iOS 16 Screen Flickering

I have tried very hard to reproduce it on an iPhone 14 Pro, following the description in the original post in this thread, and I am unable to. I’ve tried lots of light and dark screen settings, and lots of brightness settings, and I don’t see in on any screens.

dxtmanish wrote:

Hey @sumukh256, I can safely downgrade my iPhone 13 to iOS 15.7, right?

ill use a mac for the process! Haven’t done this before ever

You can for as long as 15.7 is signed, but you will lose all data on your phone and you will have to either restore a backup made before you updated or manually reinstall all your apps. You will not be able to restore a backup made with iOS 16.

yeah, its plenty safe, itunes/finder wont let you restore using the wrong/unsigned file and I unplugged my phone in the middle of the restoration process by mistake and it still did it fine so you cant do much wrong and nothing to worry about

as I mentioned before, the issue doesn't seem to exist on proMotion displays, try it on a normal 13 or a 13 mini and lower and you'll see a subtle flicker whenever you interact with the display on lower brightness on 40%< brightness on gray backgrounds.

If there is a problem that happens on iOS 16.0.x and gets resolved on downgrading to 15.7 (troubleshooting as possible by the end user), it definitely warrants a fix from Apple, there are no two ways about this!!

I already mentioned in one of my previous posts that I have submitted the bug report to apple. Forums by design are meant to be used by the public (end users) to figure out how widespread an issue is, and at some level the companies too use this information.

Nope. Apple replaced my screen, then asked me to factory reset the phone and then replaced the rear system which is everything except the screen lol. Issue went away only because the new rear system was loaded with 15.4, I updated to 16.0.1 and back the issue came 🙃

i updated to iOS 16.0.3, it did not fix the issue but somehow it is much less noticeable now. i have to really focus on my keyboard while type to see the flickering.

hopefully iOS 16.1 or the next major release will fix this issue.

There is screen flickering on iPhone 13 mostly viable on grey shades when brightness is less than half but if we notice not deploy screen is flickering on white and other clours also but it is little hard to see

i have the same issue, it is driving me crazy. and it keeps increasing. i was trying to convince local authorised support and friends to see it but all called me crazy untill finally a friend noticed it on his iPhone 13 as well.

for those who want to see it clearly , lower your brightness to around 40% and open clock app. try to set an alarm and you can see the screen flicker as you scroll through the timer.

Apple must fix this ASAP. it

MatteBlackOnly wrote:

I updated my iPhone 12 mini to iOS 16.1 recently and I still have this problem. When brightness is set below ~40% black parts of screen turns grey when anything is moving on the screen. It is annoying while watching YouTube.

To be more precisely: the screen changes hue when the brightness slider is lower than about 45 percent. in the place of 45% you can see a sudden change in the colors of the screen. And under this level, screen flickering on black parts of display is happening.

If the screen changes hue and you don’t like this feature go to Settings/Display & Brightness and turn off True-Tone.

No! It’s not addicted to TrueTone. Like I showed in the screenshots: When I slide brightness bar under this level, screen changes color a little. It’s like jump of hue. Under this level screen is changing colors on black parts when something is moving on screen. It is visible for example around the notch, in settings app when page is scrolled up to the top. When I Turn off TrueTone it doesn’t do anything. Problem still exists.

I’m using a iPhone 12 Pro with iOS 15.6.1 and have the same issue.

For me it’s most notable in the message app where there is dark background. Circumstances: dark room, dark mode, brightness @ 25%. True Tone or Night Shift don’t make a difference.

It seems to be reproducible by scrolling in the messages. If you collapse the keyboard (no cursor blinking) and scroll: while moving the background gets a little brighter, after stopping it goes completely dark again.

It seems like the OLEDs get turned on slightly. I guess it’s to prevent some kind of ghosting, where pixel don’t turn on quickly enough so scrolling through completely black segments can look weird and slushy. So they just turn on the pixels if they expect movement (eg while scrolling).

but the weird flickering (eg while the cursor is blinking or whatever the reason might be) is very annoying.

there has to be a way to fix this :/

On a gray background it’s very noticeable even just scrolling. Any type of interaction with the screen will make it flicker.

5 pages is SMALL. There are hundreds of millions of iPhones. This thread represents a couple of dozen iPhones. This is an example of large (853 pages).