Yellow Tint!

[SeanZy]

I really was thinking that I had a perfect iPad. The screen was much cooler than the first one I had, and it looked very nice.

Until I was holding it regularly, and the keyboard came up. I immediately noticed the left side of the keyboard was yellow, and the right side looks like there may be a slight pink tint to it.

Now it is all I see.

This is all a headache. Seriously. I am thinking about just returning it and buying an iPad 2 for a lot cheaper. Its just the hope of a perfect retina display that keeps me interested for the time being.

 

[KevinM2]

Finally decided after a week of using my 64Gb launch day ipad 3 that the screen really wasn't getting any better...

I know the thread title says "Yellow Tint", but my screen had a Pink Tink, in the bottom 1/3 and the right hand side (very noticeable on a pure white screen).

Anyway, I was going to return it for a refund, but the Apple lady I spoke to persuaded me to try a replacement, just to see, so i thought I'd try it one time.

It should be here by Wednesday, but I don't have to return my current one until after my new one arrives, so at least I won't be without for any period.

I do hope this one is perfect, but if it isn't, I will be asking for a refund, and getting a cheap iPad 2

 

[kellte2]

Finally decided after a week of using my 64Gb launch day ipad 3 that the screen really wasn't getting any better...

I know the thread title says "Yellow Tint", but my screen had a Pink Tink, in the bottom 1/3 and the right hand side (very noticeable on a pure white screen).

Anyway, I was going to return it for a refund, but the Apple lady I spoke to persuaded me to try a replacement, just to see, so i thought I'd try it one time.

It should be here by Wednesday, but I don't have to return my current one until after my new one arrives, so at least I won't be without for any period.

I do hope this one is perfect, but if it isn't, I will be asking for a refund, and getting a cheap iPad 2

I have the same "pink tint" with my display, though I haven't seen too many other users make mention of this occurrence. Let me know if your replacement is any better. My screen has little to no backlight bleeding on a pure black background no stuck/dead pixels, so I'm inclined to just live with this.

 

[Sean Dempsey]

Finally decided after a week of using my 64Gb launch day ipad 3 that the screen really wasn't getting any better...

I know the thread title says "Yellow Tint", but my screen had a Pink Tink, in the bottom 1/3 and the right hand side (very noticeable on a pure white screen).

Anyway, I was going to return it for a refund, but the Apple lady I spoke to persuaded me to try a replacement, just to see, so i thought I'd try it one time.

It should be here by Wednesday, but I don't have to return my current one until after my new one arrives, so at least I won't be without for any period.

I do hope this one is perfect, but if it isn't, I will be asking for a refund, and getting a cheap iPad 2

I have had 3 all with this same "pink tint" problem. If this 3rd one bothers me too much over the next 2 days, I'm just going to get a refund and forget about it for a few months and try again.

 

[KevinM2]

I have had 3 all with this same "pink tint" problem. If this 3rd one bothers me too much over the next 2 days, I'm just going to get a refund and forget about it for a few months and try again.

I have the same "pink tint" with my display, though I haven't seen too many other users make mention of this occurrence. Let me know if your replacement is any better. My screen has little to no backlight bleeding on a pure black background no stuck/dead pixels, so I'm inclined to just live with this.

I wonder if either of you restored your iPads from an iPad 2 backup?

I only ask, because that's what I did, rather than re-install everything from scratch.

I read on another thread on here (the perfect iPad 3 poll thread, I think) that someone had multiple iPad 3's, and only had screen issues on the one he had restored from an iPad 2 backup. The rest were perfect screens.

He then restored this one, and didn't restore from an iPad 2 backup, but set it up as a new ipad, and his screen issues weren't there.

Now it could all be a load of baloney, exageration, or a wind up, but I was just looking for a common factor to see if you guys also did restores from an iPad 2 backup?

I think I will set the replacement up as a new ipad and see what it looks like.

Either of you tempted to do a full reset and set up as a new iPad and see what that does?

Cheers,
Kevin

 

[Cantisama]

I wonder if either of you restored your iPads from an iPad 2 backup?

I only ask, because that's what I did, rather than re-install everything from scratch.

I think that is bunk. The first thing I would do with an iPad 3 is follow the welcome prompt and then test the screen. After testing I would restore from my iPad 1 backup and test more. The screen looked the same before and after restoring, and I've done this 3 times.

