iPhone 6-Darkish band and off yellow color top of screen on white backgrounds.

For some reason I can't open the photos you posted. I went to the Apple store again today to purchase an iPhone 5c for my wife. Her 5S (less than two weeks old) is going into low signal mode and burning out the battery. There are no issues with the 5c screen although this is a speck of dust I'm not worried about. I'm trying to activate the 5c and it's telling me Apple servers are down. This is getting ridiculous. I'm speaking with Tmobile and we are doing a master reset and software update. I'll see how that goes in about another 20 minutes. I'm considering switching to the 5c myself. I'm fed up with poor screens. I prefer consistent color accuracy over overly saturated photos...frustrating.

I'm having nothing but issues with these iPhones (5/5s/5c) lol. I've been with Samsung Note/Galaxy series and haven't had all of these problems (sigh)... I'll deal with that (speck of dust on 5c screen) over the patchy and urine yellow screen on the iPhone 6. The iPad Air had the same issue (yellow/blue/pink) screens with uneven coloring. I'm guessing the higher the contrast ratios on the newer screens appear warmer and more blotchier since they can produce more color than a lower contrast panel and so imperfections show up easier. I could be wrong considering this is just an observation.

I've decided to just return the iPhone 6. I just had way too many instances with defective products from Apple at once. And I do not have a phone to use while my iPhone 6 ships out and I wait for an exchange considering I'm job hunting, need to be available to come in for interview at moments notice, and have children, etc.. That's not to say that the Apple Customer Service is not good. It's just that there is no inventory hardly available in my area and Apple seems to have a bad track record in regards to poor screens in their products from what I've been reading on all these forums. Most people probably don't care, but that's something Steve Jobs in my opinion would find unacceptable. Apple was/is successful because he was a perfectionist and every detail mattered to him. Quality and consistency mattered to him.

I recently purchased three other Apple products besides the iPhone 6: A Mac Mini (the wifi is dropping and having difficulty reconnecting when waking from sleep...brand new out of the box; I do have an Apple router FYI); An iPhone 5s (for my wife: it keeps going into "Low Signal Mode" and draining the battery very quickly...within four to five hours), and an iPhone 5c that was just purchased today that will not activate to replace the 5s... Four products all with issues. I'm very upset with all the time and energy I put into Apple over the last couple of weeks. This has not been a good experience for me :-/

Hey Kamil1,

thanks for the response. I asked the Apple rep if I had any other options such as keeping my credit card info. as collateral... I'm wondering if "advance replacement" was an option because I kept asking her if she was certain there were no other shipping options in which I could hold onto the iPhone 6 until a replacement arrives. I waited ten to fifteen minutes on hold to be told I had no other options.

Anyhow, I really liked the design/aesthetics, performance, etc of the iPhone 6, but I'm about exhausted with Apple. I still have to go back to the Apple store on Wednesday with my wife and daughter (about an hour plus drive from my home) with the iPhone 5s, 5c and Mac Mini to show them what's going on. I'll likely do returns than exchanges as I don't want to go through this again. I feel like I've gone above and beyond already and this has all consumed too much of my time and I'm not compensated for my misfortunes lol.

buldogg77, nbuubu and bwible.

I decided to return the iPHone 6. I have not had good experience with Apple products. I purchased three recently, which all had major issues (purchased within weeks of the iPhone 6). I had a 5s, which was going into low-signal mode and burning out the battery before mid-day. I had a Mac-Mini that kept dropping the wifi signal and had issue reconnecting when waking from sleep (this became nearly useless for anything online) and a iPhone 5c that could not be activated (a complete brick). The 5c was the last purchase (on-top of the Mac-Mini) that made me give up. I was not going to exchange four products that cost around $2k.

I ended up ordering the Moto X second Gen. It has an amoled display and amoleds typically don't have uniformity and hot pixel issues. Also, I got accidental coverage, accessories and 32GB of memory for less than I did for the purchase of the iPhone 6 16GB (about $600 after $50 student rebate). I also found Siri was not as good as Google's voice services (or directions for that matter) and the OS was not as intuitive with multitasking IMO.

I am a fan of Apple products overall and it's unfortunate Foxconn is doing them a disservice. Hopefully you all get your issues worked out. I'm baffled at how Apple products tend to get the best reviews on screen quality. Before a review should be given on accuracy, how about back-light uniformity? That is just as important for the overall user experience IMO.

While the shadowing is still clearly visible, the color/lighting uniformity does appear better (more uniform/consistent) on the replacement phone (one on the right).

What annoys me though is that my $200 Nexus 4 (I bought it during Google's fire sale) has a way better display than many of the iphone 6 phones I have seen. It just bothers me knowing a $200 phone screen is much better, consistent and clearer than a $650+ flagship phone that suppose to be the best Apple has to offer. As much as I liked the iPhone 6, I couldn't keep it knowing my backup phone (Nexus 4) had a much better display along with other phones in the market with more to offer for less cost in my opinion. As I previously mentioned, hopefully Apple will get this cleared up on the next model. I'm doubting it though since their phones typically sell like hotcakes and most people don't care about screen quality/yellowing and lighting consistency.