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Iphone 8 display worse than 7?

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Pelea

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i'm currently comparing my iphone 7 to my new iphone 8 and i've noticed that the iphone 8 is significantly darker than the iphone 7 on full brightness.

i've checked the following

- night shift
- auto brightness
- true tone
- reduce white point

and all settings are off on both phones.

Does the iphone 8 have a dimmer display than the 7..?
 
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Pelea said:
i'm currently comparing my iphone 7 to my new iphone 8 and i've noticed that the iphone 8 is significantly darker than the iphone 7 on full brightness.

i've checked the following

- night shift
- auto brightness
- true tone
- reduce white point

and all settings are off on both phones.

Does the iphone 8 have a dimmer display than the 7..?
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Hope not. I thought the 7 screen, despite marketing hype, was not as bright as the previous generation.
 
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Agreed, it's not as bright. I compared multiple ones at the store. Even changing true tone, auto bright, etc...it did not look as bright as the 7. And yes, the 6 was the brightest out of all of them.
 
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Under the same criteria as the OP, mine is about the same brightness as my SE, maybe just a tad more. I want to say my SE wasn't as bright as my 6 before that, but I don't recall.
 
I had the same problem when I updated to iOS 11. Make sure you have “reduce white point” turned off

To check do this

Settings —> General —> accessibility —> display accommodations —> make sure reduce white point is toggled off.

It was automatically turned on my phone.
 
this is actually great news. if my wife gets the 8. her phone wont keep me up all night as she likes the brightness at 100 and screen up
 
hasanahmad said:
this is actually great news. if my wife gets the 8. her phone wont keep me up all night as she likes the brightness at 100 and screen up
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If your wife deliberately uses her phone at 100% brightness in a dark room, whilst you're trying to sleep, you may have a conversation to have.

Unless you're joking and it went over my head. :D
 
Newtons Apple said:
My 7+ and 8+ screens look very much the same a bit better as far as color but that is is personal preference.
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so you're saying iphone 8s have a darker display than 8+s? (i'm talking about 100% brightness, not 50% or 0%)
 
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Pelea said:
so you're saying iphone 8s have a darker display than 8+s? (i'm talking about 100% brightness, not 50% or 0%)
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I am saying my 7+ and 8+ screens with all defaults adjustments off and both at 70% screen brightness, look very close to the same. I prefer the color on the 8+ a but more but that is just my preference.
 
Newtons Apple said:
I am saying my 7+ and 8+ screens with all defaults adjustments off and both at 70% screen brightness, look very close to the same. I prefer the color on the 8+ a but more but that is just my preference.
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for the 3rd time, i'm talking about 100% brightness
 
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I just slid the brightness level from all the way from the left (dark) to all the way to the right (on high) and it’s very bright. Absolutely no issues. I have to tone it down quite a bit
 
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janeauburn said:
Hope not. I thought the 7 screen, despite marketing hype, was not as bright as the previous generation.
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FoxD said:
Agreed, it's not as bright. I compared multiple ones at the store. Even changing true tone, auto bright, etc...it did not look as bright as the 7. And yes, the 6 was the brightest out of all of them.
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This is the primary reason why I never upgraded my 6 to the 6s or 7, despite my desire for 3D touch and the camera upgrades. My iPhone 6 has such an incredible and bright display, it's hands down the best display I've ever had on a portable device. Every time I've compared it to a next gen iPhone I've been extremely disappointed with the dimmer displays and washed out color.

Sad to hear that the 8 is even worse than the 7.
 
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Kavik said:
This is the primary reason why I never upgraded my 6 to the 6s or 7, despite my desire for 3D touch and the camera upgrades. My iPhone 6 has such an incredible and bright display, it's hands down the best display I've ever had on a portable device. Every time I've compared it to a next gen iPhone I've been extremely disappointed with the dimmer displays and washed out color.

Sad to hear that the 8 is even worse than the 7.
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I too had a 6 with just an amazing display. Super bright, colors really popped. My 8 panel is nice, and is nicer than my SE, but it's not as much of an improvement over the SE as the SE was a downgrade from the 6, so I guess the 8 is not as nice as the 6.
 
puma1552 said:
I too had a 6 with just an amazing display. Super bright, colors really popped. My 8 panel is nice, and is nicer than my SE, but it's not as much of an improvement over the SE as the SE was a downgrade from the 6, so I guess the 8 is not as nice as the 6.
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Sounds like you are really used to what you had before, and having a harder time adjusting to the calibration of the new phone.
 
BasicGreatGuy said:
Sounds like you are really used to what you had before, and having a harder time adjusting to the calibration of the new phone.
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I'm still pretty happy with the 8, has the most even back lighting of any phone I've had and no nasty tint gradients and is definitely better than my SE in terms of color saturation, black levels, as well as being a tiny bit brighter. But I do admit that the SE screen was so bad compared to the 6 in terms of colors and brightness that I expected the screen on the 8 to blow it away like the 6, but that isn't the case. Oh well, my 8 is still a keeper for sure - got a good one in the Apple quality control lottery.
 
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