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My 7 display is fine to me, I wouldn't call it yellow. It is different that the bluish hue my 6s+ has. I've never
had an iPhone with a yellow screen. Maybe it's my eyes.

Now I know some are legit yellow, but others are too scrutinizing. If I had to keep returning iPhones, let say
3, 4, 5 times, hey, I'm switching brands.
 
Bryan Bowler said:
It's apparent that you are adamant on your stance (and slightly rude in your response), but I disagree with you. LOCA glue is used on the glass and a different type of adhesive is used on the digitizer. You can disagree with this all you want, but it is an indisputable fact.
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Source that this is what Apple is doing? "Optically Clear" - shouldn't be yellow. It's not glue.

There are two issues at play here.. Piss yellow screens which are defective IMO and then screens with a warmer color temperature, not defective.
 
kre62 said:
Just on this page of the thread several people have commented that they were able to get one of the good screens. Are you even reading the thread? Displaymate obviously tested one of the good screens. Good to hear that its possible to get a great screen. Many, however, did not get one of those.

There isn't one screen on the 7. There are multiple. It's multiple suppliers. One is better than the other.
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Good god, who decides what are the good screens what are the bad ones? Do you have any scientific evidence, supply chain evidence or any other evidence besides your "look next to my 6s the 7 screen is more yellow" bullshi* you keep spouting on and on and on and on?

We have scientific lab test from DisplayMate, we have not a single media outlet spouting about this "Yellow" screen issue, apparently soooooo many people have according to you, do you have a seriel number or product code for the two different screens and which are apparently the faulty ones and which are your so called good ones?

And after looking up your post history, somehow you seem to always have a "yellow" screen problem with your iPhones or iPads since 2012. You keep always spouting about "LGs screens are the bad ones!", then you have a thread with "Get your SAMSUNG panel iPad before the LG&Sharp panels are shipping!". Either you are trolling or you have apparently the worst luck a person could have in getting an "inferior" display on the 5, 5s, iPad 3 and 7 , or you should just get your eyes checked...

We have scientifically measured that the iPhone 7s white point is at 6800k and with a variance of 1.0 to the D65 white standard. And the same article wrote that the 6s screens is calibrated too cool and too much on the "blue" side. Just because you can't get your head around that your 7 looks now more color accurate compared to your 6s, those not mean there are faulty iPhones or "you just got lucky with a 'good' screen"...
 
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This thread honestly makes me question the future of humanity.

There can be crappy yellow screens AND awesome "best LCD screen ever" screens shipping in the same model. These things aren't mutually exclusive.

Just because it isn't happening *to you* doesn't mean it isn't happening to anyone else.

The yellow screens are *not* fixable with color tweaks. Stop telling people to adjust this. It's not the answer.

The answer is to take your phone back and replace it with one that doesn't have a terrible screen. The end.
 
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patrickbarnes said:
This thread honestly makes me question the future of humanity.

There can be crappy yellow screens AND awesome "best LCD screen ever" screens shipping in the same model. These things aren't mutually exclusive.

Just because it isn't happening *to you* doesn't mean it isn't happening to anyone else.

The yellow screens are *not* fixable with color tweaks. Stop telling people to adjust this. It's not the answer.

The answer is to take your phone back and replace it with one that doesn't have a terrible screen. The end.
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http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/16/yellow-screen-iphone-7-fix/

that article proves yellow screens can be fixed with color tweaks. look at the pictures.
 
chrizzz09 said:
Good god, who decides what are the good screens what are the bad ones? Do you have any scientific evidence, supply chain evidence or any other evidence besides your "look next to my 6s the 7 screen is more yellow" bullshi* you keep spouting on and on and on and on?

We have scientific lab test from DisplayMate, we have not a single media outlet spouting about this "Yellow" screen issue, apparently soooooo many people have according to you, do you have a seriel number or product code for the two different screens and which are apparently the faulty ones and which are your so called good ones?

And after looking up your post history, somehow you seem to always have a "yellow" screen problem with your iPhones or iPads since 2012. You keep always spouting about "LGs screens are the bad ones!", then you have a thread with "Get your SAMSUNG panel iPad before the LG&Sharp panels are shipping!". Either you are trolling or you have apparently the worst luck a person could have in getting an "inferior" display on the 5, 5s, iPad 3 and 7 , or you should just get your eyes checked...

We have scientifically measured that the iPhone 7s white point is at 6800k and with a variance of 1.0 to the D65 white standard. And the same article wrote that the 6s screens is calibrated too cool and too much on the "blue" side. Just because you can't get your head around that your 7 looks now more color accurate compared to your 6s, those not mean there are faulty iPhones or "you just got lucky with a 'good' screen"...
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You didnt have to read my post history to figure that out, i stated it in multiple threads. I've had more yellow screens then good screens in Apple products, but I have gotten the good screens on numerous occasions.

