Ipad Air yellow screen tint on left hand side?

I think that with usage the yellow tint problem will go away, but not the darker (and lower constrast) "book spine" problem. It's not that bad, but I notice it when I'm not looking for it... I'll be using the iPad, go into "reader" mode on Safari, and bam, it jumps out at me.

Big thanks to Glenn, that was very insightful!

Since I have the "book spine" problem I'll be cashing mine back within the 14 days then. Instead I'll trade my older iPad model for a discount elsewhere and buy an iPad Air when this mess hopefully gets fixed. Such a shame, it's almost perfect!

I went to the Apple store in town today to check out the iPad Airs. I noticed the yellowing issue on the left side of the screen on about 70% of the in-store units. You can check it easily in the notepad app. A similar issue kept me from buying a high definition tablet from a major bookstore chain last year. Are there two different screen suppliers for Apple? Hopefully, those who are saying its the glue curing and will go away with time are right. LCDs tints are sensitive to stress. If the glue relaxes over time, the tint could well change.

I just received my new iPad and what I've noticed -- when comparing my old iPad 3 to my new iPad Air -- that the color is "off" with the iPad Air. Whites on the iPad 3 are bright white...almost a bluish white, cool in tone. With my new iPad the whites are off white, more dirty white, more warm in tone. Though I love everything else with this new iPad, the color tones issue is a huge disappointment. No matter how I adjust the brightness level, it doesn't change the dirty look of anything on my screen that's white.

Looks identical to mine. Apple have agreed to replace it. As soon as I described the issue they said it was a fault (I even mentioned that it was slight - Mum can't even see what I'm talking about and suggested that apple should sell the returned ones to over 40s!). I bought mine online so I dealt with the online store over the phone and they were excellent.

My IPAD AIR doesn't seem to have the yellow tint issue. But there two yellowish stripes from the left to the right side (8cm between these stripes). Although they are only noticable on a white screen, it's also pretty annoying. Do you think it's a glue-related problem which will solve itself over the next couple of days? Last year I bought an Ipad Mini at the release day without any problems at all...

There is no glue between the glass and the screen just double sided tape underneath the bezels (see ifixit's tear down - the whole "glue curing" thing has only been relevant for the last few iPhone models where the glass is glued to the LCD display). If it was glue then the demo units in the apple store would have most likely cured by now as they would have been on almost constantly since release day last Friday.

Same problem here. Having a yellowish tint on the left side of the screen while in portrait mode. Bought mine directly from a reseller in Germany. Seems to be that nearly every device is affected by this issue at the moment, more or less. It doesn't bother me that much, but compared to my iPad 4 it is significant visible.

Im having the same issues as well (16GB Wi-Fi + LTE). The color temperatureisn’tconsistentacross the display, the right is a cool temperature while the left is a lot warmer of a temperature. Im hoping that after a little while of use things will clear up.

Given that there are roughly around 25 people here with the problem (no doubt more will add to this over time) and the fact that Apple are predicted to have sold between 2.5 and 3.5 million in just the first weekend alone (source CNET) I'd say that the numbers affected are relatively small by comparison. That's not to say there isn't an issue but just to put it into a more meaningful perspective!

It's not a realistic perspective as most owners who have not posted here may be facing the same problem. They either didn't bother to post it here and went straight to Apple store for a replacement or putting up with the uneven dirty whites. And this could be 85% of all iPad Air's sold so far who knows? Or 99.329%? You can't go by how many people posted on forum complaining about this issue that's nowhere near accurate.

It's sad that this uneven dirty white issue is still going even with the iPad Air. You see, a long way back I was predicting that iPad 46 (model year 2054, the future) will still have uneven dirty white and light blotch issues until they completely move to 3D pad device.

goodolcheez

i got the same problem with the yellow area on the left side.

To check if it was just my brain "wanting" to see that there is something wrong I separated the screen with a piece of paper. The left side definitively looks dirty compared to the right side.

Not sure what to do since (almost) every iPad Air seems to have this problem.

Maybe keeping it a month or two and getting a replacement?

None of this is new. This has happened with every release of the retina display since the iPad 3. I went through a number of those to find an evenly lit one with no weird colors or tints. Out of all the iPad airs that I've seen, almost all of them had yellow spots and/or uneven lighting. And store lighting does make it difficult to see. Not sure if it is the technology that is prone to these issues, or the cheap Chinese manufacturing.

Hello guys, I just had a call by apple because they saw my post they said they will take my ipad back and replace it, I think we made apple aware of this problem as he said they check the forums and the want to "capture" all affected iPads (which is a lot) so at least apple now know about this problem. Well done guys at least we made a change.

My friend got an iPad air. I asked him how his screen was... he said "perfect".

When I looked at his screen.. .his screen also had the issues with the "book spine" edge shadows.

This issue is subjective. He is not returning his, he said the issue does not bother him.

I have checked 3 apple stores and checked 2 from target and 100% of all the iPads on display including 2 from my friends and my 3 replacements all have a form of the "book spine" dark issue. Some are worse than others but the problem was absolutely there on all of them I checked so far.