iPhone 12 yellow screen

Hello Antonio! I found a solution that works for me and would work for you as well! My new iPhone 12 also had the yellow tint to it so I exchanged it at my local apple store and although the new one was better, it still had the tint to it. My solution is to actually change the color tint of the display by going into your settings < accessibility < display & text size < color filters < turn on and select color tint. You can scroll down and adjust the intensity and the hue. I have my intensity slider all the way to the left and my hue is about 80% to the right which adjust the tint to a more natural color. It has satisfied me and I hope it works well for you!

Ok guys, my wife’s phone had the same problem and it was an easy fix. Go into settings, night shift, and then make sure the two options you see are turned off and the color temperature dial is setting is at the middle. Then go back and make sure Night Shift is turned off, that’s all, your iPhone’s color will be at its best.

Hi guys.

We have 2 iPhones - 12 and 12 Pro.

Here is what I figured out...

When the True Tone setting is on, the amount of yellowish tint is purposely not consistent. It depends on the ambient amount of light. It’s more pronounced in darker conditions and less or nonexistent when it’s bright.

Take your phone outside in the daylight and try to toggle the True Tone switch - you won’t see any difference in the screen color whatsoever.

Very smart and useful indeed!!

There are 3 ways to go around it if you really want to...

1.Turn the True Tone switch off.

You’ll be doing a disservice to your own eyes in dark rooms, because of the amount of blue light hitting your eyes - could be useful but questionably smart.

2. Go to Accessibility - Display & Text size - Color Filters. Turn it on and adjust the Color Tint - Intensity all the way down and Hue is somewhere in the middle or to your liking.

Useful but possibly not very smart, because quite often the screen is too blue. I used it for a few days and then rejected it.

3. Turn off True Tone, turn off Auto-Brightness (Accessibility - Display & Text Size), crank the brightness all the way up and be happy.

Possibly useful but not very smart at all!

By the way, when Auto-Brightness is on, the amount of full brightness varies depending on the ambient light. Smart!

Apple should educate their Techs how to explicitly explain this to their customers.

Hope this helps.

SK

As additional information for everyone; yes you can tweak/play about with the colour filter options deep within the settings.

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Colour Filters [switch "On"] > Colour Tint

... then adjust Intensity and Hue to a point where you feel it is as close to a neutral white as you think is possible

You will likely find that the "Intensity" slider produces a result that is ridiculously overkill (not an understatement) and thus will find you'll probably have to adjust this fully to the minimum point (fully left). After that you'll move on to the "Hue" slider and will have to adjust this as mentioned above until you find a point that you consider to be as dead neutral white as you think is possible, or at least to your best likening.

However the Problems: -

1. You cannot get it to a dead neutral white that is completely devoid of any colour hue/tint whatsoever. The closest you may get, is for a more cool white which has an undeniable blueish hue/tint. It's not by any means a neutral white and this can be seen when putting it next to a true white display, which in my case can be seen when comparing next to my older iPhone XS which has such a neutral white, that it's like eye candy as it blends in amongst all the other colours in a picture. Even my cheaper and now ageing 42inch LED TV has a balanced white.
2. When you do find this cool-white spot on the Hue slider, there is sadly a trade-off. This trade-off may not be a problem to some, however for me it's just to big. You lose slight brightness power output. The iPhone 12 Pro Max does have some good, even great features and for me one of the most rewarding, satisfying improvement that I was very happy with was the increased brightness power output which always helps to make a phone easier to see in bright environments and Sunny days. However this is slightly affected with the Colour Filter enabled.
3. Quite simply, we shouldn't have to take these desperate measures as the iPhone 12 Pro Max should have been designed, calibrated and manufactured with a truly state of the art display (especially with the 1,399 price tag).

If your happy with a slight blueish hue/tint for a much cooler white display (too much in my opinion) and you don't mind taking a knock with a trade-off with slightly reduced overall brightness power output, then you maybe fine with it and if you are then I've inserted a screen capture below of what I found and think is the sweet spot for that. Remember it's a screen capture and not a photo, so does not reflect the real screen's actual tint as it's purely for the adjustment settings only. I hope it may help some, however personally I value brightness power output to much and therefore not prepared to suffer the trade-off.

(screen capture - not photo)

Fixed issue!!!! It’s called True Tone, tap and hold brightness and turn it off

A humble suggestion to anyone who posts to this thread: Please detail out your current settings of...