If you want to think that all iPhone 7 displays are exactly equal with no variance, then nothing I will say will convince you. You also have to ignore all the evidence in this thread of people getting different, what I believe are better, screens.
 
I mean, every Apple Store has about 10 iPhone 7s out for display. If you think your iPhone is defective, go compare it to the ones in store. If they all look the same, chances are, you are the one that is defective (aka, you got used to overly cool displays and now need to give yourself time to readjust to the new, warmer, better calibrated displays).
 
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gtg465x said:
I mean, every Apple Store has about 10 iPhone 7s out for display. If you think your iPhone is defective, go compare it to the ones in store. If they all look the same, chances are, you are the one that is defective (aka, you got used to overly cool displays and now need to give yourself time to readjust to the new, warmer, better calibrated displays).
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Yep, many have done that including me and found the screen on the 7 I had did not match the display model. The Apple reps did that as well when I asked for an exchange and immediately agreed to exchange the phone. The second one was the same so i returned it. Plenty of reports of people doing the same and getting the better screens that match the display models.
 
Just like Kre said in 2011

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kre62 said:
You didnt have to read my post history to figure that out, i stated it in multiple threads. I've had more yellow screens then good screens in Apple products, but I have gotten the good screens on numerous occasions.

If you want to think that all iPhone 7 displays are exactly equal with no variance, then nothing I will say will convince you. You also have to ignore all the evidence in this thread of people getting different, what I believe are better, screens.
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Okay I admit I was maybe a little bit too harsh in my wording. I am not in saying that there aren't faulty units or anything like that.

The point I was trying to make was just that people should not dismiss their screens too quickly as being "faulty" units just by looking side by side at their 6/6s.

It is easy to trick your eyes into believing one screen is "too" yellow when you compare it to a too "blue" screen.

I just wanted to make clear that everyone who says that their screen is yellow shouldn't run to get their screens replaced, because it could totally be that they are just deceived because of the blue/yellow illusion.

I am not saying there is not the possibility really having a faulty unit.

And again I apologise for sounding too harsh in my other post, but seeing people saying they are going to rush and get a replacement without actually looking if it is really a faulty unit or just a perception issue got me a little fired up.
 
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AndrewR23 said:
Just like Kre said in 2011

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Yeah man I've been on the yellow screen warpath for many years now. Thats why it always riles me up when people say Apple is intentionally moving to warmer screens this year - people say that every single year to justify the yellow screens.


Now you got me looking at my post history. Heres another gem:
 
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AbSoluTc said:
There is no glue. Please STOP perpetuating that lie.
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This is true. But there IS indeed a reason for why the display changes over time. The screen is like a sandwich that despite all the best intentions is fractions out in being totally flat and even. The mounting points of the phone can also be slightly out which distort or bend the screen structure at the tiniest of margins. This means parts of the screen are under slight pressure. Many LCD screens when under different pressure, change the color response slightly as well. A display that shows this very well is the 12.9" iPad Pro. On several of the units I tried, if you press gently on the middle parts of the screen (and I mean gently), the area under pressure goes slightly yellow.

What can happen, after many heat/cool cycles is that the pressure the display is held under changes slightly evening out the display. This is most commonly seen with displays that are not that uniform but become more uniform over time.

My 6s+ followed the most bizarre changes over time. First it was slightly yellower on the right side, bluish on the left. Over time this changed to being yellow at the top. Then over a longer time it evened out and now if you look at it, it is pretty darn even! My 6s+ next to the 7+ is slightly more pinkish overall. The 7+ looks neutral at the top 2/3 with a very slight yellow tint to the bottom third. Everyone I show it to can't see what I am talking about, but I am very sensitive to this and it definitely is there. Finally, the 7+ is brighter on max than my 6s+, not by a massive margin, but definitely brighter. I can also see more "punch" to the colors, such as the apps that have a number count with a red balloon (like 2 new emails)...the red is deeper and more vivid than the 6s+

So once again I still await a perfect display, but it is just about within my tolerance.
 
AbSoluTc said:
Source that this is what Apple is doing? "Optically Clear" - shouldn't be yellow. It's not glue.

There are two issues at play here.. Piss yellow screens which are defective IMO and then screens with a warmer color temperature, not defective.
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And screens that are not 25% brighter or in some cases even as bright.
 
shansoft said:
It doesn't fix the problem. It simply tint the screen with the color of your choice, then you end up losing screwing up other colors.
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not if you color tint it, messing with the other settings messes with the other colors. All that color tint does it changes the 6500k settings.
 
