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iPhone SE Hardware "Issues"

What "issues" does your iPhone SE have?

  • Screen yellowing

    Votes: 30 21.4%

  • Uneven backlight

    Votes: 14 10.0%

  • Loose/rattling buttons

    Votes: 42 30.0%

  • Something else not mentioned

    Votes: 10 7.1%

  • Absolutely nothing.

    Votes: 67 47.9%

  • Bluetooth distortion/quality

    Votes: 22 15.7%
  • Total voters
    140
jxrxme said:
Today I received my second iPhone SE and I will return it for the same reason I returned the first one:

The display (compared to my iPhone 5) is -sorry Apple- crap. By crap I mean it handles color changes of high contrast very badly. It's very notable if I'm scrolling through black text on white background like the iPhone welcome screen when choosing the language, Instapaper, Tweetbot, Safari or Mail. The former black pixels get violet before becoming white. The actual black-to-white (or inverse) color change is a noticeable black-to-violet-to-white (or inverse) color change. While scrolling large parts of the display have a violet hue instead of looking white. As soon as the movement stops everything looks fine.

Since reading/scrolling in Mail, Instapaper, Tweetbot and Safari is 80% of my iPhone usage it's very annoying. I've never seen this behavior on any iPhone or iPad before (except the first iPhone SE of course). It's also easily noticeable in the settings App.
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Interesting. I have some questions for you:

1) How many times a day do you select a language in the Welcome Screen?
2) When using your Instapaper, Tweetbit, Safari, or Mail apps, have you considered looking at the content contained in the apps rather than focusing on how the info is presented to you?
3) Have you considered cognitive behavioral therapy for your OCD?
 
Got 64 GB silver; perfect screen + buttons (home, lock, volume) BUT screen ripples when I press hard in the upper left. Noticed when applying a screen protector. Not the end of the world and I'll keep it for a while and see.
 
BMcCoy said:
Hold the power button with your finger, and then shake it. Rattle goes away -> it's just the power button.
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Guess I have both then, because it still rattles a tad when holding the power button, but it's barely noticeable. Probably wouldn't have even noticed that had the power button not rattled much louder.
 
Bluetooth audio calls are horrendous. Everything else related to bluetooth works perfectly fine. Nothing else wrong with the phone, though.
 
\-V-/ said:
Bluetooth audio calls are horrendous. Everything else related to bluetooth works perfectly fine. Nothing else wrong with the phone, though.
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I don't understand what's going on with Bluetooth. I connected to my dad's car stereo to show him the issue I was having, and it worked perfectly fine. Went back to my car and the issue is back. It seems the Bluetooth issues only appear on certain Bluetooth devices.
 
Channan said:
I don't understand what's going on with Bluetooth. I connected to my dad's car stereo to show him the issue I was having, and it worked perfectly fine. Went back to my car and the issue is back. It seems the Bluetooth issues only appear on certain Bluetooth devices.
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The issue I'm having is for calls only. Music and everything else is perfect.
 
Channan said:
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Music plays fine in either car.
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Bluetooth calls sounded fine with my last phone. I'm tempted to try the beta just to see if it fixes the issue since there are reports that it does.
 
jxrxme said:
Today I received my second iPhone SE and I will return it for the same reason I returned the first one:

The display (compared to my iPhone 5) is -sorry Apple- crap. By crap I mean it handles color changes of high contrast very badly. It's very notable if I'm scrolling through black text on white background like the iPhone welcome screen when choosing the language, Instapaper, Tweetbot, Safari or Mail. The former black pixels get violet before becoming white. The actual black-to-white (or inverse) color change is a noticeable black-to-violet-to-white (or inverse) color change. While scrolling large parts of the display have a violet hue instead of looking white. As soon as the movement stops everything looks fine.

Since reading/scrolling in Mail, Instapaper, Tweetbot and Safari is 80% of my iPhone usage it's very annoying. I've never seen this behavior on any iPhone or iPad before (except the first iPhone SE of course). It's also easily noticeable in the settings App.
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I received my third iPhone SE and this time the screen is perfect. Maybe a little bit warmer if directly compared to my iPhone 5.
 
I'm actually impressed my Samsung chip is pumping out the same as my 6s TSMC did. No lag though. I had weird lag with my 6S when updating the OS.

It rattles but I keep a case on it that has metal and rattles too.

No yellow screen either.

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While I was happy with the SE I had, there was a slight yellowing at the top of the screen (which faded slowly, but not entirely), and the buttons would rattle slightly. Nothing major, nothing that impeded usability.
 
Patron_Saint said:
While I was happy with the SE I had, there was a slight yellowing at the top of the screen (which faded slowly, but not entirely), and the buttons would rattle slightly. Nothing major, nothing that impeded usability.
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Same for me and my daughter the little yellowing at the top has faded a lot. I have to shake my iPhone or hers to hear a slight rattle. It's of no consequence. We love our SEs
 
Rattling is a non issue just has sneezing isn't a serious medical condition. Get over it.
 
I just purchased a 64GB white SE to replace the 32GB white 5 that I've had for the last three years. If I hold the phone up to my ear and shake it violently, the sleep button rattles, but doing the same to my 5 makes the same sound. I guess I'll just have to avoid violently shaking it next to my ear.

Other than that, it's exactly what I wanted and expected; it's the iPhone 5 that I've loved for three years now, but with much faster internals and more storage. I couldn't be happier :)
 
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Just grabbed a 64GB SE.

Really glad that my screen doesn't have any of the yellowing issues already mentioned. There is some minor rattling, but I also had this on my 5C as well, and it doesn't really bother me. But this is my first iPhone with Touch ID, and the home button does feel a bit different compared to the 5C, maybe a bit more flimsy feeling? I've never tried another iPhone with Touch ID, so I'm not sure if they're all supposed to feel like this or not.
 
The 5s felt flimsy so does this one but it's okay. I like it. You'll grow accustomed to it or you'll get a different device. That's how I approach it.
 
I've gone from a 5 to an SE and the difference in the home button is staggering to me. It's not that it feels cheap, it just seems to need more pushing than the 5, and I don't quite have the same confidence that it will last as long as my 5 did (though ironically the home button on my 5 failing was why I finally upgraded!)

The power switch isn't particularly 'rattly' but it is 'looser' than the 5 for sure. No camera rattle that I can tell. The screen is absolutely fine to my eyes, but bare in mind my 5 was pretty horrible in that regard - it even had a dead pixel!

Overall I'm very happy with the phone in operation, but it isn't quite as well built as the 5 IMO.
 
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has anyone skimped and gone 16gb or just me?

debating getting 64 before end of return policy but really dont want to fork over another $100 on principle and already have a 64 6s plus,

can just be really efficient/learn to be/ hopefully iCloud music spotify and Photos iCloud sync across devices will mitigate the problem and space efficiency in iOS 10
 
thadoggfather said:
has anyone skimped and gone 16gb or just me?

debating getting 64 before end of return policy but really dont want to fork over another $100 on principle and already have a 64 6s plus,

can just be really efficient/learn to be/ hopefully iCloud music spotify and Photos iCloud sync across devices will mitigate the problem and space efficiency in iOS 10
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A bit off topic for this thread, but here's an extensive pro-con discussion specifically about the SE:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-se-16gb-or-64gb.1967518/

And there are these more general discussion as well:
httep://forums.macrumors.com/threads/plus-6-16gb-vs-64gb.1943090/

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-surving-with-16-or-switched-to-64gb.1941844/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-6-64gb-or-iphone-6s-16gb.1918995/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16gb-or-64gb.1913797/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-6-16gb-vs-64gb.1813681/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/64gb-iphone-6-vs-16gb-iphone-6.1789183/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-6-16gb-vs-64gb-silver-vs-space-grey.1785474/
 
luckily it was seamless:

started with a 16gb silver, heavy vertical interlacing and a hot top screen
wanted to try gold anyways silver felt bleak and good excuse to try another and have them to compare on top of my work 5s i have too,didnt exchange though kept both at the time so i could take teh better one, or return both if they were THAT bad

returned the silver the other and told them no problems with it just didnt want it or silver (since they'd deem in spec, dont want to explain it to people, etc. -- genius bar apt, blah blah)

what pleasantly surprised me was used a prepaid debit card and credit card for silver, credit card for gold. got all of the debit+cc money back on my AmEx when I returned silver :D
 
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