• Settings / Display & Brightness / True Tone: i.e. OFF
• Settings / Display & Brightness / Night Shift: i.e. OFF
• Settings / Display & Brightness / Brightness (level): i.e. FULL
• Settings / Accessibility / Display & Text Size / Reduce White Point: i.e. OFF
• Settings / Accessibility / Display & Text Size / Auto-Brightness: i.e. OFF
• Settings / Accessibility / Display & Text Size / Color Filters: i.e. OFF

...on both iPhones and ensure they have same settings while comparing. Otherwise whatever typed here will always leave a question mark on readers.

I had all above settings OFF, on full brightness, and compared my iPhone 12 Pro with a display model (12 pro) at the store.

I couldn't detect the difference there, but when I came home and checked the photo again carefully, there's indeed difference and my iPhone (left) is warmer. This is very annoying, and you notice it more when editing videos and photos when color variations increase.

Apple must recognize this, or at least provide communication on acknowledgement and possibility to fix!

I did something similar to what Yolande mentioned ^.

Been feeling like my 12pro display isn’t as bright/vibrant compared to my iPhone X but can’t quite pinpoint the problem until I first heard about the yellow tint from everythingapplepro’s YouTube review.

So I headed down to the apple store physically to compare my 12pro with their display models and although the displays were also “warmer”, the one I possessed was definitely “jaundiced”. Asked the Apple staff about it and he concurs with my observation, so he advised me to give the returns/replacement people a call as it’ll be the best course of action since they don’t have 12pro in stock in most Apple store to replace immediately at once.

so fast forward to the (returns) call.. everything was super chill and easy - it was probably the easiest customer service call in my life (makes me wonder if apple is actually already aware of this problem). The returns ppl gave me the option of replacement by pushing my order into the next available shipment. As a result, I get to continue using this ‘jaundiced’ phone until the stock replenishment at the Apple store where I can just head in to replace this current 12pro.

Would probably also advise anyone else annoyed by their screen to do the same as it’s quite hassle free and you can just keep working the phone you own!

I have the same issue, and here how I fixed it.

1) Go to Display & Brightness: turn off True Tone and turn off Night Shift

2) Go to Accessibility, next select Display & Text Size Turn off Reduce White Point

I just got my 12 Pro max and I also experiencing the same concern with the "yellowish" color display.

But I just followed other comments by changing the color filter and adjusting the hue to 80% and it works for me.

Go to settings > Accessibility > Display & Text size > Turn on Color Filters > select Color tint.

Though, I hope apple fix this and made some update on since we pay a ton of money.

Fixed mine pretty easy. These photos don’t depict color on the finished screen after adjustment yet on 12 Pro and were not taken with a PRO, so don’t use them to judge. But set about like what is shown on these 3 screens and you should have a better picture than your XS. At least it worked that way on mine. So Settings>Display & Brightness SET ===> True Tone OFF

Then Settings>Accessibility>Display & Text Size SET ===>Differentiate Without Color OFF, Auto-Brightness ON and then Color Filters ON and Color Tint check-marked with Intensity adjusted towards the far left until you get the bright white your eyes like.

I have been screwing around with this phone alot, what you just mentioned happened to me a couple of times and i figured out how to fix it... first things first, which you have probably done, turn off tru tone and auto brightness (accessibility settings), once that is done i noticed when i would slide my brightness bar it stopped getting brighter at about 70%, then i noticed it was on low power mode, i must have tapped that button, once i turned that off the brightness worked again, also i keep it just a tiny tad below max, seems like when its on max all the time it dims a little, so keep it just a tad below and you should be all set.

Check you color management on the phone. It fixed my 12

How To Fix iPhone 12 Yellow Screen

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Browse for Accessibility.
3. Tap on Display & Text Size.
4. Scroll for Color Filters.
5. Enable Color Filters and tap on Color Tint.
6. Move the HUE slider to reduce the yellow tone of your display. Tip: You can also adjust the INTENSITY to get the desired result.

This is simply not true.

make sure auto brightness is off. All new 2020 phones have a slightly warmer screen due to blue light eye damage.

please do not worry that you have a defected screen. This is a conspiracy. Make sure auto brightness/True Tone/night shift is off.

In addition to using Colour Filters - Hue and setting True Tone ON, also this is necessary to get a bright a more vivid colors:

Set this OFF: Accessibility - Display & Text Size - Reduce White Point

As this clearly is a software screen calibration issue, reducing the intensity of bright colours does not work either and results about half the brightness the display actually is capable of. By switching the setting off you get the full brightness.