 

[Magicpie1980]

I wonder if either of you restored your iPads from an iPad 2 backup?

I only ask, because that's what I did, rather than re-install everything from scratch.

I read on another thread on here (the perfect iPad 3 poll thread, I think) that someone had multiple iPad 3's, and only had screen issues on the one he had restored from an iPad 2 backup. The rest were perfect screens.

He then restored this one, and didn't restore from an iPad 2 backup, but set it up as a new ipad, and his screen issues weren't there.

Now it could all be a load of baloney, exageration, or a wind up, but I was just looking for a common factor to see if you guys also did restores from an iPad 2 backup?

I think I will set the replacement up as a new ipad and see what it looks like.

Either of you tempted to do a full reset and set up as a new iPad and see what that does?

Cheers,
Kevin

Its a load of boloney mate, its definitely a hardware issue....

If it helps i started with an all new restore and no icloud or itunes restore

I reckon these yellow pads are as high as 90 percent, my mate was lucky enough to have a perfect one, and that is the only perfect one i have seen.

I have watched lots of reviews and seen 4 or 5 about and they all have a pinkish or yellow hue.

I moved from android (samsung) to apple so i could get constantly good high quality goods, it looks like the curse of samsung screens followed me accross. A yellow tinge or overly blue ting is unacceptable, but i would choose a overly blue against an overly yellow anyday, just no yellow or pink;/

 

[KevinM2]

I think that is bunk. The first thing I would do with an iPad 3 is follow the welcome prompt and then test the screen. After testing I would restore from my iPad 1 backup and test more. The screen looked the same before and after restoring, and I've done this 3 times.

It was just a thought...

 

[Magicpie1980]

It was just a thought...

Mate nice one for trying,

We are all stumped....

I really do blame samsung, i think their mobile screens are ****... And their QC is diabolical.

Lets hope sharp and lg impress and apple can kick samsung screens into touch

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Oh stop with the glue ******** already! Seriously people, when do you think these iPad were manufactured, last night!? What kind of glue takes more than an hour tops to totally harden???

And also, please don't insult people's intelligence by telling them they don't know what white is supposed to look like! Mate I know white from yellow -- also remember the pictures people are posting are only as good as a) the camera they were taken on b) the angle & lighting conditions & c) the screen YOU'RE viewing them on.

There IS a major problem with faulty yellow screens with the new iPad, end of story. Not ALL iPads are affected obviously (well, I hope not!) but people are getting these things home & realising they're not right. Stop telling us that we're wrong because we're not

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One on the left for sure is better.

Yellow screens were a issue back in 2008 with the iMacs and still, well here.

 

[iLukeJoseph]

You also need to understand that color accuracy has nothing to do why people are complaining about the yellow tint, its because the yellow tint is ruining the white tones.. White tones should have been balanced properly while other colors can be "warmer" for "more accuracy".

There is no established norm here because the Ipad3 either gets a very warm color temp or a very cool one, it would really save the customer a lot of time and frustration if everything was calibrated properly or at least a color temperature selection at OS level.

Personally I dont care if warm is more accurate, I want my white tones white and not yellow.

Hi Earl. My name is Luke, how's it going? Good I hope!.

You CANNOT have accurate colors with an inaccurate grayscale. So what you said "I need to understand", is wrong. Grayscale is the foundation that everything gets "laid on". In other words color accuracy has everything to do with what people are complaining about.

I 100% agree that at least color temp should be selectable. Who knows if apple decided to make the grayscale more video accurate, or if Samsung took it upon themselves to. But as everyone (you included) is so used to "blue/white". It would have saved them what sounds like a ton of returns.

Did you (or anyone else) look at that video file that I attached earlier? If you are trying to "compare white", one might as well look at an image that is actually video white. There are shades of white that are brighter than 100% video white. It is called whiter than white (wtw for short). There is very very little content that utilizes it though.

Got me thinking. I didn't take a reading above 100% (as there is really no need). BUT you guys could be looking at (wtw) content. It is possible that the display "clips" at wtw causing a color shift. VERY common on TV's. Even when just looking at 100% white. But at least on a TV you can turn the contrast down (which is the cause of the clipping).

Seriously all, I highly suggest you read this. At least the parts that tell you what grayscale/color calibration/proper color temp/video white is all about.

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Here is my new ipad on the left,ipad2 on the right

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The one on the left looks near perfect. The ipad2 almost looks purple.

