't settle for some yellowish crap screen, if it does not bother you then keep it, but I hate yellow screens, every Android I personally ever purchased was perfect, never the lottery like apple and we pay a lot for apple products so get what you pay for.
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im so sorry that an accurate display looks like crap to you. that does not mean its not accurate. it simply means your eyes are screwed up. most prefer a blown out screen. you can blame the tvs set to tourch mode in your local best buy. they want there sets to stand out. want to see an inaccurate display? pick up any oled phone
 
TroyBoy30 said:
im so sorry that an accurate display looks like crap to you. that does not mean its not accurate. it simply means your eyes are screwed up. most prefer a blown out screen. you can blame the tvs set to tourch mode in your local best buy. they want there sets to stand out. want to see an inaccurate display? pick up any oled phone
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Absolutely correct. It's like moths to a flame analogy. I know a lot of people who don't understand why or what a properly setup display is supposed to look like and they prefer the box store setting. I'd rather watch my movies as the director intended. That being said there is no law against liking your screens cool and not properly calibrated. It would be nice if these phones came with an adjustment setting instead of just brightness.
 
TroyBoy30 said:
im so sorry that an accurate display looks like crap to you. that does not mean its not accurate. it simply means your eyes are screwed up. most prefer a blown out screen. you can blame the tvs set to tourch mode in your local best buy. they want there sets to stand out. want to see an inaccurate display? pick up any oled phone
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If oled is accurate then you are definitely blind.

I had a note 2 AMOLED and that was great like the rest of my phones, tablets, ect.. it certainly was not no washed out blurry yellow.
 
you kinda contridicted yourself there? do you agree or not?

oleds are def over saturated and not accurate. the note 4 will give you the option to change the screen to how you want it
 
Here's my replacement compared to a another iPhone 6+ same specs.
 

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Here's my replacement compared to a another iPhone 6+ same specs.
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you should have not posted that, some on here will tell you that yellow crap screen is professionally calibrated, but what they won't tell you is, 1950's standard
 
dfran1 said:
you should have not posted that, some on here will tell you that yellow crap screen is professionally calibrated, but what they won't tell you is, 1950's standard
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Haha funny thing is I do professional video work and color correction with calibrated displays. I do not find this yellow tint "pro" at all. It's just so dull and hurts my eyes mentally.

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michael31986 said:
I think some screens are just different temperatures. apple should let us change that.
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This would save them $millions$ from returns.

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Rockies said:
Hey look, there is my yellow screen. It sucks.
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On the phone with applecare so lets see how this turns out. I don't mind keeping the phone if they deny me, but I'll just avoid looking at anything nice, white, and bright to remind me.
 
I have a tad of yellow, but mainly just not sharp like the others I have seen. I think my 5 has a sharper display. Plus my 6 has three dead pixels.....
 

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I have both the 6 & 6+. I also notice the 6's screen is slightly yellowish compares to my 6+ but not too bad though.
 
Blues look purple on my phone. Not enough blue and hence more yellow. Blue and yellow being complimentary. My pics looks purple, the sky isn't blue like on the iphone 4s I upgraded from. I am annoyed as well because I work in imaging and very color sensitive.

Imagine your facebook icon and everything there looks purple or faded blue.

I hear the OP. Should I return or ask for replacement?
 
i just want to ask what do you guys think of this.

my Six + has no yellow tint. cool white all over the screen. not half yellow or half bluish or pink hue etc. just all perfect white.

no Dead pixels either. tested on both solid black and white backgrounds.

my issue is about the screen leak. there is a VERY slight backlight bleeding on the mute button side. its not really very visible. and during movies or browsing or whatever you will not notice it even if the movie has black bars on the top & button and full brightness on. only when you put a solid black background you will notice it.

the gold frame also has this very tiny white spot on the left lower corner on the frame.

usually, as long as the screen is perfect for me. no dead pixels or screen leak. I am ok with the body as I believe the phone most importantly is the screen. " to me anyway "

I have never seen an iphone since I phone 4s without a screen leak "backlight leak" . every phone I try whatever used from local stores or I buy have some sort of screen leak from a side of the phone or even more.

usually in the 5/5s is from the top. this probably the least backlight bleeding I have seen on a phone but I am still OCD about it. what should I do ?
 
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My Iphone 4(left) compared to Iphone 6(right).
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Also, I noticed something while using the iphone6 on max brightness for 40min, it just suddenly dimmed to about 40% while browsing but the brightness is still maxed(btw, auto bright off). So i turned off the phone and after checking the brightness at 40% it looks dimmer than iphone 5 and 4 at the same settings. My iphone5 has that yellow tint too :(
Iphone4(left) and Iphone 6(right)
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Iphone5(left) and Iphone 6(right)
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ip5-ip6 the ip6 at the same settings seems dimmer after what happened
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mine is bluish . no yellow screen. however, people should know that this is not a defect and its screen calibration color. if you jailbreak the iphone when its available. purchase a tweak called color profile. it will make your screen bluish as much as you want. if your only issue is yellow. then do not worry about it at all.
 
dfran1 said:
you should have not posted that, some on here will tell you that yellow crap screen is professionally calibrated, but what they won't tell you is, 1950's standard
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no one ever said any such thing. i simply said people dont know a correct screen when they see it. i never once said the world apple or yellow so stop putting words in my mouth
 
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