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iPhone 16 Pro Max Screen brightness on 16 Pro/Max [MERGED]
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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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
To be honest only Ross Young could tell us more what's coming for 17 series and what's the market share between all 3 vendors - BOE, Samsung and LG.
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.
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.
None of this nonsense over on the Samsung and Google side of the fence. S25 Ultra was perfect on the 1st try. Received the Pixel 10 Pro XL today and it may be the best screen I've seen on a phone thus far.
Sold my 16PM a few weeks ago in anticipation of ordering a 17PM and if I end up ordering I'm only giving it 1 chance this time. If it's trash I'm not wasting my time this year.
Sold my 16PM a few weeks ago in anticipation of ordering a 17PM and if I end up ordering I'm only giving it 1 chance this time. If it's trash I'm not wasting my time this year.
When you sell something with an off looking display, does the buyer not notice? or do they not care?
True. I've been neurotic about displays on my last 3-4 devices. and that too in a country without return policies 💀
it is much easier to spot with a direct comparision, my 4th 16 pm is kinda ok and thecolor shift is very small but when I took it to the apple store and compared to the best out there...the difference was night and day, mine wa 20% darker at least and the color shift was really easily visible. On a positvie kinda note, out of 8 iphones on the display only 2 were ok.
Fingers crossed the 17 doesn't have a forum thread like this. I'm just going to trade-in my 16PM around December and not check the panel type, compare, do any off axis stuff and just use it like a normie.
This feels like a bad dream.
So...I am literally thinking of skipping 17 due to the perfect 16 PM screen I have. I am just not ready yet mentally to play that lottery again.
If you want, get one, try and if it's bad - just return it. If it's good, keep it and sell the 16PM.
Not all countries allow seamless returns
If you check my previous posts, I had to sell my previous 16PM - switch to Galaxy for a few days until I could find a newish one available with someone that I could check.
Buying and selling to try my luck just means losing out on money and then the hassle of actually selling it.
Not all countries allow seamless returns
Same, my guy. Have to sell it at 10-15 percent loss. I will wait and see a few months to see whether Pro or Max has the less percentage of bad screens and test my luck. I am one Apple Watch sale away from going to Samsung lol
Advertised : 3000 nits peak brightness and 1000 nits manual brightness on the 17 Pro
So does that mean 2500 and 800 respectively on the LG Screens? 💀