Iphone 7 and 7 plus's screen dimmer/yellowish than iphone 6 and 5s

Dear Wayira ,

am also facing the same issue , i purchase this iphone 7 + from Dubai mall of emirates apple store and i done the compliant also but they didn't give me a appointment to show this to technician and replace it. am attaching the picture iphone 7 plus left iphone 6 right

I'm on day three and I noticed the same thing when comparing with default settings and same brightness settings side by side to my standard 6 plus. Maybe my 6 Plus was like this and I never noticed it because I didn't have another iPhone to compare it to. I'm waiting to see if the yellowing (warmer) color tone lightens up a bit. Either way if it does not I'll be seeing tech support to see if we're all just crazy or if its part of the new color gamut.

Hi All -

There is an active thread on this issue at Macrumors that started immediately upon receipt with over 400 posts already.

See http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-7-screen-brightness.1996867/page-18

Very interesting. I definitely noticed a big change in color. I have both phones side by side. But in my opinion, the 6s is too pink. I always thought so, but before that I had Galaxy's. Whenever I saw someone's iphone, I always thought the white was too pink. So for me this is an improvement. The white seems more like a real white to me. I do agree, though, that it does seem a bit dimmer when set to the same brightness.

I also had this issue and I was able to fix it through settings. Go to Settings > General > Display Accomodations. After this, turn 'Color Filters' on, select 'Color Tint' and go all the way to the bottom to change the 'Hue' to a more neutral white.

Hope this helps!

I think its a OS problem. But there is a fix!

I had my phone replaced for the same issue... weirdly enough, the new iphone they gave me worked fine for a couple of minutes, but then after restoring from iCloud it went back to yellow...

Go to Settings / General / Accessibility / Display Acommodations / Color Filters

Then you can adjust the color of the screen... I had no clue this setting existed but it was able to to turn "Color Filters ON" then tap "Color Tint" and found the right color for me... more blu-ish/whit ish if you go with intensity all the way to the left and hue around 60% to the right.

I still think this is a setting bug witht he OS because I compared my phone many times with the ones at the apple store and they all seemed white vs mine that was yellow..... the problem was that I never saw those phone's settings before changing mine... next time im near the Apple store I'll take a closer look to the color filter settings.

Same with me and my iPhone 7... as well as the brightness is not that good enough, compared with my iPhone 6s...

Does Apple comments this? What should we do?

it's crazy how they don't say anything about it. I went ahead and got my phone replaced for a new one but weirdly enough... it failed aigan... crazy.

So i guess there's no point in replacing then... 😠

Same issue - horrible difference. Even my 2014 ipod has a better looking screen.

Attached photo - 6S - 7 - 2014 ipod.

"25% brighter - in that stained 1600s ancient scroll kind of way" I guess is what they were shooting for.

Using the color filter tool in accessibility is a "fix" that shouldn't have to be implemented when no other device needs and reduces brightness by quite a bit.

Wish Apple would address the issue.

Returning mine tomorrow.

Definitely something wrong. I bought a 7 at my local Verizon store the first day. No yellowing at all unless I set it to be yellow at night.

Mine (256 GB 7) has not had any color problems at all, so It might be worth a shot.

So what might be worth a shot...?

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