iPhone 12 Pro Max screen has yellow tint

I notice that if you turn off auto-brightness, the yellow tint disappears, and becomes much more brighter. I turned it back on and TT cause it was so bright and white that it was burning my eyes

All they care is that they got the money. That's why it's important to return the phone, maybe then they'll accept customers don't want to pay for sub-par devices, nor should they!

Go to Settings > Display & Brightness > turn off "True Tone". You're welcome : )

No seems to be reporting back with a happy solution. ? — on my new 12 Pro Max: The white balance on the screen is off - yellowish to start and bluish if True Tone is turned on. Also, the sharpness is poor compared to my XR. — for some phones to have it and others not it is a hardware issue not a software issue.

Confirm the problem on our iPhone Pro Max received today, going to Accessibility Color filter solve the problem then you can manage to get true white and not yellow white. The intensity is also lower than my iPhone X...

Have you read through the forum? It’s hardware, no fix. Everyone is getting Fd on this one, Apple has yet to announce anything so I don’t expect they will. This looks like a “major” issue that would require multiple devices to come in for repair & their stock holders would not find this appealing for an Apple first. That’s what happens when you cheap out doing the pandemic and rush ****.

I have spoken to Apple tonight. They have checked their technical resources and tell me they are aware of the issue and are working on it. They say they are expecting to fix with a software update in the future but the fix was not in the 14.3 update.

Just got my iPhone 12 Pro Max, space gray. Pretty awesome phone but very warm with true tone on. With it off, it's cooler but unfortunately has more green which is even uglier to me. Phone shipped with 14.2.1 which it's still on because I read 14.3 does nothing.

I'm intrigued that someone mentioned looking at the glass with the screen off and you'll notice the reflection from overhead lights being more yellow. Sure enough I got all my iDevices out and compared using a flashlight. All looked mostly the same except the 12 PM, which definitely appeared more yellow.

The iPhone 12's use a new type of glass, which could explain why we see this issue on 12's with OLED, but not earlier OLED models. It's not a display/screen issue, but a glass issue? Seems plausible to me.

I never said they got it wrong or right. I said I personally like the warmer screen. That's my preference. Nothing will help you here on this user to user only forum, right or wrong. If you're unhappy with the phone and you are within the return window, return it.

I’ve just read almost all these posts.

The general consensus is that most have an issue with deeper more intense yellowing of the display when TrueTone is switched on. When I use my iPhone in a dark room with TrueTone it’s very yellow the display, it gives the appearance of Night Shift being switched on. The work around for using color filter and setting the hue and intensity to the below seems to clear it up and tone down TrueTone yellowing. So if I want less yellow intensity using TrueTone at night I have to enable color filter. The issue of concern for me currently on my 2 day old iPhone Pro Max is a slight pink reddish tint towards the lower part of the display. I’m sure it’s within tolerance levels though.

And Apple don’t care.

what I would say is that of the five I’ve had, only two were really yellow with True Tone off.

the one I’m left with is ok with True Tone off. Disgusting with it on.

so I would say get a replacement. Unless you find having to keep True Tone off unacceptable; then return it and keep your 10. Wait for iPhone 13. Can’t be as unlucky as iPhone 12.

I sold my 10. So I can’t compare or go back.

What anyone who is not happy with the tone of the screen on their new phone should do, is provide feedback through this link which is the only sure way to ensure Apple hears from people --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

I'm not sure if at this point, I want to try again. I've already paid the phone in full once, then got refunded, then paid again in full...I don't want to jeopardize my credit for a faulty iPhone.

I literally was told today by an Apple Exec this yellow tint is a feature, followed by the suggestion to use the color palette option.

I told him this is unacceptable for those of us who especially got this phone for the camera, if we mess with the color palette, the photo color will be off on other devices. No response since...

My screen isn't too yellow on this second device BUT when I look at black and white photos, they have a yellow tint. So if I edit those photos to look more "normal," they will have a blue tint on everyone else's device who sees the photos, because Apple can't get the tint correct on the original device?? It's just wrong.

Same here unfortunately. I received my 12 Pro Max recently in 2nd half of March 2021 and noticed the whites didn’t have that ‘true’ clean, dead-neutral white, which would otherwise help compliment all other colours as well.

Turning off True Tone doesn’t resolve the issue and with True Tone on, it’s oppressively overly warm making True Tone seem like a complete gimmick.

Experimenting with Colour filters deep within the Assistance Settings does not help in the slightest. The closest you might get is to have the tone level all the way to the minimum and try to slide the colour hue to what you may perceive as being close. However you lose some brightness output and you just can’t get it quite right with either a hint of red, orange, green or some other unwanted tint. Apple would have done better to have had separate colour sliders altogether along with a digital vibrancy and brightness boost if the final tweak was at the cost of losing some brightness and colour vibrancy (let’s face it you need all the brightness you can get in bright environments and sunny days).

But we shouldn’t have to resort to colour tweaking and attempted calibrating. This should have all been done at manufacture stage.

My old iPhone XS gives the most amazing dead neutral white that’s so neutral, it makes all other colours appear more balanced, more noticeable and pop. This is in stark comparison to the subtle urine-tinted whites of my new 12 Pro Max display.

Its really difficult to stomach on a 1,400 price tag of a phone.

Have you guys tried going to settings, then Display & Brightness and turn off True Tone? On mine it showed as a yellow tint until I turned this off and now my phone looks fine. Hope this helps