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iPhone 11 Is the screen lottery worth it?

Ingenioutored

Ingenioutored

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so I guess I have a case of the OCD. I upgraded to an 11 from an XR which like almost all other XRs had a yellow bottom but wasn’t visible at all during daily use so I didn’t really mind it. I upgraded to the 11. The display on my 11 is a tad bit warmer. Not a lot but you can tell. However, the edges of the screen seem to have a shadow. I’m not sure if it’s my head playing tricks or something but I can definitely see a drop shadow along the edges of the entire display. My wife can’t even tell it’s there. I never really noticed these things until a few years ago. Honestly I wish I could go back to being like that. But the display overall is completely even and balanced. We don’t really have apple stores here so getting it exchanged is a hassle and even if it does happen and I get a lemon I’m stuck with it because it even take greater effort to exchange the replacement or get a refund for it.

Should I just stick it out with this one?
 
Have the exact same shadow and it doesnt bother me one bit. It is this or the backlight bleed that used to plague alot of their devices.
 
Screen lottery? LOL. Come on, people. I can understand the OCD thing and wanting absolute perfection but many of you are looking for problems that are not problems at all.

If you look hard enough and you're that eager to find imaginary defects, you'll find them. As long as the device has no dead pixels or any other obvious defects, you're fine. If you're going to get involved in comparing very slight differences in screen tint, barely perceptible 'light bleed', sparkles, or any other forum-invented 'problem areas' then there's no hope for you.

Remember that guy that exchanged 12 iPhones because he kept seeing a slight yellow tint to his screen? Then he insisted that the Apple store go through their stock of iPhones so he could personally inspect each one and choose the right candidate that met his own personal satisfaction for screen color.

Please don't be that guy. But looking at your entire post history here, I can see that you're already hopeless.
 
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Wow just wow. When I received my Pro Max I noticed screen looked better on my XS Max. I also felt screen on X looked better than my XS Max. Well after 1-2 weeks it looks as is and looks pretty awesome. No Complaints. Enjoy your phones people.
 
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Scream And Fly said:
Screen lottery? LOL. Come on, people. I can understand the OCD thing and wanting absolute perfection but many of you are looking for problems that are not problems at all.

If you look hard enough and you're that eager to find imaginary defects, you'll find them. As long as the device has no dead pixels or any other obvious defects, you're fine. If you're going to get involved in comparing very slight differences in screen tint, barely perceptible 'light bleed', sparkles, or any other forum-invented 'problem areas' then there's no hope for you.

Remember that guy that exchanged 12 iPhones because he kept seeing a slight yellow tint to his screen? Then he insisted that the Apple store go through their stock of iPhones so he could personally inspect each one and choose the right candidate that met his own personal satisfaction for screen color.

Please don't be that guy. But looking at your entire post history here, I can see that you're already hopeless.
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The panel lottery is real in some cases, I don't know how much effect it has here though. But on Macs, at least back in the day, the panel you got could vary in quality greatly depending on who made it.

I'd hope Apple has sorted this out, and made the quality of the displays similar regardless of manufacturer.
 
Ingenioutored said:
so I guess I have a case of the OCD. I upgraded to an 11 from an XR which like almost all other XRs had a yellow bottom but wasn’t visible at all during daily use so I didn’t really mind it. I upgraded to the 11. The display on my 11 is a tad bit warmer. Not a lot but you can tell. However, the edges of the screen seem to have a shadow. I’m not sure if it’s my head playing tricks or something but I can definitely see a drop shadow along the edges of the entire display. My wife can’t even tell it’s there. I never really noticed these things until a few years ago. Honestly I wish I could go back to being like that. But the display overall is completely even and balanced. We don’t really have apple stores here so getting it exchanged is a hassle and even if it does happen and I get a lemon I’m stuck with it because it even take greater effort to exchange the replacement or get a refund for it.

Should I just stick it out with this one?
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As long as your screen is otherwise uniform and no dead pixels, keep it. You could exchange it and get one with less of the “shadow” but terrible uniformity or pixel issues. I’ve seen this shadow “issue” on the 11, it doesn’t bother me at all and is just barely noticeable. I understand your feelings, OP, but you should keep this one if this is your only issue with it.
 
I don't know what these people do that they 'find' all these screen issues (like that one guy that posted last year about being on his 16th exchange or something ridiculous).

I've had every flagship since the original (upgrade annually) and I've never, not once, had an issue with my screen.
 
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Is it really noticeably warmer than xr ?

Anyone got side by sides ?

That sounds like a bit of a bummer
 
Scream And Fly said:
Screen lottery? LOL. Come on, people. I can understand the OCD thing and wanting absolute perfection but many of you are looking for problems that are not problems at all.

If you look hard enough and you're that eager to find imaginary defects, you'll find them. As long as the device has no dead pixels or any other obvious defects, you're fine. If you're going to get involved in comparing very slight differences in screen tint, barely perceptible 'light bleed', sparkles, or any other forum-invented 'problem areas' then there's no hope for you.

Remember that guy that exchanged 12 iPhones because he kept seeing a slight yellow tint to his screen? Then he insisted that the Apple store go through their stock of iPhones so he could personally inspect each one and choose the right candidate that met his own personal satisfaction for screen color.

Please don't be that guy. But looking at your entire post history here, I can see that you're already hopeless.
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Please tell me you can find a link to the guy who asked to inspect all the stock hahahah
 
coney718 said:
This forum in a nutshell.
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Couldn’t have said it better myself :D

Don’t get me wrong, yes, of course some iPhones (and every other product under the sun) will have legitimate issues, no-one can achieve a 0% failure rate. And this isn’t just new now because of smartphones, it’s always been a thing.

But I must be seriously lucky, aside from one or two proper faults, in nearly 30 years of mobile phone ownership, I’ve never experienced the things people regularly complain about - and I am a bit, well not fussy exactly, but with my background I just can’t help but notice problems when they’re there, it’s been trained into me.

But, I suppose we can’t really say what another person deems to be a problem, especially when we don’t get to see the device ourselves. And I’d imagine people on here are part of the very vocal minority we sometimes hear about, as I often say, you rarely get people making posts to say ‘hey I bought an iPhone and there’s nothing wrong with it’. People like to complain it seems, human nature I suppose.
 
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