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iPad Pro screen is yellow

Just got my new iPad Pro and love it, best iPad ever. But I've noticed the screen color temperature is significantly shifted more toward the warm/yellow tones than my other two iPads, which are cool/bluish. I like th blue better, it makes whites look cleaner. I was wondering if this is a common issue?


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Posted on Nov 14, 2015 7:08 PM

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Posted on Nov 16, 2015 5:02 PM

SShawn, this is exactly what I saw on my iPad pro before I returned it and the apple customers phone rep told me it was a defect and to return it. So I did.

a Coworke of one brought his in today and it looked somewhat yellow also but was hard to compare without my iPad Air 2


plaxe let me or us know what your replacement is th same or differen.


thank you

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Nov 23, 2015 3:03 PM in response to Adrian.ck

adrian.ck,

Obviosusly yours has a major defect...the yellow tinted screens are somewhat uniform throughout.Briansyddall, Im on the 6th 128GB gold unit and also has this dreaded yellow. I spoke to an apple store person and yes they said to just keep on returning them....But this isnt an answer to this problem. There is a possibility since all the 128's i've tried have this yellow tint that some say is warmer, that it may be done on purpose, because they feel that the user of the 128's is a graphics professional and some of them like the warmer color..I wouldnt mind if there was a way to adjust the base color like I have on my Macbook pro, but unfortunately there isnt...so I guess I'll just keep returning and buying until either apple fixes the problem or I get lucky with my purchase. Either way, if your listening apple, this isnt the way to manufacture panels.

Nov 23, 2015 7:45 PM in response to shawnbuddy

Bought mine on 15 Nov. I have equal share of the screen colour problem too. Screen 1 was from WeChat where left edge has patches of blue/green colours. Screen 2 was from Chrome where the top of screen was tainted with pink.


Shown these screens & brought the iPad Pro to the Authorised Service Centre. Service report confirmed there was a light leakage on the display. I was told to bring the Service Report (together with the faulty iPad Pro) back to the sale outlet to get replacement unit on the spot. The sale outlet questioned the authenticity of the report and called for verification. Despite confirming the report is duly issued, the sale outlet was still put me on hold for 30min and gave me lame excuse "Sorry Sir, the color that you wanted is currently out-of-stock"


I am looking for avenue to bring my case up to Apple US. If anyone knows how can it be done, appreciate if you could let me know in your reply. TQ.

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Nov 23, 2015 7:41 PM in response to Cherry63

I took a pic of my ipad pro 128gb screen....the one on the right bottom corner is my ipad air, which has a nice white screen. If anyone wants to buy my yellowed screened ipad pro or wants one just like this go buy the 128gb units now..they are all like this...lol...By the way i have all the contact info from the apple specialist..and she escalated it to the engineers..they have my phone number..I told them. I would even be happy if apple would open a box and find me one that had a white screen..at this point i'd even exchange mine for an opened box from apple...as I think its hopeless at this point in finding a good 128gb unit....I just am keeping my fingers crossed..they resolve this..by the way im not keeping this unit just using it..till hopefully this gets resolved...Everyone that buys from apple now has until jan 9th to return the units..



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Nov 28, 2015 7:51 PM in response to shawnbuddy

well I got a replacement no 6 exact and its better than the last one..but still showing signs of off white yellow tones...but to boot, the apple pencil is not seen by the ipad....this thing is a disaster..i knew in my heart that apple rushed these out....so now i have an appointment at the genuis bar to check on this ...of all things..here is a screen shot of what i get..it doesnt see the pencil as a legitimate attachment...this just keeps getting worse and worse...if this doesnt work out..i will have to wait 3 months..from now and hopefully they sort everything out....fingers crossed....User uploaded file

Nov 29, 2015 12:02 AM in response to shawnbuddy

After two units (iPad Mini 4 16GB) from the online Apple Store, I have decided to ask Apple to give back my money and I have decided to buy another one (iPad Mini 4 64GB) in a shop, but also on this I have the yellow screen problem. Just for info, from the serial number also this last unit has been produced in october 2015. I think the problem is on the units produced in the last month. I think for the yellow screen issue there are only two possible reasons:

1. Apple has started to use other panels of other producers that need about a specific calibration.

2. There is a problem in the panel production.

I suppose that the reason 2. is more probable, because the issue is on all the iPad devices (Mini, Air and Pro).

Nov 30, 2015 8:24 AM in response to Naif SA

I went to the Apple store this WE to compare demo iPad Pro Screens because mine has a non uniforme screen : a side more yellow and another pink.

All demonstration units have different screens : yellow, blue, green, pink tint and a non uniform color tint from top to bottom and right to left.

I had that kind of disappointments with all my iPads and iPhones and I ha owned all models.

Same thing with my Macbook Pro retina 15''.

Just have a look to the pictures below. You know what, i asked to an Apple boy why screens tint is so different.

He told me that for him it was exactely the same and maybe it was the border color that make this...Ridiculous.

II think my eyes are different than most of people...

Now I keep my units because I dont want to play to the screen lottery anymore.

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Nov 30, 2015 9:06 AM in response to shawnbuddy

Hello Everyone🙂:

I have read the various postings about the "yellowing" of the screens, and this is a sad. It truly is. I remember the last time I upgraded my iPad2 to an iPad Air, I had to replace it 4 times because it had various problems with bleeding, and it would not turn on, etc.


To me, this sounds like a screen defect. What I learned is when I upgrade, I always test my iPad to its max, with various benchmarks, to see if I can get it to fail. If it does not, then I can rule out hardware problems, and narrow it down to the iOS.


There is also a bleed/dead pixel test you can run on not just the iPad, but on all the tablets, and I use it because it really pops out the brightest colors of the iPad. It is great! It shows you if there really is a problem with your iPad. I always run it on my iPad, and I do it at least once a month, just to be sure my iPad/iPhone are okay.


Here is the link to the test if anyone wants to try it out, and to see if you have a bad screen, or if your iPad is okay. Remember to follow the directions to the letter:


iPad Bleed/Dead Pixel Test: http://www.ipadmalaysialabs.com/ipad-backlight-bleeding-dead-pixels-test/


Thanks, and I hope this was helpful! May God continue to richly bless you and all those you love and care for and keep you all safe🙂

Dec 2, 2015 8:15 AM in response to GodGirl2015

So just wanted to let you know, my theory was not totally correct that the yellowing is limited to the 128gb units...I had gotten another 128gb unit my 6th and probably my best, because I cant stand even the slightest yellowing on any unit..I know Im picky. So I figured my wifes unit was really white and was a 32gb. Im so crazy I decided that i'd rather have a white 32gb unit than a yellowed 128gb unit and even though this last one was relatively decent I wanted even a better looking display and i'd live with 32gb. So I went yesturday to get the 32gb unit figuring by now they would have sorted out this screen problem, how wrong was I...below to the left is the 32gb unit and the right is my 128gb unit for comparison...I will be keeping the 128gb unit....also as an update, my apple pencil would not be recognized by the ipad pro. Something was wrong with the way it communicated with the unit...so I brought it into apple..but instead of them offering me a new unit...they ordered a part for repair...so they must know about this problem. I was going to just give it back, but they are so hard to come by i guess i'll have to get it repaired..by the way if your apple pencil fails..the repair is 76.00 ouch......anyway below is the screenshots..interested in comments.

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