Ipad Air yellow screen tint on left hand side?

That's great 🙂

Personally I've tried a couple of times the reset and this never fixed the issues I had on all iPad Air I got.

Got a new one for the nth time this Friday (Space gray this time, Serial DMQLQ... - Production week 47) and left side is slightly yellowish and book spine is quite visible...

You guys should seriously try Target, thats where i got mine and it seems evenly lit. Mine was a 32 gb so I dont know if they try harder to make it right with the higher memory. But now I just get even and mine is jailbroken. Another thing you guys should know is that mine is consistent white across when looking at it parallel to my face, if I change the angle of the unit the whites get a little yellower and its still consistent, I think the nature of how these screens are made has something to do with the yellowing also

Mi Airs have been from Target, first one yellow ting and two bands running horizontally across the screen, replacements yellow tints and book spine. The one I'm using right now, has bad light bleed. I got a Samsung Note, it has some yellow tint on it, some light bleeding and a book spine. I didn't think it was going to bother me much as they are not as bad as the Air, but the book spine seems to have gotten darker, so it gets distracting when reading ebooks.

Here is a link for a discussion over on XDS on the Note Series Screen Tint issues:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427831

Today i went to the apple store to return my defect iPad and the employee told me I'm only the third customer since the air came out that request an exchange and that I must have been unlucky. I told him about this forum and he acknowledge that it was a know issue to Apple. Anyway this time I got a DMRLT prod week 49 and I don't see any yellowish part on the screen but a little book spine effect... So it better and there's hope but I'll wait a few days to see if I get use to it cuz my girlfriend says I'm too picky about it.... I have till the 12th to think about it. Here's an interesting article found in the interwebs :

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/213750/seeing-yellow-the-return-of -the-ipad-screen-obses.html

Good article. It was dated 11-19-13. Not much has changed since then. The problem still exists with their factories in China cranking out the same flawed screens on each iPad Air. I wish Apple would respond.

I assume the solution to the Air's screen flaw mentioned in the article suggests that the defect is related to the glue under the glass (hence advising letting the iPad on screen hours by hours to let the glue "dry") ? I think it's not the cause for the tint issue being discussed. Give it a try if you'd like to, however doesn't seem possible 😁

dochris, you have a valid point. I really do not know the real answer. All I know is that I'm extremely disappointed in the iPad Air. Aside from the discoloration of the screen, my biggest problem is the "book spine" shadow and back light bleed on every single one of them.

The guy at the store who agreed with me says they suspect it might be related to the light diffusion technology that is used with the air and not the glue. In fact there's a lot of glue used in the fabrication process but it's not suppose to affect the screen. On the other hand, in order to make the air so thin they had to reinvented the light diffusion technology. By the way all the demos at the store had the book spine issue more or less and if compare to those, mine seem not bad even if it bothers me so the best one you can have will have a little bit of the book spine effect but not the yellow tint. So I guess it's get use to it or return and wait.....

Thanks, MShagwell for the info.

On one exchanged unit, I got a pretty evenly lit, non-yellow screen with very little book spine shadow. When the screen went black to watch a movie, it had very noticeable back light bleed. I returned it for a full refund. I guess I'll have to wait.

I somehow quite believe that letting the iPad get hot/warm over a certain time period may somewhat reduce the yellowish hue (not the diffusion problem). I believe that since the display iPads in the store I've visited (on-screen all the time - quite hot) have got generally 'whiter' hue screen than my new iPad Air (I avoid my Air not to get hot to prevent battery-life reduction). Or maybe they were just lucky to get iPads with almost perfect screen for display, which is a shame 😀

I'm on my 4th iPad Air. All of them have had nausea-inducing yellow screens.

1st iPad Air: left side of screen is yellow.

2nd iPad Air: left side of screen is yellow. terrible backlight bleeding.

3rd iPad Air: left side of screen is yellow. screen interlacing from iPhone 5S's visible (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1641450). terrible backlight bleeding.

4th iPad Air: entire screen is yellow. worst backlight bleeding I've ever seen.

I'm at the point where I don't know if I should exchange it and play iPad Roulette again for the 5th time, or if I should just give up and return it for good. I told myself no more Apple products after the screen interlacing issue on the 5S. Then again, I told myself that after scuffgate with the 5. Waited in line 12 hours for that one only to open a scratched/scuffed/dinged device....4 times in a row.

I don't know how much money Tim Cook thinks they're saving by cutting quality control, but they certainly aren't saving money on me. I'll return a hundred devices if I have to. Point being, they're losing money on me, and they deserve it.

After having picked up last week a Space Gray (Serial DMQLQ... - Production week 47) with (again) the left side slightly yellowish and visible book spine I've swapped yesterday again at the closest Apple Store.

- The 1st proposed iPad air - again a DMQL - was with similar defects: visibile book spine and yellow tint on the left. So I've refused it. The sales people was unable to see the defects.

- The 2nd proposed iPad air (DMPL, production week 51) had no book spine and it was one of the most even screen I saw so far also the screen was really bright and the white was looking very "white"... So I'll keep it and I'm happy with it sin then.

Now and based on my current good impression I've decided to not do anymore testing on my new iPad Air screen. Since November I've got so many units with defects and I was able to see quite immediately the issues which is not the case with that one. Now I really want to use my iPad as I did with the previous generations I got before.

My last iPad Air was a DMPL week 49. It had a fairly good white screen with almost no book spine shadow. It had a small chip in the glass, some glue residue and very noticable back light bleed when the screen went black to watch a movie. I returned it for a full refund.

^^ That isn't the issue. The issue is Apple's current state in "quality" control.

The iPhone 5S also suffers yellow screens and vertical scan lines. I've seen people I know get them for Christmas this year and the issue is STILL present in them.

I guarantee you could buy an iPad Air in March and you're still going to get a yellow screen. Or backlight bleeding. Or random LCD shadowing on the left side.

This isn't something that Apple is fixing. Quite the opposite actually. This is probably saving them MASSIVE $$$$$$ by putting out low-grade displays they would have NEVER shipped 3 years ago. They're probably wondering why they didn't think of this years ago. Then again, look who was in charge back then..

Just an update. I returned my 4th iPad Air and I'm not even going to try to get another one. The chances of finding one with a screen as advertised seem to be as bad as winning the lottery.

I hope you're happy, Apple. I hope the money you're saving with low grade outsourced parts are worth it. You just lost a massive brand loyalist (fanboy, if you will). Unless things change (yeah right), I'm not buying another Apple product ever again.