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Things to check on the iPhone 6S Plus before purchase

johnhurley said:
Me too!
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I wish I did. My 3rd iPhone 6Plus is the best of the bunch but it has an uneven backlight and yellow to blue colour shift left to right.

I see it just looking at any webpage or text on a white screen. It's a shame as the rest of the phone is awesome.
 
Farsider said:
I wish I did. My 3rd iPhone 6Plus is the best of the bunch but it has an uneven backlight and yellow to blue colour shift left to right.

I see it just looking at any webpage or text on a white screen. It's a shame as the rest of the phone is awesome.
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wouldnt worry about it, im sure this one will get dropped or broken at some point :(
 
Thanks. Is there any advantages buying directly from Apple Store vs. from other electronic stores? I asked Apple directly about international warranty. The staff said that there is none. Then, I told her that somebody in this forum mentioned about Apple Care+. She then checked for about 10 minutes. Then, she said that she was glad that I mentioned it as I could get international warranty buying from Apple as a tourist!?
 
Mlrollin91 said:
"Perfect Screen" is in the eye of the beholder. I prefer a blue tinted screen, some prefer a yellow tinted screen. My screen is perfect as in no dead pixels or dust, but it does have a warmer, yellow tint. Is it bad? Not really, its only noticeable when using right next to my blue tinted iPad Air 2. So in my opinion, is my screen perfect, no, because its not what I like. But it is very common to get a slightly warmer tinted phone.
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I know how you feel about the yellow tint thing, my macbook is so cold, the colours look literary just as they'd in real life but my ip 6s+ is on the warmer side. What helped me a lot is turning on ''reduce white point'' in the settings, under accessibility - increase contrast, just in case you didn't know.
 
You're entitled to bring phone home and run it through 3 full charge cycles before finalizing purchase. Make sure you bring this up.

Seriously though, stop obsessing. It will be fine. You can't find a lot of these things out without taking it home.
 
convergent said:
And some people are OCD nut jobs. That doesn't mean there is something systemic wrong with iPhones or that they have a big QC problem. I've bought about 20 iPhones over the years and haven't had a problem with any of them. I am not "ignorant" and certainly not "bliss". I work in the tech industry, have a pretty high standard of excellence, and have been into semi-professional photography for years so understand most aspects of displays. There have not been any problems with any of my iPhones other than those caused by mishandling resulting in damage. I do not accept some of the stories people post on here about all the problems they claim to have. Like the silly thread claiming that their iPhone's aluminum is getting etched in less than a week simply from the sweat on their hands in normal use... multiple returns for this! Apple seems to bring out the nut cases as customers, and are way more tolerant with them than I would be. You try to keep returning something to me chasing a unicorn, I'd cut you off pretty quickly. But Apple is pretty tolerant.
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And this is why we aren't buying your phone. But seriously, every time you purchase a device, you're rolling the manufacturer's dice even when they are 99.999% perfect. This year, it seems that there are more issues than other years due to the new display technology. I did do a few replacements, but in every case, the Apple store retail associate seemed surprised to see the issue and exchanged the device. They saw an error (some extreme lighting issues on one and dead pixels on the other), and they were willing to fix it.

I will say that I've had a few iPods, an iPod touch 2nd and 3rd gen, an iPhone 4, an iphone 5s, and an iPhone 6, and this has been the first year that I've asked for a new device to be replaced for any reason (I did get a replacement for an iPod Touch when I saw smoke come out of the bottom and it stopped working). Using that anecdotal evidence (about as scientific as your assumption), you had a 1 in something chance to get the nice iPhone on the only generation with manufacturing issues, and so now you're criticizing others with legitimate concerns.

peterpan123 said:
I have Samsung Note 1, Note 2, Note PRO 12.2 and iPod 2. All with perfect screen. This will be my first time to buy an iPhone. Don't know about the QC of the latest iPhones.
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With the above in mind, I do have a phone that I am extremely satisfied with. Unfortunately, it still has a dead pixel, but it's in a place that I don't notice it unless I bring up a pixel checking app (dead spotter) and hunt for it, so I don't really care about it (the first time, it was right on the border between apps, and it was easily distracting because of it). I'm just happy to finally get a phone with an even back light and that isn't unevenly yellow (uniformity is fine, but I got a half-yellow, half-blue phone).

That being said, perhaps I was especially unlucky this year. I do hope this is the case for the sake of everyone else buying their first iPhone this year. I don't want them to have a bad experience because of something silly like that. IPhones are pretty great devices.
 
thatanonymoususer said:
And this is why we aren't buying your phone. But seriously, every time you purchase a device, you're rolling the manufacturer's dice even when they are 99.999% perfect. This year, it seems that there are more issues than other years due to the new display technology. I did do a few replacements, but in every case, the Apple store retail associate seemed surprised to see the issue and exchanged the device. They saw an error (some extreme lighting issues on one and dead pixels on the other), and they were willing to fix it.

I will say that I've had a few iPods, an iPod touch 2nd and 3rd gen, an iPhone 4, an iphone 5s, and an iPhone 6, and this has been the first year that I've asked for a new device to be replaced for any reason (I did get a replacement for an iPod Touch when I saw smoke come out of the bottom and it stopped working). Using that anecdotal evidence (about as scientific as your assumption), you had a 1 in something chance to get the nice iPhone on the only generation with manufacturing issues, and so now you're criticizing others with legitimate concerns.
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I think you lost the context of my reply. What I was replying to was the comment that some people have returned their phone 6 or 7 times. If someone has returned their phone 6 or 7 times and ended up with the same defect, then something is amiss with the person or they should give up on iPhones. If you can randomly hit the 0.0001% that many times... seriously???

I've had defects with many products... Apple included. Just bought a Vizio TV about a month ago and had a white line down the side of the display because the bezel wasn't properly aligned with the glass. I returned it, and in this case got a Samsung because I didn't have a history with the Vizio brand and suspected quality issues... with a sample of 1, it wasn't fair for me to draw that conclusion but that was how I dealt with it. I didn't go find a Vizio forum to bash them... just returned it. I've had Apple products stop working... I took them to Apple and had them taken care of. I can't imagine a scenario where I would keep buying and returning something 7 times under any circumstance... and again can't believe that there is such a huge quality problem that one person could randomly hit that many defects. That is why I said some people are OCD nut jobs. Not all people. Not most people. Just some people. For whatever reason, Apple's brand I think attracts that type of person more than others, and they seem to be content to keep them happy with their great return policy (for now).

Given that I've not run into a defect issue with an iPhone, I consider myself lucky since I've bought so many of them over the years for me and my family.
 
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