 

[jicka]

Hi Earl. My name is Luke, how's it going? Good I hope!.

You CANNOT have accurate colors with an inaccurate grayscale. So what you said "I need to understand", is wrong. Grayscale is the foundation that everything gets "laid on". In other words color accuracy has everything to do with what people are complaining about.

I 100% agree that at least color temp should be selectable. Who knows if apple decided to make the grayscale more video accurate, or if Samsung took it upon themselves to. But as everyone (you included) is so used to "blue/white". It would have saved them what sounds like a ton of returns.

Did you (or anyone else) look at that video file that I attached earlier? If you are trying to "compare white", one might as well look at an image that is actually video white. There are shades of white that are brighter than 100% video white. It is called whiter than white (wtw for short). There is very very little content that utilizes it though.

Got me thinking. I didn't take a reading above 100% (as there is really no need). BUT you guys could be looking at (wtw) content. It is possible that the display "clips" at wtw causing a color shift. VERY common on TV's. Even when just looking at 100% white. But at least on a TV you can turn the contrast down (which is the cause of the clipping).

Seriously all, I highly suggest you read this. At least the parts that tell you what grayscale/color calibration/proper color temp/video white is all about.

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The one on the left looks near perfect. The ipad2 almost looks purple.

This makes sense to me even though I have always preferred cooler screens. I'm wondering how you would explain my screen being very obviously more yellow towards the top and cooler toward the bottom though? I had yellow blotches on my iPhone 4 that went away after a few days but my new iPad has a wide area of yellowish tint at the top it's not spotty like the iPhone 4 was.

 

[EarlZ]

Your whites are white, you just have no idea what they are supposed to look like because your eyes have adjusted to the cheap, poor displays you have been using all your life.

Have you ever seen a properly professional quality calibrated display in a photographer's studio or one of those $5,000-plasma TVs set to Cinema-Mode? If yes, you should know better instead of posting something like you did.

I use a U2410 calibrated with a Spyder3 pro on a daily basis and a couple of calibrated Eizo displays at work, so I know how whites look like and the whites on the Ipad3 are just way to yellow! You should also understand that the Ipad3 screen's color accuracy is not remotely close to a $5,000 or any pro-level Eizo display. Why are we even comparing a $70 screen vs a $5000 screen ?

 

[Rafammx]

Iphone 4s yellow tint

Hello, sorry for my english, here is my case: ive bought a black iphone 4s 16 gb two months ago, when i opened, ive noticed that has a very noticiable yellow tint on the screen, also i have an iphone 4 with that i call a "nice blueish screen color" to compare with my 4s, well, the color tint on my 4s was changing little by little to almost be as blue as the iphone 4, (u may not believe this but its true, i compared the two phones very often), here comes the weird and incredible part: 2 days ago, the sign of edge "E" appeared instead of 3G, and not change to 3g never (ive checked the availability of 3g with the iphone 4 and nothing was wrong with it) so i thought that my 4s was stuck on "E", ive decided to power of the phone and turn it again to avoid that "stuck", when the phone powered on again, my surprise was huuuge: the screen turned yellow again as yellow as the first day or worst, u may call me crazy or this is imposible, but i tell u guys, its TRUE, i have an iphone 4 to compare with the 4s when i want, so, u cant tell me its my eyes getting used to yellow tint, i write this with the hope to someone read it and can start from my experience to try to fix this problem with the iphone 4s, i really hate the new again yellow tint on my phone, thank you.

 

[EarlZ]

You mean you want them blue and not white, but that's fine. I support that.

No, like the rest of the people, I want proper whites.. After spending time with a highend pro-level display on a day to day basis I know how whites look like and the Ipad3 is very yellow even w/o a side by side comparison. The main issue with this though that some screens are just to warm.

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Hi Earl. My name is Luke, how's it going? Good I hope!.

You CANNOT have accurate colors with an inaccurate grayscale. So what you said "I need to understand", is wrong. Grayscale is the foundation that everything gets "laid on". In other words color accuracy has everything to do with what people are complaining about.

I 100% agree that at least color temp should be selectable. Who knows if apple decided to make the grayscale more video accurate, or if Samsung took it upon themselves to. But as everyone (you included) is so used to "blue/white". It would have saved them what sounds like a ton of returns.

Did you (or anyone else) look at that video file that I attached earlier? If you are trying to "compare white", one might as well look at an image that is actually video white. There are shades of white that are brighter than 100% video white. It is called whiter than white (wtw for short). There is very very little content that utilizes it though.

