iOS 12 Washed out color / colour

SOLVED!!!

my issue has been completely resolved, screen is back to normal and beautiful again:

1. Connect iphone to itunes
2. Enter into recovery mode (see on youtube how to do it)
3. Choose UPDATE (even if there is no updates for your iPhone)
4. Once your phone will wake up from the process (itunes logo on screen will disappear, you phone will just enter standard operations, even without system re-instalation, you will have your screen back to normal!!!)

Worked like a charm!

same here (iPhone 7) on IOS 11 the Screen was just a pleasure to look at, great colors, great readability. On IOS 12 now the Homescreen is way too bright and washed out. this is not a Bug or has anything to do with restore your phone after the update etc.

They changed the filter on the background.

I hope they switch back or AT LEAST GIVE US the option. The Screen now looks like a 10$ China Screen, nice Apple.

I fixed this on my phone (super bright background with washed out white text) by going to General->Accessibility->Display Accommodations and just disabling then reenabling my 'reduce white point' setup. I already had it enabled before the upgrade so it looks like just disabling/reenabling seems to fix it (for me at least, YMMV)

Yea they said the same thing to me, no one has reported it. I noticed it right away when updating. I actually noticed even more when I got my XS Max. I called support and they basically told me to bring the phone back to the apple store and replace it. I did, cause my screen was a bit yellow anyway... and look! The color saturation issue is still there! They had to have changed something. Especially if a lot of people have noticed it.

I tried:

• reduce white point (on and off)
• color filters (several settings)
• auto brightness
• increase contrast (on and off)
• update through itunes
• factory reset

None of it worked.

I hope it will be fixed in a hotfix or in 12.1.

Not occurring on my iPhone X, you might try restoring your iPhone, something may have gone wrong with the update. Plus recheck all of your display settings in case some were changed during the update.

Hello,

I have the same issue on an iPhone 6s. After the update the colours look like high contrast is always on. I checked, the high contrast setting and it's off. Tried to turn it on, no difference.

Please fix this issue as the screen is horrible to look at.

That's not it Brian, I don't think I should have to set each of the colours and everything by hand until I get to something I like. That will take a lot of time and I just want my regular display back.

Thank you for the help though.

So I spoke to Apple support who neither confirmed or denied they’d heard of this issue. They asked me to carry out a full reset in case it was a clitch in the IOs12 down load. This hasn’t resolved the issue. Next step apparently is to get the phone over to Apple to check the screen. Obviously I’m not buying that it’s a faulty screen especially when it is happening to other users also.

I noticed immediately that the screen had changed on my iPhone X when I upgraded to iOS 12; the lock and home screen are really bright even though brightness setting is the same. I hope Apple sort this as it looks dreadful.

Same here with my iPhone 6. It's still early days but overall, I'm happy with the update as it has taken my previously sluggish iPhone 6 and made it reasonably responsive. However, the screen does now look washed-out and "cheap" for lack of a better adjective. I've tried the various suggestions above to no avail.

The same issue on my iPhone 6s. “Hacks” described in the topic didn’t help me. Colors are messed up on notifications screen and home screen, looks really terrible. In apps it’s normal. Seems like basically color scheme is changed.

Same here, I have an iphone SE.

Right before the upgrade to iOS12 the screen looked perfect.

But now with the upgrade it’s JUST TERRIBLE, its all WASHED OUT, Colors look awful and whites are now bluish.

Please fix this as soon as possible, since I’m a photographer and if this issue continues, I might have to change my phone