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PSA: Wait a few days before complaining about Yellow Screens! The glue is drying

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NewtonPippin

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This happens every iPhone launch... my screen is yellow... piss yellow... Guys, please wait a couple of days for this to naturally fade away. Every time, the glue has to dry before the screen color returns to normal.

Just had to make this PSA before the barrage of yellow screen posts start!
 
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The glue is drying. This is the worst excuse I have ever heard. Only on these forums.
If my screen is yellow when I turn it on, then so be it. Turn true tone off and if that doesn't help, get used to it.
Still don't like it - waste your time returning it until you happen to get one where the glue already dried :rolleyes:. FML.
 
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For those of you that say this never happens, do a forum search for EVERYiphone release. Although I appreciate the OP’s post, it will get buried and then we will see 15-20 posts about it. Mine has been slightly yellow every year but as the screen stays warm over a short period of time, it does turn less yellow. Congrats to those that have never experienced it but lots have.
 
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NewtonPippin said:
This happens every iPhone launch... my screen is yellow... piss yellow... Guys, please wait a couple of days for this to naturally fade away. Every time, the glue has to dry before the screen color returns to normal.

Just had to make this PSA before the barrage of yellow screen posts start!
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Please stop perpetuating the "glue is drying" myth. This is pure donkey horse shiat. It's not glue, it's not drying, it's a screen thing.

PLEASE STOP POSTING THIS!
 
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Because only the heat from turning on the phone will dry “glue”. Not the two weeks of sitting after having said glued applie would dry the glue. Lmao.
 
This glue thing has been going around since the earliest days of the iPhone. Teardowns on most devices since then have shown that there is no glue, yet every time any iDevice is released, the glue thing comes up.
 
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the X changes tint as you move it so looking straight its yellow then a slight tint and its pure white its horrible :(
 
NewtonPippin said:
This happens every iPhone launch... my screen is yellow... piss yellow... Guys, please wait a couple of days for this to naturally fade away. Every time, the glue has to dry before the screen color returns to normal.

Just had to make this PSA before the barrage of yellow screen posts start!
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too late.
 
Ridiculous is right by all counts. Every year we have people complaining about yellowgate. Then next year they upgrade and take the same phones they were fuming over having a yellow tint, compare to the new phone, and new phone has yellow tint vs old phone( which had yellow tint as well).

While I’m sure it’s not the glue thing, the panic over yellowgate keeps on happening.
 
martin2345uk said:
Why would wet glue make the screen yellow anyway?
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i sometimes use silicone glue to attach LED lights on various types of retail display..

if the glue happens to cover one of the diodes, the light will be yellowish instead of white.
that said-- it doesn't matter if the glue is wet or dry.. it will look yellow in either case.

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(for clarity-- i'm not even talking about the X.. mine won't even be delivered for another couple of hours..
i'm just talking about my personal experience with lights and wetORdry glue..

ie- i'm off topic AF :) )
 
NewtonPippin said:
This happens every iPhone launch... my screen is yellow... piss yellow... Guys, please wait a couple of days for this to naturally fade away. Every time, the glue has to dry before the screen color returns to normal.

Just had to make this PSA before the barrage of yellow screen posts start!
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What a load of BS!!
 
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NewtonPippin said:
This happens every iPhone launch... my screen is yellow... piss yellow... Guys, please wait a couple of days for this to naturally fade away. Every time, the glue has to dry before the screen color returns to normal.

Just had to make this PSA before the barrage of yellow screen posts start!
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WRONG unless you are talking about an iPhone 4. There is no glue to dry. The screen is warmer as Apple made it warmer.
 
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