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iPhone 15 Pro Max Light Enters Top of Edge of 15 Pro Max and Disperses Down Screen

powerbook911

powerbook911

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This is borderline hilarious I know, but I wondered if anyone else noticed it...

Riding in the car today with the sun out, light was entering the top edge glass of my 15 Pro Max and putting a beam of light through the screen.

I flipped the phone 180 degrees to see if the bottom edge also let the light in and it did, but only about 1/5 as much.

So it's kinda bad luck when I have the light enter it just right at that top right corner, I'm going to have this on the screen. haha It's quite distracting.

I'm guessing maybe the slightly curved glass is to blame.

Just one of those things I guess. Not trying to make a big deal out of it, but has anyone else noticed it?
 
powerbook911 said:
This is borderline hilarious I know, but I wondered if anyone else noticed it...

Riding in the car today with the sun out, light was entering the top edge glass of my 15 Pro Max and putting a beam of light through the screen.

I flipped the phone 180 degrees to see if the bottom edge also let the light in and it did, but only about 1/5 as much.

So it's kinda bad luck when I have the light enter it just right at that top right corner, I'm going to have this on the screen. haha It's quite distracting.

I'm guessing maybe the slightly curved glass is to blame.

Just one of those things I guess. Not trying to make a big deal out of it, but has anyone else noticed it?
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I've got a case on mine, but that's really interesting. It sounds like your phone needs to be at the exactly the right angle relative to the light source?
 
rulymammoth said:
I've got a case on mine, but that's really interesting. It sounds like your phone needs to be at the exactly the right angle relative to the light source?
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Yeah a case would probably prevent this from happening.

At first I thought it was damage to the screen because I could actually rotate the phone quite a LOT and the light down the screen wouldn't move / change shape. It was very odd. I guess wherever it enters on that top corner, it gets dispersed in a particular path down the screen that doesn't change much based on angle.

I could put my finger on the side of the top edge and prevent it from happening. Finger had to be on the edge, not on top of the phone to prevent it.
 
Radius the edges and glass and sometimes unforeseen things happen. I am betting that it is actually the top edge of the radius glass where it is happening.
 
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Talk to someone dealing with a real health issue. Then watch a movie and eat a TV dinner and drink some cheap wine. That always does it for me. This issue is nothing at all.
 
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Fat_Guy said:
Talk to someone dealing with a real health issue. Then watch a movie and eat a TV dinner and drink some cheap wine. That always does it for me. This issue is nothing at all.
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I don't know if you've seen it. It was very distracting. Not the end of the world by any means, but if using it in the sun a lot and they're all like mine ( they may very not be), it could be something to note.

The light beam was actually fairly wide too.

It may be specific to my phone though.
 
I do not think it is specific to your phone as you stated. I think it might affect the entire line up for this year. I still think if mine was without a case it would probably do the same thing but I quickly got an ugly case for mine a Mybat case from Amazon.

I am thinking it is where the glass meets the frame and since the glass and frame have a slight radius it is where the sun can go in and be refracted. I had a Plymouth Duster which did that with a replacement windshield. I would be going north or south with the sun at either sunrise or sunset and I get this light across the dashboard. I ended up putting on a solar tint in a band that mitigated the issue for the most part
 
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Fat_Guy said:
Talk to someone dealing with a real health issue. Then watch a movie and eat a TV dinner and drink some cheap wine. That always does it for me. This issue is nothing at all.
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Really? You could issue this response to literally every single post on this forum, and in fact to the existence of the entire site. And most sites across the planet.

Health issues? Life and death? Save it for doctors/nurses/first responders/crisis centers/deities/religious personnel/congregations/spouse/partner/family/friends/anywhere other than a tech-focused site.
 
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Velin said:
Really? You could issue this response to literally every single post on this forum, and in fact to the existence of the entire site. And most sites across the planet.

Health issues? Life and death? Save it for doctors/nurses/first responders/crisis centers/deities/religious personnel/congregations/spouse/partner/family/friends/anywhere other than a tech-focused site.
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Exactly my thoughts. Coming to a tech forum complaining it's about tech. Really?
Sorry if he's going through stuff but who isn't? Not everyone's talking about it publicly.
 
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Mikeske said:
I do not think it is specific to your phone as you stated. I think it might affect the entire line up for this year. I still think if mine was without a case it would probably do the same thing but I quickly got an ugly case for mine a Mybat case from Amazon.

I am thinking it is where the glass meets the frame and since the glass and frame have a slight radius it is where the sun can go in and be refracted. I had a Plymouth Duster which did that with a replacement windshield. I would be going north or south with the sun at either sunrise or sunset and I get this light across the dashboard. I ended up putting on a solar tint in a band that mitigated the issue for the most part
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Very interesting.

We were out in a slightly different time of day today, and it didn't happen. Hopefully it's not something that would come up too often. Fingers crossed.
 
powerbook911 said:
I don't know if you've seen it. It was very distracting. Not the end of the world by any means, but if using it in the sun a lot and they're all like mine ( they may very not be), it could be something to note.

The light beam was actually fairly wide too.

It may be specific to my phone though.
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I hear you…


Look at it this way. I paid two thousand dollars for Zeiss lenses for my glasses because I wanted the best with no color issues. They have these tiny square holograms that say Zeiss on each lens as well as the prescription on them. Anyway they still suffer from errant refraction on the sides. You really can’t escape it. Zeiss is one of the two best prescription lens makers in the world and even they can’t stop it.


Sure there is a reason such as poor fitment but does that rise to replacement? Maybe it does and maybe it doesn’t.


I can almost always tell an iPhone recording on YouTube as the green lens flare gives it away. Other use coatings from Lecia (I believe), anyway this year it has a new coating. But they left it as is for years!


Cure? Rub some vaseline in there and that may do it…. But if it really is above the frame then send it back.
 
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Velin said:
Aren't you the same person who said the OP should worry about "real" issues, and this was "nothing at all"?
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Yup - but the evidence changed my mind. I figured it was just light entering a hairline crack between the glasss and frame. What you see in reddit is poor design/assembly to an extent I never saw at Apple before. And if you read the comments there were a bunch at the table like that.


So I change my tune, vaseline is not going to cure this…


Also, that was top screen and you had the sharpness problem with the bottom screen as well - that is unforgivable at this price point!
 
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Fat_Guy said:
This one gets sent back!


Man! What the hell has happened to Apple’s quality control?


And they want you to pay through the nose for this!
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Oh wow, that IS bad. I thought OP was maybe overreacting, but that Reddit thread video is bad.

although, I just looked at mine and thought I saw the same issue. But it's refraction through the glass. I wonder if that's what's going on here.
 
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