iPhone 12 yellow screen

Shame on you Apple why not include a bigger battery and keep same display quality. We all know that you did this on purpose to increase battery life. Always finding ways to make more Profit. Typical for Apple let’s remove headphone jack so they buy the AirPods. Let’s remove the charger block so they buy the MagSafe and MagSafe cover. Environment excuse! Please don’t sacrifice quality or this will be your downfall one day.

The only change that affects the iPhone 12 & 12 pro display color is to enable color filter and then choose color tint (under setting->Accessibility->Display and Text Size->Color filter) set the hue to somewhere 70%-80%. However, that will give the display a little blue white (not true white), which I don't think improve much in term of color display accuracy. I have just stopped by at Apple store today for this screen issue. The tech there run some diagnotic test, and the the screen is defected, and I was offer a replacement. However, I looked at all the iPhone 12 model in store. They all have the same warm yellow tone. I guess the warm yellow tone on all iPhone 12 model is here to stay. If you don't like the warm yellow tone or the blue white after turn on the coloring filter, I guess the only option is to return it.

The issue is not only with brightness, but the display color. Yellowish does not disappear by playing with the light sensor. Not does the display get more maximum brightness. You can compensate it with the Color filter in Accessibility, but you cannot make the white pure white with just adjusting the Hue. It's always blueish, greenish, reddish or yellowish.

As you get pretty close to white with adjusting hue, I would assume this is just a screen calibration issue and could be fixed with a software update. Looks like they have not calibrated the software with all oled panel manufacturers they use. It's hard to understand how something like this can happen to a company like Apple. Probably would not have been possible in Steve's time. But I would wait for the next os update before returning the phone.

Hello, I am having the same issue. I bought an iphone 12 pro max on launch day. I noticed a yellow tint and dull screen next to my XS MAX. I returned the phone and got a new one.

The new phone was absolutely fine on IOS 14.1 and as soon i updated the software to IOS 14.2 the yellow tint came back!!

Can others who are having the yellow tint on iphone 12 pro max confirm if they are running 14.2??

Could this problem be a 14.2 software related issue and maybe solved with 14.3 software??

Any thoughts/suggestions??

Thanks

I can not really figure out why the second 12 pro max I swapped was crystal clear like it is supposed to be initially when I got it - the only difference I can think is that it was on 14.1 then but as soon i updated to 14.2 it turned yellow again!!

Can someone suggest why??

I have tried to erase the phone thrice not helping now! Making me go crazy with the yellow screen. Hope 14.3 fixes the issue, otherwise will have to return the phone!!

its Not even yellowish, it’s orange. Mine is not that bad. It’s a bit warmer than my iPhone X(True tone Off) but still usable. I don’t know if I should refund it and keep my iPhone X for another year. Also this new display with True Tone on hurts my eyes.

I actually tried to erase all content and settings and set up the phone again. It feels much better and white now. Previously when I was taking a screen shot the flash was yellow, now the flash is white and all the whites feel a lot better now.

Did anyone try to erase the phone and set up again and maybe it will solve your issue also??

I’m having a same issue with pro Max

I and my husband both purchased 12 pro max.

Compared to his pro max under same settings, my screen is more green/yellow ish, especially when nightshift is on.

My serial number starts with G0ND and my partners is different.

Since it’s only happening to my device, I’m scared that this might be hardware issue.

Tried already to play with hue filters, but there is no real white! (it look likes an old cathode ray tube television)

Unfortunately, the phone updated soon to 14.2 IOS before I could move data from my Iphone 7, that's why I cannot check IOS14.1 had the same issue.

In my pictures, you can see that the Iphone 12 PRO has some strange dots, maybe it's some kind of OLED adjustment when it becomes so dark, and this is causing some issues with the display.... but anyway with the max brightness there is some yellowish color instead of pure white .

This yellow tint is making me sick!! Can not tolerate. Just waiting for 14.3. Maybe they can fix this? Or the whole batch is faulty? Apple needs to fix this!! Otherwise I will have to return my phone within the returns policy!!

Ok guys so after researching and stressing out about my yellow screen for 3 days I have finally fixed it.

Of course first of all turn True Tone off.

I also changed the hue to get rid of the yellow but thought in the back of my mind “this acceptable for a brand new phone”.

After research I’ve found out that OLEDs glue can cause this colour when they come straight from the factory.

Turn off whatever colour filter you have used. Turn auto brightness on. Turn your brightness to the max and then hold your phones display up a light bulb for 15 minutes. Wow!

Good as new :)

of course if you would prefer to return then do so but I didn’t want to wait 2 weeks

@GradyKH the OLED glue thing might be it, my 12 Pro shipped directly from the factory and it had a severe dingy yellow tint, but it has since gone away and everything is back to nice clean whites again. I couldn't figure out what happened, but that glue thing might be it?

So after you do what you recommend, you can turn true-tone back on, leave auto brightness on, no color filters, and everything still looks Wow?

If it doesn't then this did not fix anything. True-Tone and Auto Brightness worked beautifully on my X and my 11, so why not my 12pro.