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chrizzz09 said:
Good god, who decides what are the good screens what are the bad ones? Do you have any scientific evidence, supply chain evidence or any other evidence besides your "look next to my 6s the 7 screen is more yellow" bullshi* you keep spouting on and on and on and on?

We have scientific lab test from DisplayMate, we have not a single media outlet spouting about this "Yellow" screen issue, apparently soooooo many people have according to you, do you have a seriel number or product code for the two different screens and which are apparently the faulty ones and which are your so called good ones?

And after looking up your post history, somehow you seem to always have a "yellow" screen problem with your iPhones or iPads since 2012. You keep always spouting about "LGs screens are the bad ones!", then you have a thread with "Get your SAMSUNG panel iPad before the LG&Sharp panels are shipping!". Either you are trolling or you have apparently the worst luck a person could have in getting an "inferior" display on the 5, 5s, iPad 3 and 7 , or you should just get your eyes checked...

We have scientifically measured that the iPhone 7s white point is at 6800k and with a variance of 1.0 to the D65 white standard. And the same article wrote that the 6s screens is calibrated too cool and too much on the "blue" side. Just because you can't get your head around that your 7 looks now more color accurate compared to your 6s, those not mean there are faulty iPhones or "you just got lucky with a 'good' screen"...
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chrizzz,

You weren't harsh at all in your wording above. It's all true. This guy has been adamant about this for at least 6 years and no amount of scientific evidence or well run lab tests will convince this guy otherwise. He's also made stuff up and exaggerated, but later retracted it when he's been called out. Bottom line is he will not accept any scientific proof, tests, or reasoning.

The only thing we can do is try to point out to people that in the vast majority of cases, there is nothing wrong with most people's displays. Of course there are some manufacture defects, but they are a tiny tiny fraction and not the widespread problem he makes it out to be.
 
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Bryan Bowler said:
chrizzz,

You weren't harsh at all in your wording above. It's all true. This guy has been adamant about this for at least 6 years and no amount of scientific evidence or well run lab tests will convince this guy otherwise. He's also made stuff up and exaggerated, but later retracted it when he's been called out. Bottom line is he will not accept any scientific proof, tests, or reasoning.

The only thing we can do is try to point out to people that in the vast majority of cases, there is nothing wrong with most people's displays. Of course there are some manufacture defects, but they are a tiny tiny fraction and not the widespread problem he makes it out to be.
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No evidence exists cause no review site has tested a yellow panel vs a blue panel. Testers all assume, like you have, that all panels are the same.

Look at the pictures in all the threads over the years. Look at pictures of phones in this thread. Read the stories of people comparing their phones to display models and seeing vast differences. If this isnt enough proof for you, youre in denial. The amount of people complaining about yellow screens should tell you its wide enough that people should really be careful and compare screens to make sure they dont get the inferior panel.
 
All I want is the yellow to dissapear at the bottom. My keyboard is half white half yellow. Sometimes it dissapears on iPhones and sometimes not. I have had both happen.
 
Bryan Bowler said:
chrizzz,

You weren't harsh at all in your wording above. It's all true. This guy has been adamant about this for at least 6 years and no amount of scientific evidence or well run lab tests will convince this guy otherwise. He's also made stuff up and exaggerated, but later retracted it when he's been called out. Bottom line is he will not accept any scientific proof, tests, or reasoning.

The only thing we can do is try to point out to people that in the vast majority of cases, there is nothing wrong with most people's displays. Of course there are some manufacture defects, but they are a tiny tiny fraction and not the widespread problem he makes it out to be.
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Bryan you and the other apple defenders in here are operating using the same mentality as the posters in this sapphire thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-7-plus-sapphire-lens-cover.1998488/

"Apple said so, so it must be true"

In the meantime, you can witness with your very eyes the scratch test where a level 6 pick scratched the lens cover. Now people are saying the guy switched picks.

Just like this, you are discounting picture proof and multiple first hand accounts of people with bad screens. Yet you still insist its not a real problem, all is well, and dont trust your own lying eyes.

Good luck trying to convince people their own eyes are lying to them.
 
Yeah there's something wrong. Mine is yellowish and it's not as bright as my 6+ sitting at my desk with normal lights on. I thought it was me this weekend when I thought my 6+ had a better screen. When I put them side by side right now it's clear my 6+ is a brighter, sharper screen. Sigh.
 
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mspman said:
Yeah there's something wrong. Mine is yellowish and it's not as bright as my 6+ sitting at my desk with normal lights on. I thought it was me this weekend when I thought my 6+ had a better screen. When I put them side by side right now it's clear my 6+ is a brighter, sharper screen. Sigh.
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that sucks! comparing to a 7+ or 7?
 
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