iPhone 6: Apparent backlight uniformity issue

Sorry to hear that I am going through similar situation. Asked for one more replacement for space grey 128gb will report back once I recieve it

I have to correct you there . I think it has nothing to do with the colour because in my case all 3 iPhones I had replaced were space grey and had exact same problem. And guess what all of them have serial numbers starting with C3. my friend got his iPhone silver from Manchester and he does not have any issues and his phone serial number starts with F7. So good news is that there are good phones out there but very rare. I suspect like your saying it could definitely be factory production issue

Hi gam3r, I guess you might be onto something. If there are space grey models exhibiting the same issue it is most likely factory related. Good news in a way, as I really want a silver model, not space grey. Guess I will wait a while and place an order online.

hope you get a good one soon. I will report back once I get a replacement next week. Fingers crossed. If that fails I'll follow your path by returning for full refund and wait until these batches go away

Yep! That's it! Some of them has shadowy top left and right and some only top right.

i had 3 c38. Ally's same problems.

in my opinion there are two problems:

1 huge yellowish shadow at top or only top right

2 wavy small dark shadows at top most often in groups (live ie waves)

wwhere:

1st one is rather design related (not enough LEDs?)

2nd is rather production related (glue?)

I Am still in dilema whether to give another shot as I have returned my iphones, being in hope that maybe apple has changed something or maybe lcd fabrics are not in rush anymore.

Yea, I don't know what else to do either. My iPhone 4 is broken, and I kinda need a phone. But I'm really not satisfied with these screens. So stressful going through multiple replacements though and calling Apple continuously.

I could return it and get a 5s, and then wait till the 6s... Good idea?

I Am already on 5S but only because I already had one.

TO be honest, I think That Apple failed here. Not sure why.

with bigger screens and less space for backlight they should rather go to oled (which has no backlight at all).

But somehow they have decided to go to numbers instead of quality. To provide us with thiner phone still using lcd- sacryfing backlight uniforuniformity.

I Would not mind if iphone 6 would be half milimeter more thicker or £50 more expensive. half milimeter is not much for users but a lot more space from technology point of view. Just like £50 which is not really so much for users but it is really a lot from technology cost point of view.

so surprasingly they they have made a decision which was rather other brand specific- to go to numbers instead of quality.

I Don't think that half milimeter thicker phone will make Internet viewing less comfortable. But uniform backlight will definitely do as with iphone 6 I am simply disracted by by shadows thinking all the time that there is something on the screen that have to be cleaned.

SO I would say that iphone 6 is almost perfect phone.

MMaybe this is the reason.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/08/22/iphone-6-production-delayed/

I also got the bad OOBE when received my new iPhone6 64G Gold on 10/9. It's really sad to saw this defect on my first iPhone. It's obvious dark area in right/top of the LCD. I had capture the compare photo with my hTC M7. Hope engineer team can seriously to figure out what happen and improvement it soon.

Mine looks exactly like that!

Yes exactly like mine !!!

But less yellow tinted ! My first one was yellow tinted like yours but no shadow. I had to replace it because of the loose display on the left corner.

2nd also a loose display and now on my third the display ist white but I have the shadow on the top right which none of the phones before had !

Really annoying !! Many people life with it or even don't recognise i...I guess

Seems like a major issue #shadowgate ? :

http://www.techwarn.com/iphone-6-dark-shadow-on-top-of-the-screen-and-yellow-on- the-bottom/

Okay, I have an update. I called apple again. Took an hour on the phone. They transferred me from an indian, to an american, to an englishman, to an irishman and finally to a scotsman. Now that exercises your accent interpretation skills!

Anyway, they are sending out another replacement. They said, although I don't believe them, that this was very rare, and that I had just had very bad luck. I tried to get them to agree to check the screen on the new phone. They kind of avoided saying they would, but said they would put in the notes that I want a perfect screen. I don't know if this means that someone at the factory will be told to look at the screen or not.

I don't have high hopes. If this one too has a poor screen, at least I will know beyond a doubt that they are mainly all bad. If so, then Apple really should switch to AMOLED. I bet the samsung screens don't have these problems.

Hi!

I am on my 4th iPhone 6, space gray 64 GB, it has the same issue perhaps slightly less. I am seriously thinking to exchange it for an iPhone 6 plus, I am used to 4,7 and can get used to 5,5, I think. Do you know if they haven´t got the same issue? they seem not.

GGood news. I've seen they have new iPhones with serial c39 in apple store

BAcklight is more uniform. I've noticed that they have swapped old c37 and c38 in shop phones so almost all available in store to see and touch are now c39.

so it is right moment to go to store and try again.

My first replacement was a 39 but had green tinge to parts of the screen. Hoping there are better ones out there.