iPhone 4S screen tint

I exchanged my two yellow iPhone 4S's a couple of weeks ago. One was from BestBuy and the other was from an AT&T store. Both replacements were new unopened iPhones, but they have the same yellow color cast as the originals. What's more depressing though is both have a dead pixel near the center portion of the screen.

BestBuy will not refund or exchange the one I got from there again, nor anything else ever again for that matter. I was told by the manager that I'm on BestBuy's customer blacklist for returning to much stuff. He even showed me a copy of all the products I've returned. All of them were iMacs, iPads, and iPhones that all had a yellow color cast and/or dead pixels. I tried to explain that to him and I even showed him my phone and compared it to the one on display. It was like talking to a wall though, so I left.

I went to the AT&T store to exchange the one I got from there again, but the salesman said that since it has a dead pixel that would be warranty issue and all Apple related warranty issues must be handled by Apple, even though I bought it from AT&T.

Well, the nearest Apple Store is over a hundred miles away, so mailing them both to Apple would really be my only option. Not wanting to play this game anymore I'm giving them as gifts today, warts and all, and keeping my iPhone 4.

Touché, Apple. Touché.

I always thought it is a good thing that the screens were getting warmer. I myself recently bought a iPhone 4S and just like you all, even my screen is yellowish than my previous iPhone 4. I remember inquiring about this issue when i switched from 3gs to 4, and trust me, i've been following iPhone since its launch, i still have a active original iPhone and the screens with each newer models are and have been getting warmer and yellowish. It would be nice if someone from Apple confirmed with everyone here that it is infact a good thing(i dont know how, just hoping).

Hope this helped.

I'm a chinese ,buy a I4S in chinese is very expensive and i am expect it,

but my I4S is also yellow! and i feel the 4S is unworthy . and then i fell so many boring

how can apple do that

d i s a p p o i n t e d !

Let's distinguish between "warmer" and "yellow". A warm screen if done properly just has a creamier looking white, but no one would instantly cringe and say "yellow" okay? There simply is no question that Apple has again a problem with production in their phones - every store with demo units has better contrast and color, and frequently the Apple employees seem to have better phones as well. One of the reasons for buying Apple products is to avoid this kind of thing - even with variation there are a lot of sickly yellow phones out there by the reports. I am on my second, and while it too has a yellow cast - it is far better than the first one I had that had yellow white, not cream or true white.

Ok i agree with you Jeff and had to let you guys know that it is a problem/defect.

I just got another iPhone 4S, and when i compared the two, the older one(in my above post) is def. a lot yellowish than the new one with is not so bluish but decently better than the one i bought a couple of days ago.

I will soon be going to the iStore here in India and asking for a replacement.

Thankyou.

Add me to the list. Got my wife a white 4S and it's a perfect white contrasty screen, got myself a black 4s and it looks like it has yellow fever. There must be some relation with the white 4S and Black 4S that is causing these yellow tint. I dont seem many complains from the white 4S camp.

Actually it has nothing to do with white or black iPhone. I got a white one and its quite yellowish, while my dad's black one is perfect. Theyre also both the same manufacture. Comparing the yellow one to a normal iPhone 4, Im fairly certain a yellowish tint produces better detail in images and videos 🙂 I was complaining at first and felt like replacing it, but my iPhone 4s is brighter and more vivid than both the iPhone 4 and a cool tint iPhone 4S 🙂 My advice is, stop comparing the settings screen but rather compare actuall stuff you do on the phone.. like a movie or something 🙂

After 3 yellow tinted factory unlocked iphone4s then i decided to buy the iphone 4 the unlocked today because i said to my self as long as i like the screen that much may be i should go with iphone4 and guess what new unlocked iphone 4 YEllOW !YELLOW! YELLOW ,did a refund immediatly , and finaly im not gonna buy any more lemons, i ll wait for the 5 .

Aly, that's exactly what I did. I compared the same images taken on my iPhone 4 on both iPhones and the colours and detail are much better on my 4S. I'm happy and have decided to keep it. I only think of my 4S screen as looking yellow when comparing it to my 4 which I discovered does not reproduce proper colours like my new 4S does. The 4 makes greens look blue. I was so used to my iPhone 4 screen that it became "normal" to me.

There is much truth in you you say here. I have a MBA which I have calibrated with my datacolor spyder3. It color corrects it from the factory cool blue screen and adds a slight yellow tint to the screen. I must say that the tint is not as pronounced as what I see in the iPhone. But it is not something that I cannot bear. I hope that datacolor comes out with a calibrator for the iPhone as what they have for the iPad.

Some news :

My friend just had for Christmas a Samsung Galaxy Note, and as soon as I seen his screen, I was like : Wooow you have a yellow screen dude ! ahah ! (he was laughting at me when i told him about my yellow tint problem).

His tablet / phone was so yellow that it was noticeable without comparing with my 4s. I compared after all, and it was not a yellowish tint like I was used to see on iphone 4s, but a really deep yellow screen. He said he did not care. In comparaison, my other friend's iphone 4 was really blue, my 4s was more like white than yellow and the Note was yellow. I'll try to post a photo if I have occasion.

So the problem is not just iPhones, but most of the new gen devices.

By the way, my first choice was a galaxy model, and i ended with an Iphone, and i dont regret it, the yellow tint is not cool, but i could have been far more disappointed.

I am happy to report that my 2nd replacement is much better! The apple store genius this time was very helpful and cheerful. He didn't give me any talks about color theory trying to explaining away the problem like the first Apple store I went. And admitted that there is a problem right away and was willing to get a couple of phones to try and the first one looks much better so I took it. The 1st store got nasty when the replacement phone didn't look right and refused to try another one, and the manager turned cold (pity on her for anyone who can turn hot and cold towards someone else like that). Happy that there are still good customer services at Apple after my recent mishaps in a couple of dealings with Apple.

The other thing I noticed, is that the phone doesn't get warm when I was charging and syncing up the OS and data. My other two 4S with yellow screens both can get pretty warm just charging the phone.

Just a little addition since everyone seems to think it is predominantly the black ones that have this issue... I just got my second White 4S (I sent back the first due to me cancelling the contract type I was on, I had to do it, to receive the same thing back again when they came back into stock... 3 weeks later).

My first 4S was brilliant white, crisp and gorgeous.

This second one is not as sharp, as has a definite yellow tint, not as strong as the pics on here.. but still hideously noticable to someone like me who does digital photography and spends his life looking at kelvin screen temperatures etc.

GAH.