I am not sure why you come at everyone with pitchforks in this forum. I am not a Samsung fanboy and was merely offering my opinion that our eyes' perception of color shifts on white point are especially sensitive. I have contributed a ton of research on this topic in previous posts and there are far more structural and manufacturing-derived reasons why this could also be true, but since I have experienced OP's use case on a 17PM I thought I'd add a data point.
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I am not sure why you come at everyone with pitchforks in this forum. I am not a Samsung fanboy and was merely offering my opinion that our eyes' perception of color shifts on white point are especially sensitive. I have contributed a ton of research on this topic in previous posts and there are far more structural and manufacturing-derived reasons why this could also be true, but since I have experienced OP's use case on a 17PM I thought I'd add a data point.
Yes, NS at 100% and TT on. In the daily use TT is off. I turn it on at 100% only for testing.
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Funny coming from you, considering you’re the one throwing tantrums here over the whole Samsung vs LG situation. I could not care less, as I have both panels in 2 different phones.
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One on the right definitely Samsung aye. Cant believe they still supply messed up panels to Apple. I was looking at a friends s25 ultra earlier. All uniform.I compare GH3 and G9N on 17pm.
the color I will choose LG's panel due to color accurate.
Samsung panels have a yellow/green mix fog on the panel that the color may shift to gray/yellow/green mixing, especially in light color base you will see more yellower and less color gradiant.
Maybe it just a trade off on these two different manufactors.
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I have found that TT enhances underlying panel "characteristics" and almost never in a positive manner. In your photos above, aside from significant white temperature changes in different external lighting conditions, the panel looks pretty uniform to my eyes.
Maybe you meant Night Shift? That feature, especially when set to the maximum level, really messes up the screen’s appearance. I think True Tone already does its job in managing the “warm” color temperature — in fact, I’ve never really liked that function because I prefer cooler colors, even if they’re sometimes less natural.
Anyway, thanks for your feedback 👍
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It's been fine. Pictures look good and it functions as expected. I haven't done all the "stare and compare" like all you have. Plus my eyes aren't the best anymore. Getting old sucks.
My experience is that true tone accentuates panel uniformity issues. Night Shift doesn't seem to affect it in the same way.
The same thing is happening on my apple studio display monitor and I think it's a MacOS bug. iOS 26.1 is in RC-status so it should be released soon. Let us know if it is still present when you update.
is this really a one-to-one situation with my? I’ve never seen this before
Sure feels like it at times. But I do notice the BOE has a slight warm tint than my Air (G9Q).
I have it on my MacBook & Studio Display when switching between viewing HDR content and SDR content. Haven't experienced it on my iPhone but it does sound like it's the same thing.
I don’t think it’s a problem, it’s just the display switching modes. But I don’t know if it happens on all displays or just select ones.
FYI…. TT doesn’t just manage the “warm” color temperature. Under certain lighting conditions, TT actually changes the display to a “cooler” temperature; it manages in both spectrums.
So, in short, if your preference is a cooler temperature…. Not using TT actually means that in some conditions you’re also missing out on a cooler display.
💯 %. I’ve actually seen TT make the display a cooler temp.
I looked at 4 iPhone 17s in Apple Store. Each had a different screen. QC at Apple needs to improve when it comes to screens
Google S25 screen tint and you will find plenty of discussion about it. It’s not just an Apple issue.
Yes, I mentioned a few pages back that this year LGs seem to be better factory calibrated than Samsungs in terms of color. That’s my opinion as someone obsessed with calibrating the two OLED TVs I own. One of them, by the way, is a Samsung. It’s a QD-OLED, so a different animal, but I’m very happy with it after making the appropriate adjustments. The other is an LG, which I’m also very satisfied with once properly calibrated.I compare GH3 and G9N on 17pm.
the color I will choose LG's panel due to color accurate.
Samsung panels have a yellow/green mix fog on the panel that the color may shift to gray/yellow/green mixing, especially in light color base you will see more yellower and less color gradiant.
Maybe it just a trade off on these two different manufactors.
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It doesn’t matter that Apple imposes certain calibration guidelines on manufacturers, there will always be differences between them.
And this is the clincher.
Even funnier that every screen looks totally different in the exact physical location with TT enabled.
You'd expect Apple, who know the individual calibration of every screen, and the "flavour" of the ambient light coming in, to be able to make screens look the same.