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iPhone 12 Pro Which screen do you prefer?
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I played with my 11 Pro and a new 12 Pro today in Best Buy for awhile. I turned True Tone off on both and couldn’t really tell much difference between them as far as “yellow tint”. However, when I switched True Tone back on for both, the 12 Pro was wayyy more aggressive and then it was obviously yellow at that point. I think apple needs to issue an update and cool it down a little bit if possible.
No offense but that picture makes the screen quality for the 12 look like ****.
I noticed another thread with folks saying their 12 pros were also not as bright as the X or the 11pros.
seems to be all over the place.
Those people may have defective units. X and 12 are 620 nit. 12P is 800 nit. So Pro is like 30% brighter.
None taken...it certainly caught my eye after turning it on.
it’s seems fine just using without comparing to the X, but ya...huge difference.
im still well within return window though.
Here is mine for reference. 12 Pro on left. X on right
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In fairness the 30% difference isn’t very noticeable in practice in my opinion. Our eyes and brains perceive brightness roughly logarithmically, so for something to appear twice as bright to the eye it actually needs to be about 10X as bright in an absolute sense. If you have a smart led bulb with brightness control you can test this yourself - a setting of 10-20% appears as roughly half the max. I suspect on phone display sliders that this effect is already compensated for in software.
the two screens are the same in resolution and peak HDR brightness, the Pro just drives the display a little brighter during normal use.
I’d feel ok if both phones were roughly the same in brightness, but this pro is definitely less bright.
Not sure how much the bluish screen contributes; the slider 75% of the way on my X is noticeably brighter than full blast on the 12 pro.
What does it look like with the True Tone on?
sounds like most of the folks with yellow issues are turning theirs off...
It is more yellow with True Tone turned on. My personal take is that while the iPhone 12 models are getting a lot of flack around the community for being "too yellow", it's actually the previous models that are too blue. I think the colors and white point on the pro are more neutrally balanced.