I decided to keep the rightmost one because it í less yellowish than the second rightmost one. Moreover, I checked them again, and the rightmost one does not have any light bleeding while the yellowish one has some slight ligh bleeding around the top right corner (portrait mode). Lastly, it has less book spine shadow effect than the yellowish. Both of them do not have dead pixels or dusts under screen.
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iPad Who got a perfect screen on the Air 2?
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I am tyoing on the yellowish one. I recognize that its yellow/warm white screen is quite comfortable for eyes, especially at night time. However, the yellowish is the best in only portrait mode.
On the other hand, ithe rightmost is slightly yellow white in lanscape mode. It is extremely comfortable to use the rightmost one in landscape. I do not understand why the yellowish ipad look whiter and brighter in portrait mode while the rightmost one is the best in landscape.
Can you explain this ?
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Well it could be related to the backlight lamp.... I don't know. On my iPad the white balance is the same in portrait and landscape.
I think it mainly is self suggestion on your part at this point.
I strongly suggest you to keep the iPad that you think it's better for you and sign out of this thread.
The picky people on forums like this, make users search for non existent issues.
We, customers, had to pay almost $1000 for our iPads, so we have right to require high quality products. Apple is not allowed to sell defective products and tell customers to accept such flaw iPads. I see you always defend 
against complaints from people who got terrible iDevices
against complaints from people who got terrible iDevices
We, customers, had to pay almost $1000 for our iPads, so we have right to require high quality products. Apple is not allowed to sell defective products and tell customers to accept such flaw iPads. I see you always defend
High quality product is what I have from Apple.
Are you not happy? Vote with your wallet and buy some "high quality" product from someone else....
There are not flaws in iPads.
I see you always defend
I almost didn't get your humor, thinking you were serious. Then I got the joke.
i would be more than happy if it was possible that someone else could make ios devices than apple. then we probably would have a working and supported pen, multiwindows, better screen etc.
Fortunately that won't ever happen
i would be more than happy if it was possible that someone else could make ios devices than apple. then we probably would have a working and supported pen, multiwindows, better screen etc.
You literally just described android. What you want already exists.
yes i know, and i do have Note
that was just a reply to "if you are not happy with apple..." unfortunately apple is the only one making ios devices, so if you want/need ios, you really dont have choices...So I took my ipad air 2 back to the apple store and exchanged it because of a book spine discolouration on the left hand side. Had absolutely no issues.
The new ipad air 2 now has no book spine but the distortion issue is more sensitive than my original air 2.
Now I knew this was the chance I was taking prior to going in. When I asked the genius about the issue he just said "yes that happens because the air 2 is so thin."
My question is, is having that distortion grounds for an exchange?? I'm not bother going to take it back anytime soon as chances are that the replacement will also have the same issue. So I was going to wait a few months to take action.
The new ipad air 2 now has no book spine but the distortion issue is more sensitive than my original air 2.
Now I knew this was the chance I was taking prior to going in. When I asked the genius about the issue he just said "yes that happens because the air 2 is so thin."
My question is, is having that distortion grounds for an exchange?? I'm not bother going to take it back anytime soon as chances are that the replacement will also have the same issue. So I was going to wait a few months to take action.
Perfect screen here IMO but I don't look for faults. If it's not immediately apparent then it's not going to bother me. There's nothing immediately apparently wrong with my screen, so it's perfect.
Same thing happened to me. My take on it is if the screen is great, and "just" has the distortion issue, then keep it. The distortion thus far hasn't shown to be a permanent issue, and if it ever turn out to be one, I am sure Apple will be lenient with exchanges. But if you return it again, you may get a panel that is even worse, who knows.
Interesting thread for me as I had returned my first Air 2 simply because we decided that 16 GB was not enough and went with a 128 GB model.
Although we were not unhappy with the screen on the first unit, we noticed the screen on the second unit is considerably better and even appears sharper.
In comparison the first screen seemed greyish and would not go as bright.
Certainly there are some significant variations in screens among the Air 2's...
Although we were not unhappy with the screen on the first unit, we noticed the screen on the second unit is considerably better and even appears sharper.
In comparison the first screen seemed greyish and would not go as bright.
Certainly there are some significant variations in screens among the Air 2's...
I used to own an iPad 4 with a perfect screen (the best computer screen I have ever seen) which I replaced with iPad Air that had yellowish screen with bookspine effect on the left-hand side. After a while I sold the Air, hoping to get an Air 2 with a perfect screen (like the 4th gen one) and I bought an Air 2 which turned out to have even worse bookspine effect than the Air 1 though the left-hand side "shadow" was slightly more even, like a vertical band with gradient, that was designed to be there. Besides that, the Air 2 has 5mm shadow along the bottom side of the screen that the Air 1 did not have.
PS: The guy that bought my iPad Air 1 did not notice any backlight unevenness and was quite happy with the purchase after a few days of usage.
PS: The guy that bought my iPad Air 1 did not notice any backlight unevenness and was quite happy with the purchase after a few days of usage.
I just sold an iPad 4th gen that I bought a couple years ago that had a distinct white balance shift (white to pinkish) that was most noticeable using the on screen keyboard. I learned to live with it with a bit of difficulty.
