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iPhone 12 Pro Yellow Screen/Tint? Display seem "Warm"? Check here first!
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Did those people who got good displays post a comparison with an older iPhone?
No offense, but half the people who posted on this thread are not tech savvy. People were posting screenshots for God's sake. 😂
You dont have enough data points to make that conclusion. you only have your own limited experience.
Here is what we can conclude based on your experience:
Your phone is yellow. There are also 5-6 yellow display phones at your personal local apple store.
Thats literally it. Thats all you can conclude.
Screen veterans in this thread have gotten non yellow screens. I've seen them as well at 4 different apple stores. Non yellow screens do exist. Within a month or so, they will all be non yellow.
This is a worse year than others, but I remember the iPhone 7 and iPhone X both were bad yellow years. Both ended up having plenty of good screens in the wild, just took 4-6 weeks after launch. Looks like this year is similar.
Some of the people in this thread have been fighting this for 10 years same as me. If they say they got a good screen, thats all I need. We've been battling this together a long time. I'm 100% sure they know a good screen.
Oh wow. Im in the USA and we had a good guys here too. Think it went out of business in 2003 ish.
How do you know they're the same people? I would trust someone like you if they say the got a good screen, but not everyone on this thread is like you.
I took this photo 10 years ago. This is my iPhone 4. This is the official start of the yellow screen issue that me and @kre62 are talking about. Apple has been doing this way before OLED. Way before TT. Way before any of that. It's not OLED, it's not TT. It's poor calibration. It's not glue. Lemme know if you have any questions
Also people are posting useless comparisons as all the camera apps are set to manual white balance. If I shoot an iPhone 12 next to an XR the XR actually looks like the yellow screen when its the other way around. You have to set up manual white balance to show a proper comparison. It's also why the iPhone 12 blue color looks MUCH BETTER in person than in all the crummy photos people are posting.
So yes indeed. People are not at all savvy when taking photos in general which is the whole point of iPhones doing so much computation photography. The average person has no idea how to process photos which is why pro photographers will never completely go away.
My conclusion is my issue is a True Tone issue. When its off the screen is a much cooler bluish/green tint. But enabling true tone in lower /indoor light the screen get SUPER warm. In bright or outdoor lighting its much more even and pleasing. True tone was never meant to be this harsh, just slight variations based on lighting. But whatever is on the 12 is just obnoxiously obvious.
Even so the 12 screen is not comparable to my XR and 2020 iPad pro but close enough to not be jarring. But I know white is a problem with OLED.
Even so the 12 screen is not comparable to my XR and 2020 iPad pro but close enough to not be jarring. But I know white is a problem with OLED.
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Totally. I mentioned that in a previous comment. If you also use your phone in a yellowish lit environment, it'll look cooler than it is, and vice versa.
Thats where True tone is supposed to help, problem is the 12 goes WAY OVERBOARD.
Great example. Andrew here is a fellow screen warrior, so is thedoggfather. They got good screens, and they know screens.
I’m pretty sure it’s not what they wanted (they would want a color-accurate display), it’s just what Samsung or LG is delivering and Apple is tolerating it.
Edit: Or if there is an actual screen calibration process during assembly (it wouldn’t surprise me if there isn’t), then it may be Foxconn and friends messing it up.
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boom, we have a critical thinker
And the only reason Apple is tolerating it is because their customers are tolerating it. hence why this thread exists every year - send them a message!
Once again, no, it isn't. Good screens have been proven to exist in the wild and at apple stores. The rate of good screens in the wild will continue to increase in the coming weeks.
Read the thread more carefully to see plenty of incidents where people got replacements that were much better than their original models.
My screen is perfect. In fact with the TT off its too blue, with TT on its perfect in most cases. People have to realize TT will change based on the ambient light in the room, or even inside vs outside.
At times inside it may have a slight yellow tint, I go into another room with a different set of light bulbs and it crystal white. In ALL scenarios the text is crisp and colors are beautiful. When I run a 4K HDR 60 FPS youtube video its outstanding.
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My screen feels a bit warm, but not flagrantly. Think if I exchange it odds are I get a better one?
I think it may just be more dramatic Tru Tone. I can walk from room to room with different amount of light and watch the screen shift from warmth to cool and vice versa. It’s not usually this dramatic.
I think it may just be more dramatic Tru Tone. I can walk from room to room with different amount of light and watch the screen shift from warmth to cool and vice versa. It’s not usually this dramatic.
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Update from me. Received my second express replacement today and still not really happy. From left to right: original 12 Pro, first, and second replacements. The first replacement might actually have a better screen but it didn't fix the overall yellowness compared to my 11 Pro (which I used to take this photo). It also clearly had more yellow in the back glass which was unexpected. The original and second replacement both have a very yellow cast when viewed off-angle, while the first replacement in the middle does not. The second replacement also seems to not have quite as strong of colors, as clearly noticeable in the photo comparison, where it looks like a completely different season compared to the other two. Honestly I feel like the second replacement actually looks slightly less yellow but that may be because the colors themselves are already weaker. Regardless, it still has the yellow cast off-angle like the first phone. I'm currently speaking with Apple support again about another replacement, but at this point if I had to choose I might go with the first replacement even though the back glass has more yellow in the blue color. Here's hoping the third time is the charm.
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Howd you get them to send you 2? Thats impressive. Just cur what color iPhone is yours?
Lol how many times over the years have we had to explain this to people? As if the chips sending the signal know what the display looks like on the outside.