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P.S. - more yellow = more cheap from a panel perspective!
Many photographers in this thread confirming that many 12's have super inaccurate colors. Some have good colors and are 6500k calibrated. Many do not.
From my experience it would seem it is not the best idea to tell people which screen looks better from pictures, since they rarely can be captured accurately.
I think generalizations like this will only confuse people and if he (who saw the phones in real life) finds the 12 to be more natural, it might just be the better screen.
So i'm gonna show my pictures and story after all, to make a point. I originally didn't want to, because i was not able to capture what i was seeing in real life and based on the pictures, people would probably just say "your mini looks almost the same as the X, why did you even order another one etc...".
So anyway... Here's a picture of the 3 Minis i compared. The one on the left looked just like the others. Likely just because of the angle that it looks different here (you can see the same thing happening on the right side of the one on the right). But they looked all identical, except for mine in the middle maybe being a tiny little bit "cooler", but it might just have been in my head. I looked at different color calibration pictures too and the colors were the same on all of them. So the screens and their calibration seem to be almost identical.
Since i find it highly unlikely that i would find 3 bad screens and they just happen to look the same, i would say this is how they are supposed to be and my 3 year old X is just not accurate anymore, even though i'm having a hard time getting used to the new screen.
Also no black flickering issues on any of them.
Lets look at the next picture.
In reallife the difference between the X and the Minis is much bigger. And you can tell that the angle is affecting things again.
And if you compare the 2 pictures, both phones in the middle look much closer to each other in color, than they would in real life. In reality the X looks much cooler than the Mini. Yet judging by this picture, one would probably instantly say that this one is the best and the one on the left is very bad and should be returned. The one on the right is "okay".
I'm not saying there are no screens that are too yellow and bad. We all know this happens with some every year. I'm just saying that it doesn't always have to be the yellower looking screen that is the bad one. And pictures can fool you.
And many People who used a phone for years will likely tend to prefer the hue they are used to.
We all know that not all OLED colors age at the same speed, so especially iPhone X users likely don't have a very accurate screen anymore. Personally i'm a "light" phone user. Someone who hangs on their phone all day probably got the same or even more screen time in a year, than i did in 3 years, so i also wouldn't count on this not happening yet on 1 or 2 year old phones. Some people are hanging on their screens all day long.
TLDR:
I doubt that it helps to judge and compare screens from photos, unless the difference is really really big.
As a side note:
True Tone on the X changes the screen much less than on the Minis. The Minis get extremely yellow. But all by the same amount, so i guess it works as designed (but hopefully will get toned down)
