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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!

inigou said:
How can you know what week if production are you going to order/get? I received my 4th 12 pro max today, exact same yellow tint than the others and is week 41. And we are in December! I would like to get a more current one.
I order online.
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Welcome to the screen lottery. Good luck, you’re going to need it 🙁. There’s no way to request a specific serial number or production week. It’s all luck of the draw.
Though I wonder if the replacement screen stock at the Apple Retail stores are of higher quality than off the production line .
 
Chuck_IV said:
We’ll have to see how my wife’s new 12 pro looks when we get it. It was ordered directly from Verizon. Should be here Wednesday.

I wanted to wait till January, but we just couldn’t pass up the trade in promotion Verizon is running. They offered $440 for her old iPhone X 64gb. Prior to the promotion, they were only offering a little over $200 for a trade in.

I was able to find a happy point with the color filter on my 12 pro Max, so I’m hoping we can at least do the same with her’s, if it’s got the yellow tint.
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Well, my wife’s graphite 12 pro came yesterday and... it has the yellowish tint, similar to my 12 Pro Max. It’s not that bad and isn’t too far off from her prior X.

I just did a bit of a hue adjustment, like I did on mine, and it is fine now.
 
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Is there any way to see the serial number when ordering online and doing in store pickup because actually picking it up?
 
ghosttrooper said:
Not that I know of. You just get what you get, and if you don't like it you can send the replacement back.
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But, at least in my country in Europe, the express replacement has a cost of 29€. Is free in your country? I can send it back forever until I get a current production paying 29€ each time.
 
inigou said:
But, at least in my country in Europe, the express replacement has a cost of 29€. Is free in your country? I can send it back forever until I get a current production paying 29€ each time.
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Its $29 here in the US as well, unless you have AppleCare.
 
TheAustrianGuy said:
iOS 14.3 RC2 — BIG improvement!
If my eyes are not mistaken, the green hue on min brightness seems to be gone, and the whites are much more iPhone X / iPad Pro 2018 like.
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It has turned my heart around!!! After I read that it is not true and have turned off my life 🙁
 
I don’t know, my 12 Pro Max with G9N panel and production week 41 has perfect whites, but it does suffer from the green blacks that I can see when switching phone ON or OFF.

I know these issues with green black on low brightness was fixed on iPhone 11 Pro last year, so hopefully they fix this also.

I will wait until public 14.3 if not I might take my chances and send it for replacement.

But I’m afraid to receive one with yellow screen and same green blacks...
 
TheAustrianGuy said:
This is not my intention at all.
My phone‘s a F2LDJ, and the green hue is definitely not there anymore.

First I thought I‘m kidding myself as I had forgotten to turn off the color filter, but it‘s still gone after I turned it off.
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Mine is also F2LDJ and as I said above, my screen is perfect / has only the glowing green at boot / power off.

I really hope it will be fixed by 14.3 final release next week.

Can you test this?
Switch off the phone and go to a room / bathroom with lights off.

Switch on the phone and pay attention to see if the screen turns green while booting at Apple logo.
 
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Erw88 said:
Editing a color filter is not a solution
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If it gets your display to where you are satisfied, then YES, it is very much a solution.

I’m not saying it works for everyone but in our cases, our brightness was about the same as our old phone but there was more of a yellowish tint. Nothing extreme.

So we have no reason to play a panel lottery when I can make our displays look as good as our prior phones, with a simple adjustment.

I’d love for them to just add more detailed adjustments to allow everyone to adjust their displays properly.
 
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Today I got my 4th purchased pro max and the exact same yellow warm screen (have been returning progressively and ordering new ones) and is the 7th iPhone 12 pro max I tested. All I have to say is that I surrender. I can’t believe anyone saying his display is perfect. Statistically, having tested 7 different brand new iPhones I should have noticed a minimal improvement. No, they all were the exact same. All warm.
I’m keeping one and returning the rest of them.
It gets you exhausted. 1st world problems, I know...
 
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inigou said:
Today I got my 4th purchased pro max and the exact same yellow warm screen (have been returning progressively and ordering new ones) and is the 7th iPhone 12 pro max I tested. All I have to say is that I surrender. I can’t believe anyone saying his display is perfect. Statistically, having tested 7 different brand new iPhones I should have noticed a minimal improvement. No, they all were the exact same. All warm.
I’m keeping one and returning the rest of them.
It gets you exhausted. 1st world problems, I know...
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Compared with my friends 11 Pro Max and XS Max, the 12 Pro Max I have has perfect whites.
XS Max > More blueish kinda of white
11 Pro Max > White, but not as bright as 12 Pro Max.

All these tests should be done with TrueTone, NighShift OFF and most important Auto-Brightness off! It makes a hell of a difference this option alone.
 
Well, today I received my replacement, serial starting G0ND. The same yellowish screen, raised blacks, and all the issues described in this forum. This time I will return the device for a refund and I will stay with my perfect iPhone X for a while. What a shame. I'm pretty pissed off.
 
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Please, help me decide to keep it or not! 😕 I took some pictures to compare both screens, iPhone 12 PM (bigger) and iPhone X. To my eyes I can see the iPhone 12 Pro Max looks warmer than my iPhone X. But to my DSLR there is no so much difference. Bothe phone with TT off, auto-brightness off, screen brightness at 50%.

Information about my 2nd iPhone 12 pro max

Serial number: G0NDT******
Colour: Pacific Blue
Production year: 2020
Production week: 49 (December)

Other issues:
  • under 20% screen brightness, black areas when playing videos are lighted in the screen, not completely black (off pixels) as my iPhone X
  • Camera shadows issues. See the problem here:
 

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