Severe Eye Strain due to OLED PWM Dimming

I've put up the feedback as well. Let's hope Apple hears us.

great.. hopefully apple will listen with enough people complaining about this. Thank you!

Unhelpful Every new phone has these PWM screens..

Thanks, yes it’s odd. Hopefully Apple will address the issue so we can all enjoy new iPhones again.

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Hi there

can you update, did you find a solution with your problem. im having the same one and im not sure if i should sell my new iphone or not? please help

Dear Apple, please release another LCD iphone!

This!!! Exactly! I have vestibular migraines and these new screens are trash for me! There is no resolution.. ig I will getting a flip phone and be a non internet user 😡

Not so sure Samsung is much better.. I’ve bought a Motorola RAzR flip ultra and have no issues as have set refresh rate to 120.. also the Chinese phones by default are eye safe - Honor and Huawei for example.

Also I noticed if you use another phone camera and hold it to an OLED screen phone with a white screen you can see the lines scrolling down on OLED phone! I noticed the lines kinda disappear when brightness is lowered to about 50%. But everyone else says keep brightness at 100% the use white point. Really didn’t do much for me. I’m willing to try and buy another 15 and try something else if anyone has any ideas, even though if it doesn’t work I have to pay a $50 restocking fee!

any suggestions?!?!

I am switching from an OLED phone to an LCD phone. The iPhone SE 3rd Generation released in 2022 has an LCD screen. This iPhone SE 3 phone is in the same group display at the Apple Store with the iPhone 15’s and iPhone 14’s.

I converted the data yesterday, I am pleased with the picture quality. The phone is small but has good clarity. It has rounded edges which remind me of the Galaxy phone I liked that I was converting from back to an iPhone.

Note worthy, I saw several posts where people said they were going back to their iPhone 11 because of getting headaches/migraines with the iPhone 14. Turns out the iPhone 11 is also an LCD phone.

Apple and Verizon have been very helpful while I was sorting this out.

Apple dont want to admit their iphones (because they use 60mhz cheaper screens) be huge claims against them. I tried the origonal iphone 3 and SE and felt ill. Samsung S6, S20, Fold 4 so much better and set them at 120mhz.

For me the 15 PM has been the most tolerable of the OLED displays. Unfortunately it is not perfect. There are times where I feel discomfort in the back of my neck at the base of the head, eyes get slightly strained with prolonged use, a little eye fatigue. But it isn't like other OLED displays where it was pure suffering. I have several more days before my return window is up and I don't know what I will do. This is the first time that I feel the age of my 11. I love the cameras, speakers, brightness, battery, and higher storage capacity. Decisions.

I have left feedback so many times I lost count. I've been active in a long-going thread about this issue in MacRumors. That single thread is 404 pages, has 10k+ replies, and over 1 million views should you ever care to check it out. I've been using the 15 PM since Dec 7th and I can say the symptoms haven't become any worse. Intermittent is how I would describe it.

No me neither, I certainly was not ranting. Clearly the other user feels I was. And I can only apologise to him, if he feels that way. I don’t want to divert from the topic.

I need to be careful now as I’ve had a ban warning so won’t be replying again. I’m just gutted I had to return my lovely new handset. Also pretty worried I may never be able to own a new iphone ( 1st world problems )..

I’m gonna probably try the 15 standard edition. Hopefully I’ll be ok on that one.

cheers

TranceVoyager wrote:

No me neither, I certainly was not ranting. Clearly the other user feels I was. And I can only apologise to him, if he feels that way. I don’t want to divert from the topic.

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