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Some Apple Watch Users Complain of Odd Green Screen Tint Following watchOS 9.5 Update
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Unintentional? Are you saying that Apple engineers are too dumb to think about testing software upgrades on older watch models? I doubt that.
More likely, this is Apple's way to make the older watches look less appealing and cause some people to upgrade to the newest model.
My iPhone 12 Mini has a similar issue. Seems to become green when it gets cold. I read that it is simply related to how the screen substrate is some sort of unstable material, and it changes based on the temperature. I don't know how true this is though.
My source is this article:
min.news
My source is this article:
IPhone 13 also has a green screen problem, which has a lot to do with the temperature
I don't know if the green screen is the tradition of Apple's series of products. From the vigorous iPhone 12 to the current iPhone 13, no one has escaped the cu
I agree it is bad UX. I originally thought I had some bad burn-in on my screen.
I guess I got lucky. My watch should have updated overnight but instead:
this is NOT a bug. they made the notification screen / passcode screen / control screen ever so slightly TRANSCLUCENT with the latest update. if you make your watch face green, or have photos etc. you see the tint coming through and yep... it could be greenish. I've reproduced this issue easily using my Ultra and when I have a bright watch face it looks tinted the color of the bright face (including green just like this) but the moment I move to a mostly black face it is barely noticeable.
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here are two examples taken seconds apart on the latest watchOS using just a different watch face background.
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I tried with the new pride wallpaper in white also. Here are the results:
As you can see - no issues. Gray is gray. No green tinting. Same applies for the notifications.
well I see green tinting... where there is green on the watch face. if you look at the two images I posted, I can cause the issue DEPENDING on the watch face I pick, in my case I picked one that had a greenish background tint and another with a mostly black/gray color. I don't think there is a bug here at all, on any watches... I think this was a choice to make this screen translucent and it is resulting in weird tints IF you have a watch face that causes it... since all our watch faces are so different from each other that is why this is only effecting some people but not others. now perhaps this becomes so distracting apple changes back from translucent backgrounds or maybe just sets the translucency to grayscale or something on a future revision...
This, it’s clearly an intentional design choice (like it or not), I noticed it immediately after I got the update this morning on my S4. The “tint” you see depends entirely on your watch face. I’m not a fan but I don’t think it’s a bug.
put a watch face with a slightly green tinted background (like modular with a color background) and try... bingo... affected. its because it is translucent now, not a bug.
I can't see it. In real life is better. Same applies for Nintendo Switch OLED green tint. If you make a photo of the screen, the camera is exacerbating the effect. I'm OCD to such and I can confirm my S8 is fine.
Again translucency it seems has been added. The safari tab at the rear has the color that is bleeding through the tab in front of it.
For sure the camera makes it worse I agree. In real life the green tint is subtle (with green watch face)
Maybe related 😅
Had it and have it still but way less (unlocking tint is gone on 9.4 , avoid 9.5 when found this on Reddit).
Apple not repaired and not replaced when asked for it, so I stay with better than normal battery (6 months 100% SoH )
Btw I am surprised that it took MacRumors that long to tell about it, but other trivial things are more important 🤦♂️
Had it and have it still but way less (unlocking tint is gone on 9.4 , avoid 9.5 when found this on Reddit).
Apple not repaired and not replaced when asked for it, so I stay with better than normal battery (6 months 100% SoH )
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/aw8-green-backlight-defect.2374581/?post=32177085#post-32177085
Btw I am surprised that it took MacRumors that long to tell about it, but other trivial things are more important 🤦♂️
Really?? You think with all the history incl the latest where France is investigating that Apple is THAT stupid??