Severe Eye Strain due to OLED PWM Dimming

iPhone has not corrected this problem yet. Please Post a request here Feedback - iPhone - Apple

lets rally together.

Please post a request to apple to correct the problem. Feedback - iPhone - Apple

thx

After using our iPhone 6 for almost 8 years, we have bought the iPhone 13 mini one for me, and one for my wife last month. Now both we have serious eye problems just after looking to the screen for minutes. Tapping up the brightness to maximum which helps for higher pwm is not useful and feasible indoors.

We have bought the mini, just because it was similar size to 6, but we wouldn’t buy them if we were aware of that screen discomfort. Now i see iPhone se2 with same a15 chipset would be a better option with us.

In addition to that, we have been using our iPads for years without any eye discomfort like the iPhone 6’s, so there is obviously a problem with these oled displays.

Sidlawman wrote:

I had the iPhone 8 then went to the 12, lasted a few weeks and got rid of it due to the unbearable headaches, then went to the 11, all good. Went to the 15, (great phone) lasted a few weeks then the severe headaches and eye pain came back, it’s really bad, now back on the 11. If all that’s required is a dimming feature that Samsung has why wouldn’t Apple? Really shocking, when the 11 stops being supported and it’s not fixed it’ll have to be Samsung, assuming they have really dealt with the issue.

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Note that they will not reply.

So don't use them.

Yes. Everyone. The best chance to create change is to bring action. Start putting in the request and who knows? If enough people do it, maybe Apple will hear us and make the change. 🙏🏽

Same here. Please include an iPhone with Liquid Retina LCD display ASAP. I am also stuck with SE for long and can't enjoy the 13 or 14 generations. This issue led me to use my MacBook Pro 2017 as desktop for a while but I am grateful that Apple released the air version with M2 ship and LCD screen...

Anyone who google the web for PWM, flicker, sensitivity, OLED will find out that there's large number of people now having similar issues with several brands' OLED. Hopefully, Apple listens to its brand lovers and provides iPhone with large Liquid Retina display soon.

Same here. I really do not understand why Apple stoped the version with lcd screen on the 11 without solving this problem for some very important clients. It is a health issue. Their phones are literally making some of their clients sick.

i bought an 14 pro max iphone last week , it's my first experience with OLED screens , the next days i started having a terrible headache all the day without any reason , after 3 days i started researching for the relation between iphone usage and headache , so i found that the PWM technology used in Oled screens gives headache for PWM sensitive people so i was oblige to sell my new iPhone because there is no option in settings that allow to turn off the flickering , so I hope that Appel take this minority of PWM sensitive people in consideration , and put some options in settings to turn off the flickering in the new iphones because it's impossible for us to use these products even for one day .

why is apple not adding dc dimming. Several Chinese manufactures have already rolled it out a couple of years ago and it is just software update. I’m still on the iPhone 11 and in another year will have to go to an android if it doesn’t get fixed. PLEASE. How can we get apple to listen to us?

I had to return my brand new iPhone 15 PRO Max for this exact same reason.

I am back on my dying iPhone 11. No way I'm using SE. Imagine a world without face ID? What?

Anyway I can't believe I am unable to look any OLED Phone.

I tired reducing white levels, adjusting brightness, switching to 60hz, turning off motion or whatever the setting is?? Nothing helped. The phone sadly had to go straight back.

I've posted a few replies on these topics about this.

Apple has subsequently deleted them, I'm not sure why?

Apologies if I’ve come across as ranting to you. That was not my intention.

I visited to post replies about having to return my lovely new iPhone because sadly I could not look at the screen.

Why? In the hope that if people see they may also post just like other people have here.

With the idea being to raise awareness of issues some users are facing when using OLED PWM handsets.

I just wanted to help raise awareness, particularly with Apple. Because I can’t imagine not being able to ever buy an iPhone again, which it seems is now the case..

Hopefully Apple can address this issue.

Thanks

I bought the 15pro and really liked it. Then I started getting constant headaches when in the past I had never gotten headaches. Once my research linked the likely cause to OLED PWM I quickly returned my 15 pro and got the SE (3rd generation). My previous iPhone was the 11 and had LCD. I didn't have headache side-effects on the LCD screen.

Fairly disappointed because I liked the 15 pro and the SE is basic. Apparently Samsung has the same PWM issues. I'm going to research if Google phones have OLEM PWM and if they are free of that function, then I'm going to return my SE in time to get a Google phone.

nidhinb92 wrote:

Dear Apple, please release another LCD iphone!

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple