My iPhone 4S has a yellow screen.

I'm having the exact same issue. Not sure what to do about it.

Yes. Compared with my old iPhone 4, the 4S screen is washed out with a yellow tint. I'm not happy 😟

My 4s when record a video the play back is just a hissing sound :S any 1 else this problem ?

Me three...going to the Apple Store tommorow to see if the demo models are all slightly Warner (yellower) it may be because they are new and will cool over time....I also may be completely wrong lol

Just another "yup, got that problem" chiming in. I have a white model; i've always had the black before. at first I thought it was just apparent contrast. but nope. definately a bleached feel to it. Contrast is set too high, relateive to two iPHone 4 models kicking around the house (my old and wife's). Hope it just needs to, umm, break in. Haven't had this issue before in numberous phones in the family.

Hey

There are two options

1. Is that it is the adhesive used to secure the glass and will dry over time.

2. There is light leakage/bleeding from the backlight which can also cause a yellow looking discolouration and this is a permanent issue. I had the same problem on my iPad 2 having waited since midnight the night before!!n But apple will swap it out straight away if it is light bleeding.

Hope this helps.

Yes. Mine iphone 4s screen has the awful yellow tint and looks washed out. Its even more obvious comparing it side by side to my old iphone 4. 😟

I'm taking it back if it doesn't get any better in 2 weeks.

Just a post to add a me too to the discussion

My iPhone 4 has a lovely clean, cool and blue white to it...the iPhone 4S looks slightly sepia'd and not quite so bright.

I recall this happening back in the iPhone 3G/S days...weren't there two different screen manufacturers and it was luck of the draw which one you got?

I also recall it changing with an iOS update.....since the firmware has a colour calibration profile for the screen.

...my first instinct is "oh no, not this carp again Apple!!!" :-(

I've got 2 white 64's here. 1 is fine the other is a ***** yellow. it's going back tomorrow!!

I have the same problem. I went to the Apple store to see if this was normal. All the 4S display phones had a nice crisp bluish cooler tint compared to mine with a dull yellow warmer tint. I showed the Genius the comparisons. They were reluctant to swap it saying that all the 4S's in the back had that same yellow tint. After insisting that they swap it, they did, and the frickin' new one had the same yellow tint. Does anybody know if apple is using 2 different LCD makers to make the 4S? Perhaps this is the reason some are yellow and some are blue...

Perhaps you all wanna join the rest of the people here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1251205

Perhaps this is related: Apple has changed the polarization of the glass on the front of the iPhones. I just discovered this (for myself anyhow; undoubtedly bloggers figured it out long ago). On my 3GS and 4, if wearing polarized glass-lensed Raybans or such sunglasses, you would see a mildly darkened screen when the phone was in the veritcal orientation, but a very darkened (unusably so) screen in the horizonal orientation. (Interestly, the iPads, both 1 and 2, are polarized in the opposite dirction, wokring w/ sunglasses in the horizontal mode.)

But w/ the iPhone 4S, I note something other than basic polarization at 90 degree increments. It seems to align (thus darken a bit, but actually more of a color distortion that mutes all contrasts?) in a diagonal aspect. Both horizontal and vertical are quite visiable at 90 degrees with sunglasses on (and without).

No, I'm not whining about seeing these in the sun. There are separate threads for that.

Anyhow, perhaps that polarization is what some of us are noting. Yes, I realize it isn't the case we are all complaining about the different shades of whites and contrasts when wearing sunglasses, but perhaps the new polarization (or polarization replacement) is the source of at least a subset of these effects that some of us are sesing? Just a thought.

My 4S looks a lot more like your 4. New to the phone, but it looks quite cool white with no yellowish cast.

Returned my to the apple store. They agreed and apple care are sending a replacement tomorrow.

My new 4S doesn't look anything like yellowish. It is slightly lighter than my 4, but it doesn't seem to be a disadvantage or problem.