My launch day 12 Pro has a slightly warmer screen (not yellow) compared to my 11 Pro and I prefer the screen on my 11 Pro. The screen on my 12 Pro is even except at an angle when it shifts to blue. The funny thing is that I use True Tone on my MacBook Pro and iPad Pro and those screens look fine to me. With True Tone off on all devices, my 12 has the brightest and whitest screen by far. I think I have spent too much time checking for faults on the 12 Pro and should just enjoy it. I also should have turned in the 11 Pro and never compared it to the new 12.
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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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Did you see my video in the post Below?
Is it less noticeable?
Just to confirm, you are in a pitch black room, with brightness at the lowest level.
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IPhone 12 OLED - black smearing
I wrote a post already on this, but I didn’t know how to call the issue. I have since learnt it’s called OLED smearing. I understand that all OLED screens do it a bit, but I do not know if my screen is worse than others, from this point of view. Can you test if the same happens on your OLED...forums.macrumors.com
Yup mine does the same thing. iPhone 12.
The warm one is slightly more yellow, yes. The one on the right looks normal, and unless the phone looks worse in person, than in the picture, I really don't see ether one looking that bad based on my experience with warmer displays and what I'm used to looking at. I would encourage those complaining to also look up Samsung panels from this year. Apparently when I was doing my research on the questions I had about the issue, I came across info suggesting the warmer display isn't limited to Apple and there are reports of other phones using the same panels also being more warm. I just don't have the exact information on me right now.
I think the one on the right looks great? What’s wrong with it?
I don’t think it’s equal to compare it to your 11, the screens are so different that I think they will always vary. (OLED vs LCD)
Unless the picture colors are totally wrong, keep the one in the right. As ant the ninja said, iPhone 11 is LCD, very different technology and colors.
Any documentation to support this as a fact? I’d be slightly feel better if it’s true. Knowing this is supposed to be a normal thing.
I would consider keeping it if the were not for the off axis colour shift. I prefer the one on the left as it remains static.
a phone with compromises this year.. didn’t read or write in a single forum for mi Xr ..
In my experience photos can’t really capture what your eye sees..
I’m just very surprised the smearing issue isn’t discussed more, especially in those screens that do it more, like mine.
a simple slow scroll up and down Shows it very clearly
again other people don’t use the phone in those conditions or not sure why they arent bothered by it
I can see it on high brightness even. I might be crazy but i think my xr does it too to a lesser degree.
Again complete nonsense.
If this was true, then by deduction the screens of the iPhone 12s that are cooler are missing the ceramic layer.
Which is obviously not the case
When I was looking up this issue after seeing the warmer tint on my 12 pro max, I stumbled on an article talking about either the X, or the XS Max, one of the two and how the OLED panels used aren't pure RGB like LCDs, and therefore having more green pixels. They were referred to as Diamond gird or similar term. I'm wondering while my particular phone looks and works fine, if people complaining about the overly warm tint are seeing the affects of having more green pixels vs pure RGB. I think they termed what i'm saying here as RGBG.
But is not this panel the same than iPhone 11 Pro? Super Retina bla bla bla. if so, that theory doesn’t work as there are a lot of 11 pros with cold non yellow/green panels.
I've never owned an OLED device until now. So I have no personal experience with older iPhones, or any phone with an OLED panel prior to the 12 pro max. I am simply going by my experience with display tech in general and how I understand things to work, based on my own experience with displays I've used, and what I have read.
I can tell you though, while LCD and OLED are two completely different technologies. When I calibrated a Samsung monitor to cinema settings it was much more warm looking then any of my other displays with the same calibration. That's just comparing LCDs, and an OLED wasn't in the mix then. The factor that remains the same here though is in my case both warmer displays were Samsung, and I have read that they tend to have warmer displays then other manufacturers. Samsung Makes the panels for the iPhone 12 models. The displays may have looked different on older phones because they were either LCD, or an LG panel instead, not to mention any changes Apple may have made to their calibration specifications for the new phones.
But as far as I know, my iPhone X device has a Samsung oled panel and whites are near perfect. Also I think this year LG is making panels for iPhones too.
for your information samsung S20 have exactly the same green shift after 45 °.
I compared yesterday.
so, This is not LG panel that give this effect but samsung panel.
It seems that LG panel don't do this from other testimony.
Moreover some Samsung amoled panel have a green shift like s20
but i saw on s20 ultra the shift is more multicolor ( melange of green, blue, red) as you less notice it.
Sure Samsung sold to apple the panel from the s20 serie but keep the best one
for him.
We just have to look at S21 panel to know how will be IPhone 13 and maybe middle year Iphone 12.
I really would like to see a LG panel, it seems there is other issue that the green shift.
I compared yesterday.
so, This is not LG panel that give this effect but samsung panel.
It seems that LG panel don't do this from other testimony.
Moreover some Samsung amoled panel have a green shift like s20
but i saw on s20 ultra the shift is more multicolor ( melange of green, blue, red) as you less notice it.
Sure Samsung sold to apple the panel from the s20 serie but keep the best one
for him.
We just have to look at S21 panel to know how will be IPhone 13 and maybe middle year Iphone 12.
I really would like to see a LG panel, it seems there is other issue that the green shift.
That was the point I was bringing to the discussion and what I've seen doing some research. The color tint doesn't seem to be an Apple specific issue, but more of a panel manufacturing quirk. In my post above I also referenced a Samsung LCD ALSO having a warmer tint compared to other display i've compared. So it seems like a Samsung thing.
For quite a few years I tried to avoid Samsung products because of the low quality problems I had with a couple displays quite a few years back. Recent Samsung products i've tried haven't been so bad though. FYI, I have an LG LCD TV, and when I first calibrated it to the Cinema settings I had to get used to it's warmer look as well. It seems like each display just has it's own look and feel and as many others have already stated in quite a few places. It's pretty much a waste of time to compare and expect things to be EXACTLY the same. Maybe at some point, Apple will make their own displays again, and be completely in house. Seems like they are going that way for every other major component.
Yes, Your are right.
Concerning the warm white, i think it will be the same with the LG panel or very next, as for this this is a choice from APPLE. A really bad choice for me.
Dxomark measurement : iphone 12 pro max
S20 ultra
the white on the iphone is not correctly calibrated
S20 ultra
the white on the iphone is not correctly calibrated
Apple has acknowledged a future software fix, so maybe the color profile they used for the display is a bit off, and some panels show it more than others. Let's see if they fix it. I do know one thing though. I don't want to be looking at a display that goes the other way and is too cool. Then it's too bright and hurts my eyes.