iPhone 16 pro yellowish display tint

Similar situation for me, upgrading from 11 to 16 PM.

First thing I notice (dark mode) is the darkish colours had a reddish tinge to them.

I changed the screen saver to the same grey moon on my previous phone and the difference was huge.

11 had a neutral grey and the 16PM was MUCH warmer in colour. When I tilted the phone (top towards me) and looked at the moon picture it went a very cool bluish tint.

I'd read somewhere there was an apple statement on the OLEd displays saying it's an inherent property of OLED displays that they change colour with viewing angle.

So, I took it in the the apple store to compare with the display models. These did not have any issues at all!

So I sent mine back (bought online). Now I don't know what to do.

I might buy one from the store and set it up in the store, then compare with the display models, if it has an issue I'll reject it without all the faff.

Problem is they are on back order for two weeks now.

DH2016 wrote:

Same Here!!! 16 PM - hate this yellow tint. Apple, are you going to do something about it? 😞

You are NOT writing anyone at Apple by posting here. This is a user to user only forum, which Apple doesn't read for user feedback.

Use this link if you want Apple to hear you --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

My lil brother and I figured this out! My fam recently got 4 new 16 pros and we were comparing them when we realized my parent's phones had a different color display. We tried every single setting and made all 4 phones have the exact same settings and two of the phones had a more yellow ish weird color. The phones looked a little more grainy and the blue appeared a lighter color. We found that the two phones that have that horrible display color were made in August compared to the other two phones which were made in September! (The September ones look perfect) So it seems Apple must have updated the screens between August and September!

It's not uncommon for new iPhones out of the box to have a slight yellowish tint at first. My 16 Pro Max did. I've now had it a full week and whites are very white. So give it some time and chances are your phone will too.

If the yellow tint issue came out of the box and isn’t fixed by future software updates, you could always take it to an Apple Store for further diagnosis or a potential fix, especially since it's still covered under parts and labour even if you don't have apple care.

Use this link to report issues with a stable iOS release, Feedback - iPhone - Apple

I have the same issue and intrestingly i took it to the apple store and they said that's how apple display looks like.. soo folks, the conclusion is , apple cant reproduce true whites in their 1000$+ phones, they just say it thats apple way...

PS - i sold my device, as a designer i need true colors especially when i spend this much of crazy amount

Same here- 16PM was delivered Wednesday, after few hours I have noticed different color temperature from different viewing angles- it’s “yellow” warm white at direct angle and when tilting in any direction it becomes normal cool “bluish” white as it should be throughout the whole screen when all color filter settings are off and True Tone off as well of course. Guess what Genius Apple Store employees said? They didn’t see it. At all. Well with bright environment conditions it’s difficult to see but still possible- and it’s very visible in dark environment. Had to return it on the spot- never returned an iPhone before. Thinking about keeping my 14PM for another year for this reason unless Apple can fix it with software update or that was really screen problem, no idea.

Okay, so i found out that this is a software issue, cause when i turned on the True Tone somewhere around 30 minutes till sunset, the screen got really white, like i want it to be.

So i really hope that they will fix it at least once😅

Hi, I just applied colour filter and it is much better. You should try. But the question is, after spending lots of money what we got.

80% of iphones have the display yellow tint issues

and issue im facing from iphone 8 plus,12 pro max,15 pro max and now 16 pro max…

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I just bought an IPhone 16 Pro on 10/06/24 and my screen tint is yellow. Even the Apple rep said my screen looked greenish yellow. I tried fixing with every adjustment and no luck. To be honest my IPhone XS and IPad Pro has a much better color tint with a truer white. I am so upset. Apple must have a different screen supplier? How could they even approve of such a horrible screen.

Same here bought iPhone 16 pro max and I even exchanged it only to get the same thing again. Planning to exchange it one more time and hoping I get a white screen. Even the Apple Store employee couldn’t deny it. Maybe every screen is like this or do some actually have proper screens?

I have tried every possible way to change my phone. They have color balance bars in their software and that did not work. The opposite of yellow is blue, cyan is red, Magenta is green. The yellow blue controls did not work. My 27 inch NEC Photoshop monitor screen is used with my MAC Studio and it is color balanced with the NEC software and a balance puck looks perfect and I compared it to the Iphone 16 Pro and the Iphone screen is yellow. My iPad Pro screen looks great and the Iphone screen looks yellow to that screen. How hard is it for Apple to offer screen profiles. I spent $1700 on my phone with the Apple Care and my old Iphone XS screen looked better than my new phone. Does Apple even read these consumer issues?

I don’t think they do. I’m getting these issues often with iPhones and never got any reply from Apple.

They know about this problem every year and do exactly nothing to fix that while manufacturing/calibrating displays on iPhone.