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Technically speaking yes, but they never worked. I have that display… and regret buying it everyday.
Coding, writing and some graphical design every day on my 5k LG monitor and I think it's perfect.

With IDEs having dark themes, and now all of Mojave, true tone is obsolete.
 
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If you are in yellow light it will match the light around you. I find it to be easier on the eyes, dosn't turn it into the old good paper but definitelly easy, if you are used to cold gama you can just disable it.
Right, I'm familiar with what it's trying to do and the theory behind it. It does make sense if the user prefers a screen that matches their surroundings. Generally speaking, for me, no matter the light I'm in, it just adds a warmer tint of varying strength. I prefer a cooler look (I find even an out-of-the-box iPhone to be sometimes too "yellow"), so like you said-- I've just disabled it.
 
Still haven't really understood the appeal of True Tone. It just turns things yellow for me in most situations.

For my iPad Pro and my X, it keeps the display from turning into an obtrusive blue glow all over the place when I'm viewing things in a warmly lit room, especially when that ambient light is dim. Previously, the light coming off my screen would look almost fluorescent, and be quite harsh, under those conditions. Today, it's much better.

It's a subtle thing, sure, but one I find quite pleasing.
 
I love the "I would rather have..." and "I wish they would..." comments. This is a feature that is extending to existing displays. You can't just add pixels or HDR or flying unicorns to existing displays. If you'd rather have 4k or HDR or flying unicorns, you would have purchased a different display in the first place.
 
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For my iPad Pro and my X, it keeps the display from turning into an obtrusive blue glow all over the place when I'm viewing things in a warmly lit room, especially when that ambient light is dim. Previously, the light coming off my screen would look almost fluorescent, and be quite harsh, under those conditions. Today, it's much better.

It's a subtle thing, sure, but one I find quite pleasing.
I see what you mean. I have it turned off on my Pro and X because I feel like I'm losing color accuracy with it on, and that thought bothers me (when really, it shouldn't unless I'm doing something that requires said accuracy) lol. Weird hang up of mine, I guess.
 
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I love True Tone so much and every display is gonna have this tech in the future. Anxiously awaiting my upgrade from a 7 Plus to an XI Plus in Sept so I can finally get that feature on my phone. It makes the screen so much more natural looking in warmer light - I'll be comfortably using my iPad Pro in a room with dim, warm indoor lighting and then pick my phone up and it's all jarringly, disgustingly blue. Same with Apple Watch, it's way too cool-hued of a screen at night, it actually hurts my eyes sometimes. This discomforting experience needs to be eliminated from tech and I'm so glad Apple is taking the initiative on it. Calling it now, all screens in the future will adapt to their environment, presenting content in a natural, properly color-balanced way relative to the user's surroundings. I'd say within 5 years this will be more of a common thing and within 10 years it will be the absolute, unquestioned norm.

Anxious does not mean what you think it does. Anxious means intense, excessive, and persistent worry. such as anxiety, dread, fear, and their ilk. Also, Anxious comes from Latin, Angere, meaning to choke or strangle. My bet is you are not “anxiously awaiting” you are “eagerly awaiting” and rightfully so.
 
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""Just give me back a matte, 16:10 ACD display in the 30" size - preferably one with modern powered ports that is 5K or better. thanks.""

I use two of those to this day. Fantastic displays.
 
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With other third-party monitors, True Tone will not be an available option.

What about with the Apple LED Cinema Displays? They're basically the same display tech as the Thunderbolt displays, but older ports. But they're not third-party monitors.
 
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“using an Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter”

Had to smile at adapter. 2k for a massively engineered super thin laptop then everyone has bags of white adapters :D

Long live the 2015!
 
Why not have full Adobe RGB color space? At one time the graphics, including photography, market was 98% Mac. I am a photographer, and professional drum scanner operator. My customers depend on me for accurate color rendition.

Adobe RGB is a color space that wasn't engineered to make sense at all. It wasn't even engineered. It was supposed to be essentially sRGB, but Adobe made two mistakes, misunderstanding and misreading the spec.

DCI-P3 is intended to fit within the bounds of cinema projectors, which is good for consumers who want to view media content. BT.2020 is going to match content and display technology in the future. No consumer media will use Adobe RGB. Adobe RGB should be considered as legacy.
 
True tone just makes things look yellow, would rather have 4k screen
No. Rather, it keeps a natural ("true") white balance by adjusting for ambient lighting.

As for the eyestrain claims, I can vouch for that on my 12.9 iPP. So much easier to read or work with documents for long periods.
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Yes, it makes everything warmer or cooler. I prefer a well calibrated screen. Night shift is already good enough for nighttime. During the way I definitely wouldn’t like looking at a warm display.
Night shift and True Tone are two very different things. Night Shift, if you enable it, does deliberately "yellow" the display in order to avoid the effects of too much blue screen light interfering with the ability to fall asleep.

True Tone preserves the natural white balance even when the ambient light changes.
 
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No. Rather, it keeps a natural ("true") white balance by adjusting for ambient lighting.

As for the eyestrain claims, I can vouch for that on my 12.9 iPP. So much easier to read or work with documents for long periods.
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Night shift and True Tone are two very different things. Night Shift, if you enable it, does deliberately "yellow" the display in order to avoid the effects of too much blue screen light interfering with the ability to fall asleep.

True Tone preserves the natural white balance even when the ambient light changes.
Without the ambient sensors working along with the true tone, I don't see how enabling True Tone is a feature on something like the LG Ultrafine displays. Unless True Tone will also control the screen brightness, which doesn't seem likely.
 
Does the 2018 MBP have any necessary hardware for True Tone which older models don't have, or is it just artificially limited by software? The fact it works on external displays makes me think the latter but I'm not well versed enough on the engineering to know for sure. Would appreciate input from someone with better knowledge than me...
 
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