MacBook Pro 16 Inch Display Color

[sdp77]

If you put 2 MBPs next to each other it seems that the display on the new MBP 16 is a bit greenish, I am just not sure if this is the 'accurate' colour and older MBPs have less accurate displays. Anyway I also observed the screen has a greenish/yellowish hue which makes black text on a white background like print (ie. black text on slight yellowish paper) even when True Tone is switched off.
The other issue, as a lot of people have observed, is the slow response rate of the screen. When scrolling through text it's really annoying (it's far worse than my MBPr 2012). The text is blurred out and colours shift from black to greenish (on a black background with white letters, these become blue while scrolling). Unfortunately Apple hasn't acknowledged this to be a problem, yet, so I hope more people raise their voices. It's the most expensive MBP as of now with an sluggish performing screen, I am a bit disappointed as I hoped the 2019 version would be an improvement over the 2012 retina version, while this one had a better display. Come on Apple, you can do better than this, no?

Hi, MacMaze.
Does your display still have the same issues? Mostly the greenish hue. This is my third 16" in one month and the first to have the greens hue issue with.
I simply want to decide whether I should return it or it's just a software issue.

 

[Paul Anderegg]

I just hit my new i9 16" with iProfiler, and at the end, when it showed the RGB gamma on the graph, it definitely shows green below red and blue at the high end...my old 2015 on the same graph shows gren and red above the blue on the high end, which you could se as a slight green/yellow tint. Also, seems the recent iProfiler update resolved the weird blue black issue I reported previously.

Paul

 

[sdp77]

When I called AppleCare to look into it, she had me restart the MacBook in safe mode to see if it were exhibiting the same green hue. Interestingly enough, we could not do that. When I was trying to scroll, the page in Safari would just stutter. It was impossible to scroll.
That, plus the fact that True Tone was behaving erratically, I decided to return it for a refund.

 

[MacMaze]

Hi, MacMaze.
Does your display still have the same issues? Mostly the greenish hue. This is my third 16" in one month and the first to have the greens hue issue with.
I simply want to decide whether I should return it or it's just a software issue.

Hi, after a few months of use now, all I can say is that I am used now to the slightly greenish/yellowish hue on the new MBP 16. Once in a while I go back to my old MBP 2012 and I am still amazed how white the screen looks and the absence of any text smearing is quite nice. But then again, a lot of people on this forum claim that the white on the older MBP is too cool and the white on the MBP 16 is the only correct white given all measurements done, who am I to reject the numbers and say the new display is too yellow/green? Anyway, to sum things up, the way the MBP 16 screen behaves seems to be hardware related (unless newer versions of OS X show any improvements), so I guess the best way is to, either return your MBP 16 and wait until a new model arrives, or get used to the way the MBP 16 screen behaves.

 

[AlexNN]

Is it posible you see yellowish display on white because of true tone is on? Because if i turn off true tone the white pages goes to more cold white blueish, and i think i prefer the true tone one , more yellowish.

 

[MrGimper]

I just hit my new i9 16" with iProfiler, and at the end, when it showed the RGB gamma on the graph, it definitely shows green below red and blue at the high end...my old 2015 on the same graph shows gren and red above the blue on the high end, which you could se as a slight green/yellow tint. Also, seems the recent iProfiler update resolved the weird blue black issue I reported previously.

Paul

Would you mind sharing your calibrated profile file if you can?

 

[MrGimper]

I just did a comparison.... next to my 16", my 13" looks pink and my iphone 11 pro max looks green. Never good to compare screens