OLED Display Seizure Warning

I’ve had photosensitive epilepsy since I was 15. I am now 36 and have not had a seizure in 20yrs. I currently have the iPhone 8 Plus and have had many other iPhones over the years.

3 days ago I treated myself to the iPhone 12 Pro Max which arrived yesterday. After setting it up, I realised when using it that the screen flickered and was making me feel a bit disoriented. I tried turning down the white point, dimming the screen etc but it didn’t really help, especially when using the phone in a dimly lit room.

I did some online searching and found out that loads of epilepsy suffers have had the exact same problem, but what shocked me was that this problem dated back to when the iPhone X was released a few years ago and there was talk about it in the Apple forums themselves.

So if this is the case, why does Apple not provide a warning with the phone, or better yet, a solution?

I now have a refund pending for the 12 Pro Max which is annoying. I don’t want to be stuck with an 8 Plus for the rest of my days.

Apple, you need to sort this issue. 1 in 100 people have epilepsy and 3% of them have photosensitive epilepsy.