Just bought an iPad Air 2 and returned it last week because of basically the same issue just because I could and figured I try my luck at getting a better second one. Just picked up the second one a couple nights ago and it's better but still has a cool to warm shift albeit quite subtle. Most wouldn't notice it. No other screen anomalies so I'm keeping it.
My IP6 has a bright spot more or less in the centre of the screen that is only noticeable during scrolling. Apple called it "normal" so I was stuck with it. I've gotten used to that somewhat too.
I never seem to notice these issues with the Apple store units which makes me wonder if they cherry pick them before they put them on display.
Anyway, perfect screens represent about 10% of the units out there so just learn when to say "good enough".
Just bought an iPad Air 2 and returned it last week because of basically the same issue just because I could and figured I try my luck at getting a better second one. Just picked up the second one a couple nights ago and it's better but still has a cool to warm shift albeit quite subtle. Most wouldn't notice it. No other screen anomalies so I'm keeping it.
My IP6 has a bright spot more or less in the centre of the screen that is only noticeable during scrolling. Apple called it "normal" so I was stuck with it. I've gotten used to that somewhat too.
I never seem to notice these issues with the Apple store units which makes me wonder if they cherry pick them before they put them on display.
Anyway, perfect screens represent about 10% of the units out there so just learn when to say "good enough".
The first iPad air I had the left side was noticeably yellow when reading a book and had two faint gray lines running down the center of the screen, but I decided to keep it cause it wasn't super noticeable and I have apple care plus so I figured I had two years to change my mind. I wound up replacing it because the magnets that hold the Smart Cover in place went stupid and started to repel the Smart Cover and would make a loud noise when I closed it or flipped it to the back, but the new airs screen is much better It is almost perfect I also have a mini 3 with a perfect screen but the mini 2 I had that I gave to my sister had the bottom half of the screen yellow. If it's not super bad I would just keep it, it's really stressful to try to get the Apple Store people to see screen issues they all pretend they can't see them and you have to argue with them and wind up leaving pissed with the same iPad at least in New York city anyway.
Not Perfect here
Hi all,
after my iPad 4 died after 2 years and 6 weeks I got the air 2 last week in an Apple Store. I like the size, wight and speed of the air very much but it came with a small grayish shadow on the left side in portrait format. And additionally I saw some fingerprints after removing the foil!
So I had the feeling that I got an already returned one and went to the store again. They exchanged it, this time no fingerprints, it looked new. But the screen was almost the same, small shadows on the upper left edge. Rest is ok everything is white.
So I have to say that the display of the iPad 4 was better, at least for me. But I am happy with this very light and slim device and I enjoy it. Nothing is perfect.
Greetings,
Forty
Hi all,
after my iPad 4 died after 2 years and 6 weeks I got the air 2 last week in an Apple Store. I like the size, wight and speed of the air very much but it came with a small grayish shadow on the left side in portrait format. And additionally I saw some fingerprints after removing the foil!
So I had the feeling that I got an already returned one and went to the store again. They exchanged it, this time no fingerprints, it looked new. But the screen was almost the same, small shadows on the upper left edge. Rest is ok everything is white.
So I have to say that the display of the iPad 4 was better, at least for me. But I am happy with this very light and slim device and I enjoy it. Nothing is perfect.
Greetings,
Forty
I'm very fortunate in that my screen is beautiful...
This isn't one of those, "I don't have the problem so it must not exist" posts. I'm sure there are problems with some of the screens based on the complaints here. But since the OP asked who has a perfect screen, I'm just reporting in that mine is...
This isn't one of those, "I don't have the problem so it must not exist" posts. I'm sure there are problems with some of the screens based on the complaints here. But since the OP asked who has a perfect screen, I'm just reporting in that mine is...
After reading about so many people with good displays of the Air 2 I gave it a last, third try. So I went to the apple store again. This time they had more time and had a look on the display. The guy showed it to 2 colleagues and came back and discussed briefly.
Then he came back and told me that the display is not OK, everyone could see the shadow on the left edge.
So I got a new one which I unpacked in front of him. After the start screen showed up I could see that this one was fine.
So now I have a "perfect" display too and I am very happy about it. There are too many Air 2s out there which have problems, or I had very bad luck.
So don't give up, there is a good Air2 for everyone.
Greetings,
Torty
Then he came back and told me that the display is not OK, everyone could see the shadow on the left edge.
So I got a new one which I unpacked in front of him. After the start screen showed up I could see that this one was fine.
So now I have a "perfect" display too and I am very happy about it. There are too many Air 2s out there which have problems, or I had very bad luck.
So don't give up, there is a good Air2 for everyone.
Greetings,
Torty
both the iPad Air and the Air 2 have perfect screens. The Air 2 even beate my original Air. I can't say I was lucky with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, returned both and kept my 5s which has a great screen.
In the past I had several returns with both the iPad 3, 4 and mini. The Air generation never let me down, I hope the same goes in the future.
In the past I had several returns with both the iPad 3, 4 and mini. The Air generation never let me down, I hope the same goes in the future.