Got me thinking. I didn't take a reading above 100% (as there is really no need). BUT you guys could be looking at (wtw) content. It is possible that the display "clips" at wtw causing a color shift. VERY common on TV's. Even when just looking at 100% white. But at least on a TV you can turn the contrast down (which is the cause of the clipping).

Seriously all, I highly suggest you read this. At least the parts that tell you what grayscale/color calibration/proper color temp/video white is all about.

I've seen it, it looks yellow on the Ipad3. Fine on the U2410 and a couple of Eizo monitors I've tried at work, also looks fine on the super inaccurate Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Galaxy Note. Problem is that not all warm screens are equally warm.

Going back to what I said, 99.% of the Ipad3 buyers will never care about the technicalities of color accuracy and your grey scale discussion, what they want is non yellowish white, feel free to call it blue or whatever since the Ipad3 cannot have a neutral white anyway.

Also I dont own an Ipad3, we just have one at work for comparison and after calibration with the Spyder3 app the white tones are where its supposed to be.

No matter how everyone beats this issue to death, no one will be convinced that yellow = white, 39 pages and still on going and not a single person convinced. Though I believe there are good screens out there.

 

[Oppressed]

I reckon these yellow pads are as high as 90 percent, my mate was lucky enough to have a perfect one, and that is the only perfect one i have seen.

It's not that high. User's perception and dwelling on the issue is blowing this thread out of proportions. If they sold 3 million iPads last weekend then we aren't even seeing 1% of the population of purchasers. There is a good chance half the people on this thread are making themselves believe they have a problem when they don't. It is like spilling a small amount of mustard on your shirt at lunch and you believe your shirt is covered and everyone will see it even when it is just a dot. Granted there are a very small percentage of problems out there, but it hasn't reached epidemic proportions yet.

 

[lianlua]

No, like the rest of the people, I want proper whites.. After spending time with a highend pro-level display on a day to day basis I know how whites look like and the Ipad3 is very yellow even w/o a side by side comparison.

I'd be very curious to see some well-controlled photos of this "highend pro-level" comparison. Based on the expressed level of knowledge of color theory and LCD dynamics, I'm not seeing that.

Please share the chromaticity values and the white temperature you measured. I'm genuinely interested.

 

[EarlZ]

I'd be very curious to see some well-controlled photos of this "highend pro-level" comparison. Based on the expressed level of knowledge of color theory and LCD dynamics, I'm not seeing that.

Please share the chromaticity values and the white temperature you measured. I'm genuinely interested.

Grey scale image from 0 to 255, I'm not the one who measured or performed the calibration here at work as my side of the job does not even require a calibrated display nor does it rely on color accuracy at all.

Again, deflecting the topic to technicalities will never solve anything, looking at the last 38 pages nothing's been accomplished. Most are not happy with their yellow tinted screen, pushing it harder and saying that apple made it that way wont solve it for them either as some are getting screens that are not yellow, regardless of accuracy. If people wanted accuracy in the first place then the Ipad3 is not the right device for them.

 

[dsc888]

Returned for Refund after 4 Tinted Screens!!!

Hey guys,

I came back from the Apple Store today after unsuccessfully buying and returning my 3rd and 4th new iPad. I had returned both previous bad ones to BestBuy both manufactured in the 5th week of production for yellow tinting on the left side and yellow blob on the upper left when held in portrait mode.

Then I went to Apple to buy another one hoping to get a later batch. And I did get ones made on week 9 or first week of March. It looked white in the store and I was happy until I got home and noticed the pink tint. It was actually whiter than my iPad2 on a white screen but the pink was just as annoying and didn't go away after trying to "wear in" the screen at full brightness for 3 days.

So i went to the Apple store and complained and they gave me another one also from week 9 but with different factory codes. Again pink tints but this time on the left half and neutral on the right half when held in portrait mode with the Home button on the bottom. I gave up and returned the unit on the spot for my money back. I am done for at least a month until I hear otherwise.

Apparently Samsung cannot calibrate/manufacture these screens correctly. I check out a bunch of the screens on display at the Apple store and they ALL had tints whether yellow or pink. FYI, I bought the white 16 GB Wifi only unit.

