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

I Have the same problem..yellow tint on the top of the screen and darkish band...i would like to send it to assistence on holland but i m not sure apple see it as a problem and i dont know if the replacement could have the same problem or worst..

You can try, I replaced mine three times already, every one had something wrong with it, got a decent screen (still far away from perfection) and living with it. hopefully next year, they'll improve.

So I'm on my 3rd iPhone 6 Plus now. To recap:

#1 Dark patch at the top of the screen (weird wavy lines). Also has yellow stain at the top left and dark shadow around the edge of the screen. The rest of the screen was a lovely cool Blue crisp white. Looked great.

#2 Bright white spot at the top of the screen noticable on the Hello setup screen. So blatant I didn't even bother setting the phone up.

#3 No dark patch at the top of the screen or edges. The phone spent the first 48 hours getting really hot with a pegged CPU but seems to have calmed down now. The whites on the screen are a little more yellow and there is a minor tint across the bottom of the screen. You do have to look for it and it sometimes catches my eye when scrolling down text.

Is it the perfect phone? No but the screen is decent and as long as the heating issue doesn't return I think I'm going to keep it. It's very disappointing that the experience of purchasing and using an iPhone is so negative. My father has a white 6+ and it's really uniform so they do exist. I don't think its unreasonable to expect a screen with a uniform backlight and colour tint.

Isn't that why we pay a premium for Apple products?

I'm sitting with two iPhone 6 16GB. One gold and one space grey.

The screen on the gold is looking nice. White is clear white.

The screen on the space grey white looks greyed. This is really annoying. Its like you hold up two white T-shirts up against each other. One of them is brand new and the other is used. That's like these screens.

There is no backlight bleeding whatsoever on the screens..

This is how to fix the shadow / yellow band on the screen.

First of all I need to tell yoy this is my 3rd replacement of iPhone 6 16 GB Space Gray. The first one (from Apple Store) has a „clicking-display“ issue.

The replacement phone gets 2 black stripes in the middle of the display after one day of usage.

The next replacement has significant gray / shadow band on the top of the display and the yellow tint on the right bottom of the screen. I tried to replace it, but now Apple said „We do not see anything bad on the screen, the is no issue with phone's display.“

So i tried this little trick which I found on the internet - and it really works:

1. In the evening I put the phone to the charger, full brightness of display (turn-off auto brigtness) and start playing the „neverending“ musical clips on the YouTube App for all night long, until morning
2. The second day I did the same + I put my t-shirt on the phone (which get very hot)
3. The third day I changed the YouTube videos for static pure white photo / picture (charging phone, full brightness, all night long, t-shirt on the phone)
4. The fourth day I changed white photo for gray photo
5. The fifth day I changed gray photo for black photo

And I voilá, the magic happened - the right bottom yellow tint is 100% vanished and the screen is perfect white, and the top bottom shadow tint is now 80% better.

I think maybe it is really the „screen polarizer glue issue“ - try to find on YouTube some clips about LCD display and polarizer and You'll see the well known yellow glue which is between the LCD panel and polarizer. Maybe this is the problem and the glue needs to dry longer time.

The same yellow / shadow band issue have many of Oneplus One device users and they reported the problems are gone after 2-3 weeks of device hard usage.

Try it and You'll see. And sorry for my english, i'm not the native speaker.

!!! please don't try it unless you want to set your house on fire !!! Even if you survive this free test for Apple, your battery and screen life will be greatly shortened.

Get a replacement of iPhone or something Android.

I could tolerate (stand) yellow and dark cloud on MacBook Pro (use only windows 7). But 4.7" has such a little real estate, 10% of smudge will ruin the whole experiences.

From what people have reported and I read, dark/yellow bands appear at top, bottom or corner. It means the LCD is good but the manufacturing process damaged those area (smudged) when fitting the screen on, being it glue, air leaking (popping sound in one case), dirt under class, or uneven pressure (pressure does change LCD color/lighting a lot).

Someone overseeing the production line should examine some samples and found out why this happened.

What is the most important part and also the most expensive and also most used? the screen. One bad screen can easily kill a company.

Previous LCD was sourced at $99 and now the larger size is around $73. LG LCD is far inferior than Samsung - easily seen from their TVs.

No house on fire or battery / screen damages 🙂

my iPhone 6 has the same problem - a darkish bar at the top of screen, it's really annoying me. I bought this phone in Japan just 5 days ago (Jan-2), when the phone turned on (in store), I can immediately see the problem, then I asked to change a new one, the new one look better but still unacceptable for me. I am planning to make a replacement again and if this not solved I think I will just get a refund. Very disappointed!!!

P/s: sorry about my English, I am not the native speaker,

4 replacements here of ip6. Every single unit had screen yellowing problem so I gave up.

Hi,

This may be related to the Backlight part, this is common when is not glued properly or is not in place, I recommend you to go to the Apple Store to check if you can apply for guarantee.

I have this yellowish color too on my top of the screen on my iphone 6 then the screen is warmer on the right than on the left side and my question is will it spread all over my screen? will it harm your phone? Or lead to something to blackout the screen or something? Thanks!

I took i phone 6 16 GB Silver 2 years back,as of now it gets yellow color top of screen on white backgrounds what should i do ????