iPhone 12 yellow screen

Upgrading to software 14.2.1 on 12 pro max feels like the screen has gone better.. i can feel the font size has gone bigger too... the overall display on default settings is ALMOST there if i compare with XS MAX.. a little warmer than that though but not bothering anymore.. in fact looking better than XS MAX now...

True Tone is turn off and see the difference on full brightness. Left iPhone 12 pro max and right iPhone 11.

Apple customer care representative said it’s normal and protect your eyes.

100% brightness should be similar or not?

What you guys think?

If it is an technical issue Apple should replace our devices.

Regards

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

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 have the pro max and same issue. Only thing that semi works is resetting all settings then turn off the tone. For me this was better than adjusting colors in accessibility but I'm still waiting for Apple to do a few repair program to fix their error...my 11 pro max so far is better than my 12 pro max...

Man I feel your pain. I’ve gone through everything these past couple months to fix it but nothing truly does. Apple failing to work with us with a fix is depressing as well. What I end up doing is using combination of color filters and True Tone on to achieve somewhat clear whites but it still distorts other colors a bit. I turn True Tone off at sunset because it makes the screen orange without ambient light around. Shame on Apple really, shame on Apple.... also notice my screen flickers when viewing pitch black videos. Thankfully I got Apple care on the last day I could so I can request for a replacement if there no fix in a few months . It hurts so much when I look at my iPhone X and it’s better looking that this 12 pro max 🙁

@adeolaex I did get replacement from Amazon and this is exactly the same! Apple support told me I should have ordered from them to avoid such issues. So will probably return this and order from Apple directly. I am worried the one from Apple too will have this issue, but may not too. As there seems to be mixed varieties of iPhones with and without yellow display issue. Apple is going to take a week to 10 days for delivery. Keeping my fingers crossed!

I ordered directly from apple and yet I ahd the same problem with my brand new Iphone 12 Pro.. my 6s is whiter than that phone. So I tried what people are suggesting here..holding a torch to sensors..😂 it didn’t work much so I tried to change the tint and the hue on the settings. Now it is whiter /brighter than my old 6S

I'm just gonna lay it out here. I work in fashion photography. I'm a makeup artist - color is my job.

The display on the 12s is BAD and just plain ugly. The camera for photographing objects is okay but for photographing people it sucks. It has this hyper-realism. It's too saturated and oversharpens everything. Nothing about it is "true" to the subject. The white balance on the display is completely off. When you try to adjust you will still be left with something that's either a little too yellow, a little too magenta, a little too cyan or a little too blue. It is CRAZY making to me. The particular glow of the OLED dispaly is also very unpleasant. The entire time I am thinking "What am I looking at here?" "What does this really look like??". Also, for photographing faces, wide angle is probably the least flattering you could ever opt for.

It's too bad because as an object the phones are really beautiful and feel great to hold - the mini especially. But the display and the camera is an absolute fail as far as I'm concerned. And these phones are supposed to be ALL about the CAMERA! lol

I returned both the 12 and the 12 mini because I was irked every time I had to look at the screen. Not the experience I want to a have all day everyday. I am honestly shocked at Apple. Don't they have artists on their team??

She refers to True Tone I guess. There is a huge thread about this in macrumors site. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/yellow-screen-tint-display-seem-warm-check-here-first.2262691/page-199

On 6s?? Are you sure you did not turn on night mode? or True Tone? This discussion is specific to iPhone 12 Pro/ Max which have inbuilt yellow display.. its in the display panel hardware.

tysm guys I actually fixed it I don’t know what was wrong but I pressed the home button 3 times and it went back to normal, tysm for your help though!

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.

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.

Yes, returning it for a refund is the way to go. That is exactly what I did.

I overlooked a "Pro" device at $1k USD that still has a 60Hz screen, that still has the same big notch from 2017, that has literally zero improvements to Face ID in the middle of a global pandemic, and no Touch ID to supplement Face ID.

I don't upgrade an iPhone to downgrade on the display. Apple can take it back and try to sell to unsuspecting customers. Never again will I buy an Apple product at launch, I will wait 3-4 months.