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Is your truetone enabled? Are you happy?

  • Yes, yes

    Votes: 58 58.6%
  • Yes, no

    Votes: 4 4.0%
  • No, yes

    Votes: 23 23.2%
  • No, no

    Votes: 10 10.1%
  • Could care less

    Votes: 4 4.0%

  • Total voters
    99

Appl3FTW

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am I the only not thoroughly impressed by the OLED? Maybe I was expecting some blow out of the water quality and it’s just “okay”. Maybe cuz the 8 Plus LCD screen is just that good? Or maybe it’s the TrueTone that’s causing the yellow tint. I gotta say tho, the X screen shines in black. The blacks are deep and rich compared to LCD.

Do you have truetone enabled?
Are you satisfied with the screen?
 
Yes true tone is very convenient, I have my enabled all the time. it adjusts white points to right percentage and intensity.
 
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No issues with true tone here, but then I’m used to it and like it on the iPad Pro as well. What I have done though is switch night shift off. Wasn’t liking that at all on the X

I prefer Tru-Tone overnight shift. Night Shift tends to just yellow the dislay a lot more.
 
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That’s a nice iPhone X you got there...

Would be a shame if...SOMETHING WAS TO HAPPEN TO IT!!!1!ii!i
 
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It's not really about OLED being that much better than LCD, since the iPhone always had one of the best displays. It's about having that near edge-to-edge display with minimal bezels that's amazing.

I have true tone off. All it did was yellow the screen for me. I'll enable it sometimes at night, but other than that I want actual whites to be white and not yellow.
 
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I turned off True Tone because it felt too aggressive on my X making whites too yellow. With it off whites look so much better. On my iPad Pro 10.5 True Tone works great though.

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I just did a side by side comparison with my X and my iPad pro 10.5. With True Tone Enabled/disabled and both screens were fairly similar in how aggressive the True Tone was. Obviously they will not look exactly the same because the iPad is a larger LCD and the X is a smaller OLED screen. Even though they were similar (for the most part) in how True Tone was implemented I still find it better to have True Tone off on X and on on the iPad (at least to my eyes). It would seem that a smaller screen is more noticeable to my eyes than on a larger screen. Either way both screens look great.

When I compared the X to my 7Plus I found that with true tone off on the X it was brighter and had slightly better whites than my 7 Plus.
 
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Maybe cuz the 8 Plus LCD screen is just that good?

I don’t have an X to compare with, but I can confirm that the 8+ LCD is really really good. I wish my 165Hz 1440p IPS G-sync gaming monitor would look half as good. It took me one return to win the lottery and the hassle was worth it. First one was pretty good though, but it did have slight uniformity issues at the bottom in certain conditions, a dead pixel and a tiny amount of backlight bleed at max. brightness in a dark room (a non-issue IMHO). The dead pixel was the deal breaker.
 
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it doesn't feel that much different, because apple is tuning it naturally.

the first time you use a samsung device it will be set to the "oversaturated color mode" and this makes you feel like you have never seen such strong colors. obviously this effect doesn't happen, when you turn that mode off. but by then, you were already impressed.
 
I had a similar feeling to the OP for my first impression...I guess I was so excited Apple finally adopted OLED and was expecting such a monumental leap in screen quality that I was a little let down. Don't get me wrong, the display looks good but the differences are subtle compared to my plus during everyday use. I wouldn't call it a deal breaker but definitely expected a little more wow factor when turning it on for the first time.
 
I'm incredibly impressed by the screen and I still haven't decided what I think about TrueTone. Right now I am using it about 50/50 split but in the next couple days I will probably decide.
 
Comparing the X with iphone 7+ I'm not noticing a lot of differences screen wise. The X screen wins of course as the full screen effect and more of a painted on look makes it stand out more. Definitely a warmer screen for X vs the more whites of the iphone 7 plus. However, there's simply not enough difference there to warrant spending more on OLED. I do think an X Plus would have changed this thinking big time and will next year.

It's making more and more sense to simply return X and go on with life with 7 plus or find a great deal for 8 plus.
 
Yes I am now I played with some colour changes in the accessibility settings


Not sure how to quote the post here but another user posted this and it’s brill


“Thought my screen tone is just way too warm when I started using the phone, so did some adjustment to make it more natural.

Go to Settings->General-> Accessibility ->Display Accommodation->Color Filter-> Switch to ON->Check Color Tint-> Scroll Intensity & Hue all the way to the right ->Adjust Hue to the left so that the screen color from Red to Purple-ish (Towards Blue). Once you determine the sweet point, scroll intensity all the way to the left. Now you should have a much better display tone.“
 
I didn’t like the yellow tinge I was getting with the factory settings. I made it a touch warmer and my whites are now actually white. I’m happy with the True Tone
 
I wonder how many people here are just used to the overly blue default colour temperature Apple (and the others) have typically used for mobile displays, and so a more neutral white looks yellow (at first) by comparison?

I have a 7 Plus without True Tone unfortunately but I use Night Shift at various levels 24/7 to achieve a similar effect. Even in sunny, midday, outdoor lighting I don’t reduce night shift below 20-25% typically, while at night with warm indoor lighting I push it as high as 75-80%, maybe even 85%.

I have no idea which temperatures in Kelvin correspond to these values because Apple doesn’t tell us but let me say this: the default temperature with Night Shift off is extremely and far too high (meaning blue) and at night ridiculously so. Ever taken a photo of someone using their phone in the dark and noticed the blue glow? Try looking at the reflected glow from your phone in a mirror and then say if it looks blue, white or yellow.

Your eyes adjust to colour temperature which is why after years of training the blue screens of phones can look white but they will also adjust to a more neutral or warm tone of white if you let them.

Once I found f.Lux software I couldn’t use my Mac without it. It’s only a matter of time before True Tone makes its way to Apple’s laptop and desktop screens.
 
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Have to admit I was not blown away by the screen, kinda silly to have to turn off true tone to fix it.

I'm more impressed with the iPad Pro new screen .... is say that is the best screen in an idevice
 
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I don’t have any issues with the iPad Pro screen on my new 10.5 device at all. It’s beautiful for a screen this size
 
Have to admit I was not blown away by the screen, kinda silly to have to turn off true tone to fix it.

I'm more impressed with the iPad Pro new screen .... is say that is the best screen in an idevice

I’m not that surprised really. Apple has been perfecting the LCD technology for years and this is their first foray into OLED territory. 2-3 years down the line when they’ve had a chance to perfect things, those OLED displays in future generation iDevices are going to be breathtaking to behold.
 
True Tone tries to maintain a consistent white level based upon ambient light. Depending on the light source, that highly impacts True Tone. Just so happens most artificial light is terrible.

Using True Tone in direct sunlight makes the display look bluer. Using artificial florescent cubical bulbs makes it looks warmer.

Or just turn it off :)
 
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