iPhone 12 yellow screen

I have just notice this. Go to settings go on wallpaper and click on your preview of your Home Screen look at the vivid colours of the apps and screen in general, now compare it with the actual Home Screen.

Could you please post a photo about it?

I understand that the photo isn’t really good for comparison, but anyway, just to get a feeling about the difference. Thank you.

Edit: I already asked for replacement and sent my 12 PM back.

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.

Come on guys, really do we need to just stay there a test all the possible settings?

They rejected to change my phone or repair just because they said a new iOS will solve this issue; but I'm still waiting a new update and clearly this display is the worst ever for iPhones.

If after more than one month they haven't issue any iOS update, this probably means that is an hardwired problem and they are just waiting... maybe to avoid that all the people will give the phone back.

No, that's total bs.

Apple have built their reputation on having things that "just work". Colours are always right on their devices out of the box, you're not having to go in and fiddle with every setting to get it to look passable.

I love the iPhone 12 Pro Max - it has many great qualities. But yes - a fix hasn't come yet. I'm probably going to send it back while I'm still in the return period and use my old iPhone X. If they fix the problem in the new year I'll probably purchase the device again.

OK so long story short.

I bought iphone 12 pro max on launch day. Since then changed my device 4 times.

All last 3 had green tints and bad flickering and yellow tint.

Going back to apple like crazy.

Setting up again and again made me crazy.

But in the end my 4th device did the trick.

It has NO green tint or flickering and the display is much better. No yellow hue. I would say still its a bit yellowish (only a bit) than XS max but I can deal with it.

I am happy with it and will keep it now.

I still went through a lot of pain going back to apple and changing my device 4 times, setting it up 4 times.

But what ends well is all well.

Hint: If your device is green and flickers it is a hardware issue NOT software. Return it!!!

Hint: I compared 4 other display models. All were a bit yellow with my XS max. I think this could be fixed with a software update.

Flickering and green tint is hardware issue.

Good luck.

You just fixed boosting "brightness", in the most inefficient way possible. Accessibility / Display & Text Size / Auto-Brigthness = OFF and Display & Brightness / True Tone = OFF gives you full manual control to set your own brightness anyway. That has NOTHING to do with the color display of the screen.

If you have another iPhone, using exact same settings, difference is clearly visible, on solid white image or any photograph really.

I tested and disabling Auto brightness does not give more brightness. Without Auto brightness I just have to adjust brightness manually all the time. That is very inconvenient. Disabling Reduce White Point works much better. White point has a lot to do with the screen color calibration.

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.

I just received the iphone 12 pro. First thing i noticed when activated was the screen was lacking contrast and colours appeared off caused by a yellow tint. After hours going through all the settings and reading others comment about so-called fixes [that dont work] i find this very unacceptable for a product especially with quite a hefty price tag. You should not have to go and change display colour filters, warming tones etc etc.. to try and amend - this does not rectify the issue. I dont use true tone or night shift as this simply makes the issue worse. There is no true black or white on this screen.

As a printer and photographer i feel like Apple is taking the p*ss out of us by releasing such a poor quality item. Hence i have now arranged for a full refund and will return the phone. Some of you may not even notice the yellow tint as we all see colour differently but this does appear to be quite an issue as reported online and one i think we as consumers should not accept it.

If it was supposedly a software issue there should’ve been a software update to fix that and there hasn’t been yet. So yes I agree with you Apple should replace all of our devices because this is not right my 11 Pro Max is better than the 12 Pro Max and I am very unhappy. Apple what are you gonna do to fix this? Because obviously it is not a software issue.

It is a software issue, screen is very Capable of pure whites. If anything they might be fixing it as we speak. Screen is never gonna be as vivid as the 11 due to being OLED but you will get better picture overall due to the blacks. But hopefully it comes. Have you tried messing around with the HUE setting etc

I think Apple is preparing a bigger software update as there seems to be other issues with iOS 14 too. Battery drain etc.

I don't see why my iPhone 12 mini couldn't be fixed with a software update as I can pretty much fix it by fiddling with the settings myself. But if the defected screens cannot be identified or each of them would require a different calibration, then a software fix is not possible.

What I have seen, OLED displays always have more vivid picture than LCD's.

It's interesting that by disabling Reduce White Point, enabling True Tone and adjusting Hue the 12's screen looks pretty much the same as X's OLED-screen with Reduce White Point enabled and True Tone disabled.

I agree with you!

I work with graphic design, illustration, photography, etc. and I am bothered by this warm screen issue. I already replaced it with a new iPhone 12 Pro and it’s the same problem!

I am considering to return it and purchase an iPhone 11, but I was just hopping there will be a softwear update that can address this issue.

It’s alot of money $1,000 for a phone that you will not be able to see the colors properly. I really hope this will get solved soon!