iPhone 12 OLED Screen Issue

I couldn't agree more. The only thing I worry is that the next iPhone will have fingerprint reader in the screen which is a huge factor for my decision. I have been using the SE now with a battery case and love the fingerprint scanner for things like apple pay. I am also still torn between the Mini and Pro Max. I have enough credit in my apple account to get a 512gb Pro Max but If I spend the money on that now and then something new comes along, I will feel better holding onto the SE and waiting another 7/8 months for the 12s/13 to drop. I'm terribly indecisive as you can tell!

Mine’s getting worse day by day. I can’t tolerate having it anymore. Apple is just there sitting quietly and keep on ignoring us.

I don’t want to wait for that software update because I’m sure this is a manufacturing defect. This wont be fixed by a single software update as users having this issues differ from each other. Others have severe and different locations disgusting green glow on their screens.

Why did a phone like this passed through their quality control? I did not spent much money just only to have a phone behaving like this! How frustrating.

I activated my phone on December 9, 2020. It’s been over a month now and It seems getting worse as it is becoming more and more visible and noticeable whenever I’m using it in dark mode at night. This is very disturbing. I can’t get off my eyes of it. I didn’t expect that my device would be having such issues.

It's not complicated I posted plenty of pictures of my iPhone 12 before I returned it showing there is a very strong green tint at all brightness levels making the rest of the colors look incorrect. It's like having nightmode enabled all the time, which gives a very strong yellow tint, also making all the colors look wrong! At least with night mode and truetone you can disable simple enough but not green tint since most likely hardware issue due to poor QA or maybe relaxed QA standards due to pandemic! Might be a fix for that as there was for the iPhone 11 depending on how widespread issue is and how many returns or complaints Apple gets would be my guess.

@s0nix13 can you please show us how is the green tint/glow issue of your phone looks like?

and others who have similar issues reading this post, can you please also post a pic of the green tint/glow issue of your phones?

for us to compare them all

i hope somebody will post theirs because i just recently posted mine before this comment, and i wanted to see yours too 😔

Given these displays are calibrated warm to begin with they should start using the True Tone feature to turn the display cooler under bright and cold ambient lighting instead of the usual like they used to do with lcd screens.

I tried speaking to Apple Support couple of days ago. Their representative had given me following response on raised blacks/glowing issue problem. It's obviously copy-pasted, but sure seems like an acknowledgement. The answer doesn't indicate if the issue is software or hardware related though. (pardon for any grammar mistakes, I'm not a native speaker).

Yeah, that what’s Apple must do. But seems not to.

They Replace units having such issues.

Not by forcing us to wait for the software update they’ve been saying. Our devices having that green glow issue must be replaced as soon as possible as we don’t want to waste our time using phones with problems.

I can't agree with you. Just installed iOS 14.4 and I still have green tint, raised blacks and green flickering in movies / videos.

(But it seems to be slightly better. So maybe (if you have an better display than mine in hardware, you are a lucky user that have no more problems).

Here you can see it:

Thanks ! Useful tips but unfortunately partly addressing the issue. On the full black screen the green glow no more appears but when swiping up to unlock ; it reappears as a pixelated green glow. Moreover, when on low res videos it does continue.

Does anyone knows if Apple is already allowing Authorized Service Providers to service iPhone 12 devices having this green tint/glow issue? Does anyone here tried to have their phone serviced and replaced successfully at Service Providers? Note: I am asking about Service Providers only as we don’t have Apple Store in our area.

I have read reports back in November 2020 that Apple told its AASPs to avoid servicing iPhone 12 devices having green tint issues, but until now, there’s no still solution to it.

This green glow issue on my iPhone 12 was present since it’s out of the box, iOS 14.1 and last week of October 2020 as production week. There’s this iOS 14.4 came, but it didn’t solve the issue. And there’s this iOS 14.5 beta already and it seems to be that the supposedly “software fix” that’s Apple Advisors told me is not in that iOS 14.5 yet.

So, what now? I’m losing hope and getting frustrated already. Why do they have to avoid servicing these iPhone 12 devices having that green tint/glow issue for a long time. Why do we have to wait, for how many months? Unlike in iPhone 11 devices last year, I think green tint issues occured on iOS 13.5 and immediately fixed on iOS 13.6.

In that case they should at least repair devices that have uneven tint so that they have even green tint right? My screen has a green tint at the top and red tint(or lack of green tint) at the bottom. They say it is part of the green glow problem (I agree) and will be fixed soon via an update and reject to repair / replace my phone. I don’t think they would acknowledge that it’s a problem and avoid fixing it forever at the same time. That would be illegal/fraud.

The thing is, how much are we sure that by replacing the device we get a new one with no issue?

That said, if it doesn’t get fixed with updates, then i’m also going to ask for a replace sooner or later, at least i will have a new device

The latest batch seems to be fine. No raised blacks in videos, no flickering in videos. Displays true blacks at all brightness levels.

There seems to be only one issue with the YouTube App and the volume icons . If you a play a video with a black /dark background, and try to adjust the volume, you get a kind of glow only on the side of the volume icon.

If you switch the orientation, the glow also switches to where the volume icon is displayed. Again only on YouTube and in landscape orientation. I checked with iPhone SE, it also has the same issue. Don't have another oled phone to check the behaviour.

The photo will brighten the glow, but will give you an idea about what I am referring to.