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I'm seeing a lot of people with burn-in on 14 and 15 Pro's.
Definitely those people used the brightness level cranked up at maximum for the whole time, w/o using the auto-adjust feature and subsequentally w/o calibrating the min and max levels.
 
To give a bit of life to the topic.

I bought base iPhone 16 for my mother. Usually suppliers are BOE and Samsung. 16+ is just Samsung. Her unit came with BOE screen (Serial starts with GR9H). It's kinda yellow-ish and at max brightness feels like 60-70% of my 16 Pro. Uniformity wise is not bad.
 
Any chance that the 17s are not going to have this issue?

Recently got a 16 Pro Max and I just can't get used to this GH3 after seeing what a Samsung display looks like. My 5 year old OnePlus has better viewing angles than this.

No returns or refunds either. My only options are selling at a loss or upgrading at a cost. I’d choose upgrading at a cost if it means that I’m guaranteed to get a good display.

I really like Apple but if its a lottery, I will just move to Samsung.
 
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I highly doubt it. They are still going to use the same type of panels and this has always been the case, even in prior generations. It's just that people are now more informed and are looking into it. In general OLED panel lottery is on every type of device.
 
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I highly doubt it. They are still going to use the same type of panels and this has always been the case, even in prior generations. It's just that people are now more informed and are looking into it. In general OLED panel lottery is on every type of device.
Feels like LG got a higher percentage of displays this year compared to last year. Someone should tell them sit tf down.

If a 17 pro forum with the same topic doesn't get created in the next few months I shall consider the upgrade 😂
 
I really dislike the iOS 26 design changes so I've been trying to get a device with a Samsung display. No luck so far, it's been mostly LG for all the devices I have gotten.
 
I really dislike the iOS 26 design changes so I've been trying to get a device with a Samsung display. No luck so far, it's been mostly LG for all the devices I have gotten.
Pros or Pro Maxes?

I’m gonna wait and see whether pro or max gets LG displays more and avoid that.

I heard the 16 Plus was Samsung only
Hopefully LG leaves a model untouched
 
Pros or Pro Maxes?

I’m gonna wait and see whether pro or max gets LG displays more and avoid that.

I heard the 16 Plus was Samsung only
Hopefully LG leaves a model untouched
Only tried one Pro, it was a GH3

Pro Max ends up being an LG screen 90% of the time (based on what I've purchased) with terrible green shift and noticeably lower brightness than Samsung displays, I've gotten G9P before but at 50% brightness with night shift on the top of the display has a brightness gradient vs the bottom half. I got G9N twice but both times one half of the pictures the camera was taking was significantly blurry. Not sure what's going on, I usually upgrade every year but it's been so bad this year that I kept my 15 Pro Max for two full years.
 
Only tried one Pro, it was a GH3

Pro Max ends up being an LG screen 90% of the time (based on what I've purchased) with terrible green shift and noticeably lower brightness than Samsung displays, I've gotten G9P before but at 50% brightness with night shift on the top of the display has a brightness gradient vs the bottom half. I got G9N twice but both times one half of the pictures the camera was taking was significantly blurry. Not sure what's going on, I usually upgrade every year but it's been so bad this year that I kept my 15 Pro Max for two full years.
i see

Hopefully things are different on the 17s

I regret trading in my 15 Pro Max but that things battery health was dipping every 5 cycles and there’s no Apple service in my country so it felt like a good option at the time.

Might as well use this 16 pro max for a few months and see how the 17s are, if not hello S26
 
Apple is the only major brand that uses LG OLED. Are they stup*d. Sigh...

Every year it gets praise about using Samsung's latest and greatest display tech and this happens
dont mind me. I'm just really salty cuz I spent around 1200 and having the most buyers remorse I've ever had.
 
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