I am hoping the LG comes on board soon. My 27 inch Apple Cinema Display, 17 inch 2010 Macbook Pro with AntiGlare, and iPad 2 ALL had LG screens that were neutral. I did do hardware calibrations of both my ACD and MacBook Pro with an iDisplay One so I do know what D6500 looks like.

I had the unfortunate pleasure of returning enough iMacs with the yellow bottom half screens 2 years ago to make my head spin and I believe Samsung may have made those screens. I know my ACD is made by LG though.

The retina screen is an engineering marvel but the bugs have not been worked out by a long shot. Those of us who do have a discerning eye and those who work in photography or print know when a display simply doesn't look right. So my only advice to folks who are sensitive to these issues to simply either hold off on your purchase or to simply return the unit. It's not worth the hassle. I am aware of the limitation of side lit displays but the amount of out of spec units is a bit alarming.

 

[EarlZ]

Aside from the yellowish whites being "accurate" how about the UI elements that are not white but shows a very visible yellowish cast on them, like the photo app? Is that still considered more "accurate" ?

 

[Alucardx03]

I decided to return my yellow-tinted iPad tonight.

I made the exchange and went to my car to check it out. To my surprise, it was the best screen I've seen. I was really, really happy.

Until I turned on the lights in the car.

The upper righthand corner of the iPad was TERRIBLY scratched. As in, there was metal missing. I took it back into the store and requested another exchange. They happily obliged.

I opened up the new iPad in the store and found the new unit had tiny imperfections in the corners. They exchanged that for the third iPad of the night, and found the same corner issues.

The employee was actually embarrassed. He just kept apologizing over and over. Eventually, I just took a refund. Very disappointing night!

 

[MrJoshua-UK]

I think I did this earlier. But I am going to attach a .mp4 that you can play on your iPad. It is grayscale patterns used for calibration (which you cannot do). BUT look for the pattern that says 100%. This is 100% video white. What white actually is.

I just played this on my iPad3 that displays a pink hue at full brightness on a black image.

When it gets to the white section, it looks properly white and pretty-much uniform.

Thanks for posting the video.

 

[Alucardx03]

Here's a shot of my yellow screen (left) next to another new iPad (right). It's actually worse than this in real life. This shot was taken after trying the "burn in" solution with no noticeable results.

Oh yeah, and here were some of the problems with my replacements... Huge glob of dust under the screen on one of them. And on another, huge (and deep) scratch running down the back.

I'm thinking I'll just give it a few weeks and see if my luck improves then. Funny thing is, it's not just me being picky this time... All of these problems prove serious and distracting in everyday use!

 

[lianlua]

Again, deflecting the topic to technicalities will never solve anything, looking at the last 38 pages nothing's been accomplished.

It solves plenty. The large number of people here who don't know what they're talking about shouldn't be spouting off and stirring the pot.

When you call something wrong or broken, you better have facts to back it up. When you're talking about colors and display performance, the topic is technicalities, no deflection necessary.

What the people here are talking about is their subjective preference, which is not the same thing.

Most are not happy with their yellow tinted screen, pushing it harder and saying that apple made it that way wont solve it for them either as some are getting screens that are not yellow, regardless of accuracy.

Most people are extremely happy with their screens. Most of the people complaining here don't actually have anything wrong with their screens. Some of them obviously do, but nowhere near the lather you people are whipping up.

Whether people are happy or not is irrelevant to whether there's something wrong or broken. For the overwhelming majority, there just isn't.

It's amazing to me that people insist on arguing such a basic point. Not liking something is not the same as it being broken. There are a fair number of off-color screens out there, as you'd expect when you ship a few million of anything. Those customers who are unhappy should exchange them or return them, sure. But the "I paid more than $15 for this it should be perfect lolz" and the "my whites aren't old lady hair blue IT'S DEFECTIVE" hue and cry is all BS.

Some are warmer or cooler than others, and some of those on both ends of the spectrum are outside the target range and should be replaced.

Taking bad photos in incandescent lighting and calling them defective is straight up nonsense.

If people wanted accuracy in the first place then the Ipad3 is not the right device for them.

That's demonstrably not the case.

 

[chancee]

Dude... I've been through eight iPads, and there IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM. I have yet to find one where there is a uniformity of coloration. You can plainly see this by spinning the iPad around and looking at the difference in color tone between the left and right side of the keyboard. It's incredibly distracting when reading white web pages.

I just gave up my iPad 1, I know what the screen is supposed to look like.