iPhone 13 What's wrong with this screen?

[dj1891]

iPhone 13 refurb, I saw it straight away when setting up. The colours looked washed out, then came the blacks, it became pixelated and blocky, didn't handle blacks well at all.

The photo is compared to a cheap Moto android amoled screen. It was an apple refurb and shows screen replaced and battery in August.

 

[Reverend Benny]

Max brightness settings?
What source you streaming from?

 

[dj1891]

Max brightness settings?
What source you streaming from?

Yes max, it's much worse if I lower it, it goes all pixelated and blocky. That's YouTube video

 

[Reverend Benny]

Yes max, it's much worse if I lower it, it goes all pixelated and blocky. That's YouTube video

Hard to know if its faulty (or not OEM screen) but sure, it doesn't look right. Could be the screen but before you are returning it, can it be that the cheapo Android streams higher quality (less blocky, better quality)? Its a longshot but at least worth looking into before heading to the Apple store.

 

[stooie3000]

I don’t think it’s the source video that’s the issue; I had exactly the same problem on a second hand XS I bought a year ago. It couldn’t display gradients of any colour (it rendered as distinct bands of colour) and black was especially problematic, with the same pixelation your describing. This happened on video and photos. I returned it, so don’t have a solution for you I’m afraid, but I have seen it before.

Attached are four images: two original pics and two photos of how the phone displayed them.

Edited to add: icons looked ok on the Home Screen, and apps looked ok I seem to recall. It was specifically dark images and gradients that it had an issue with.

 

[ChoiMinji]

iPhone 13 refurb, I saw it straight away when setting up. The colours looked washed out, then came the blacks, it became pixelated and blocky, didn't handle blacks well at all.

The photo is compared to a cheap Moto android amoled screen. It was an apple refurb and shows screen replaced and battery in August.
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Take a screenshot of it and send it to another device and see what it looks like

 

[Helmsley]

That's definitely not an OEM screen. And the comments about the settings...you'd never get it to look that bad by just by adjusting the settings on the device.