iPhone 3G S has yellowish tint

I'm probably going to do this too (complicated only by the fact I live 300 miles away from the Apple Store I bought it from).

For people who do return/exchange, could you please come back here afterwards and report on your success at getting a good screen, along with the build week indicated by the serial number (4th and 5th digits).

Hopefully data like that will help determine when it is "safe" to go back into an Apple Store...

I just got my 4th iPhone 3g s exchanged and this one is a winner. My first one was a week 23 and it had a fugly yellowish tint to it. Not only did the screen look yellow but it also looked dirty. Exchanged it twice at a local Apple Store with no luck 😟 both with similar yellowish, dirty looking screens. I kept it for about a week trying to see if I can adjust to it but I really couldn't knowing the fact that both my co-worker and boss both had a 3gs with nice, non yellowish, vivid screens so I went back to the Apple Store and exchanged it one last time. This one I got is a week 26 and even tho the screen isn't as white as my old 3G, it was much less yellow with vivid colors so I decided to stick with this one. Oh yeah, my 2nd and 3rd units were both week 25. My co-worker had a week 24 and my boss had a week 26. If you guys are looking to make an appointment with the genius bar, I wouldn't. Just go back to the store and ask for an exchange. They can't say no within your 14 days. If they do try and give you a hard time just return it and buy another one :P

Can anyone post a picture of a screen that is only yellow at the bottom? Is it very noticable or only faint? I am trying to figure out if my screen is "yellow" at the bottom or if my eyes are playing tricks on me. 🙂

I have no idea what people are talking about when it comes to a "yellowish" tint. Mine 3GS doesn't look quite as sharp as my 3G, but I don't detect any yellow tint. Are you guys just looking for problems?

I have gone through three 3GS' so far for various hardware issues. My first one had a cool "white" screen, the second one was yellowish only towards the bottom (indicating a problem), and this third one is yellowish throughout the entire screen. I'm guessing if it's the whole screen, this can be fixed with a software update, but when only part of the screen is discolored, that sounds like an issue to me.

Correct. I am under the same impression. A screen that has a partial yellow bottom must have a hardware issue that needs an actual replacement. A screen that has a uniform "warm" (yellow) color, more than likely can be fixed with a firmware/software update by changing the color profile.

I posted this elsewhere a few days ago. There is a yellow problem, but there seems to be 2 issues for the same thing.

1 - Entire screen is fine, except for the bottom 1/3 that is yellow. - Hardware

2 - Entire screen is uniformly "warmer" (yellow). - Software

Most people have either a 14- or 30-day return policy from Apple or AT&T. Hopefully OS 3.1 will be out within 2 weeks and if the issue isn't resolved at that time, I'd say asking for a replacement is not a bad idea.

Keep in mind that your iPhone's are under a 1 year warranty (w/o AppleCare), so you can make a Genius Bar appt. at any time and if there is something wrong even a month from now, barring accidental damage, the iPhone is eligible for replacement.

On my 3rd 3G S now as I could no longer live with a white iPhone, the back casing was turning pink due to overheating. Anyhow, this replacement is a week 26 model and still has the yellow tint towards the bottom of the screen. There’s probably a slight improvement from my last 3G S (week 21), but it’s still visible.

Are you going to keep it? Can you take a picture so that we can all see what it means to have a slight yellow tint at the bottom of the screen? Don't all phones have this since the LED is most likely built at the bottom of the device?

I have the same problem with my 32gb black. I made an appointment with a Genius and he told me it was the manufacturing process. Let me know if you are successful. I too am very disappointed in this version of the phone.

Yes, I think I'm going to keep this one. They replaced it by putting the full amount on a gift card, in which they used to purchase the phone again. This means my 2 weeks return date and 1 years warranty starts from today. This seems to be the normal procedure over here in the UK. Unfortunately I don't have a good enough camera to capture such an image, and nothing to compare it to. I replaced my original 3G 6 times, and none was for yellow tint issues.

After living with my 3Gs for almost two weeks I have decided to keep it. The yellow tint at the bottom is really not that bad and I am looking for it when I notice it.

In general I do not notice it and if I tilt the phone a little one way or the other the display looks slightly blue.

If I show the phone to someone who does not know about this screen problem they do not notice it.

Love this phone!

To all of you hoping Apple will acknowledge and fix yellow screens. I am letting you know that they won't. They say the screen was designed that way and that each phone will have a variation of that yellow tone. I got a week 22 phone that was worse than the week 24 phone that had battery issues. I am seeing about sending this crappy week 22 one back and just getting my money back and washing my hands of Apple. I wish you all well with your phones and hope Dave got his concern addressed.

I got my replacement iPhone in the mail today and its the same exact thing as my last one....yellow tint on bottom third of the phone. This one is a week 27! and it still has the yellow tint...I'm not sure what I'm going to do, this is extremely frustrating

I have gotten 6 replacement iPhone 3gs's and I got another one yesterday and I got a week 26 and it's perfect no yellow but a blue instead but now the chrome on the edge is messed up bit I'm keeping it because I see people that get week 27 are still yellow I'm gonna keep mine until apple fixes the yellow screen