iPhone 12 yellow screen

It’s like that because iPhone new to OLED. so hopefully they bring out a update to fix it, or they have messed up. But the phone supports vision and HDR so don’t know why the colours are dim and bland

Couldn't agree more. The 12 pro is a beautiful machine and the setup was extremely easy. I just noticed a lot of what this thread is about with the yellow tint to the screen, when I was comparing. I am also upgrading from an iphone X and am sorry to say that I'm left feeling disappointed with the 12 pro display so far!!

I tried tweaking the color filters on the new phone because I liked the look of my iphone X much better. Having read most of this thread however, it's obvious other users noticed the same thing! Really frustrating but am hoping that apple will address this in future updates.

Technology................it's never easy, right?!?!?

Same experience here. My 7+ had nice, crisp whites. The 12 Pro I got today there’s no whites at all, anything that should be white is a weird dingy off-white that’s honestly pretty off-putting. Really disappointed with this.

I'm returning mine, I just cannot get used to the yellow tint. Color filters is not the solution. We should not need to do this, it is a bandage to a problem that should not exist in the first place. Real solution would be to add a white balance trigger on the display settings to that users can **only** shift the white tone vs throwing in an additional blue filter on top, which is what the color filters are doing. But there is a slim chance that Apple will do this.

If I'm paying $1k for a "Pro" device, I expect the display panel to be as good or better than my 2 year-old MacBook Pro and 3-year old iPad Pro.

I returned my 12 Pro as well. Completely unacceptable on a $999 USD phone. As long as people are complacent, Apple will continue to ship subpar displays. Unless they see an increase in returns, the issue will remain. Before returning I visited 2 different Apple stores to compare my 12 Pro to the ones in display, and ALL were equally bad or worse. All of them noticeably worse than the display on the XS and 11 Pro, as well as my MacBook Pro and iPad Pro.

I gave Apple a pass on not adding a 120Hz display, not bringing Touch ID back (on the power button or under the display), not improving at all Face ID, as if they were unaware that face masks will be our new normal for the foreseeable future, but will not overlook this yellow display. Sorry Apple.

I did go into the settings display and text it does improve if you put HUE on around 80%. But yes, still haven’t got them vivid colours. Problem is apple so far behind with OLED. Phone is still 60hz. But what you said about the Face ID needs to go if they wanna get rid of that notch. I had a mate 20 pro couple years back Touch ID is the way forward in a screen. iPhone 12 nothing special. Just new design and a power chip. Lacks 120hz display or even 90hz would of been nice but 60hz is taken the ****. They went on about gaming with the phone is next level but even the worse chips can run games at 60hz. but overall it’s the worse iPhone since 6.

I bought a 12 Pro on release day as well, and just wasn't happy with the display, but couldn't put my finger on what was wrong. It wasn't till I had a reason to start up my old XS Max and has the two side by side that it really showed the issue with the yellow tint on the new 12 Pro.

I took the phone back to the Apple store yesterday, and the very helpful assistant got another 12 Pro out to compare with mine, and hers was even worse. She then got another, and that was the same as mine, but neither were as good as my old XS Max. They didn't have any phones in stock to replace my 12, so I just returned it and got a refund. So back to using my old XS for the moment.

There is definitely a problem out there with new 12 Pro devices and if you have one, it is worth comparing with another phone if you can. Set the the display to Light, the same brightness level and True Tone on and the Wight will have a yellow/dirty tint to it.

The yellow tint is clearly visible with true-tone OFF. Please stop comparing with true-tone on as others will just blame true-tone and diminish this issue.

I suspect that there are just lower grade panels being used in the 12/12 Pro when compared to the XS or 11 Pro or that there is a factory issue with the application of the "ceramic shield" which is making the displays look significantly yellower this year. This is just me speculating.

Either way, if you notice it and it bothers you, please return the phone. Do not settle on such a premium device. That is what I did.

Don’t talk wet, it’s because apple so far behind in OLED technology. People reporting problems with the yellow, they is no vivid colours it all pale. I’m comparing with a pixel 4 OLED display and the pixel 4 have better a colour and Better illume. Plus the OLED display is only 60hz compare with Google 90hz and Samsung 120hz

Had exactly the same thing, even jumped on a chat with apple support. The told me nothing is wrong with the phone its at its true colour wart the due to apples research into keeping our eyes healthy, right.

however! I toggled True Tone a couple of times and boom, whiter than the my previous X side by side!

Before you knock @Jon Kane reply about shining a light, please try it. I was pleasantly surprised as even manually adjusting it didn't do what this trick did. Hint the Auto Brightness switch is in Accessibility.

Hi , I have an iphone 8 plus and I work in a multimedia shop in Belgium and when first using the iphone 12 showroom model I also noticed that the contrast is lower compared to mine or even the iphone 11 showroom models , I fixed it for a bit in the settings setting on ‘more contrast’ but its still not 100% like the older versions , I don’t know why apple did this but its a bad thing.

Same problem with me and I compare my iPhone 12 pro and all other iPhones. Also, I compare my iPhone with my all my friends who they have iphone 12 pro it is the same.

The display is annoying and yellowish!

I hope there is something to do to fix this problem.

Oddly, my phone seems to have repaired itself of this problem. I compared it to my iPhone 7+ last night and the yellow tint is now gone. ????? Does the OLED display in the new phones have a break-in period or something?