iPhone XS screen blurs horribly when scrolling! Beware!
Beware the iPhone XS and XS Max! Their screens seem to have a fundamental flaw or bug that makes them unusable in low light conditions! To explain:
Yesterday, my iPhone XS arrived. Having paid almost $2,500 for the XS, Ode to Joy played in the background as I unboxed it -- must be an underfloor gnome quartet just waiting for Apple products to arrive -- and I quickly set it up. For good measure, I berated the iPhone 7 it replaced and put it in the corner of the room so it could learn its lesson. It sadly observed through its rear-facing camera while I frolicked with the XS and enjoyed its wonderful OLED screen.
As the day waned and night set in, the screen began to darken. It was at this point that I started to get a strange feeling when reading and scrolling through text with the XS. I couldn't put my finger on it, but something wasn't right and I started to feel a bit unsettled. At the end of the night, I took the phone to bed with me so that I could do a last bit of reading. It was at this point that I realized there was a major problem with the XS and its screen. Who or what was this thing that I had brought to bed with me? Like my iPhone 7, I figured that this would-be bed fellow was well behaved in the sack. It wasn't!
When scrolling with the XS in low light conditions, there is considerable blurring on text and images, which makes text unreadable and gave me a headache last night, keeping me awake for hours. The problem is extremely pronounced in low-light conditions when screen brightness is low. Notably, primary colors (red, green, and blue) seems to ghost away from black or other colors, particularly black text on a white background. This is obviously a MAJOR problem for anyone who likes to read at night because it makes the phone not just unusable, but an actual health hazard because it causes headaches!
Is this a hardware or software issue? Does the screen refresh rate or interlacing have anything to do with it? Seems like a MAJOR problem for people like me who like to read in bed at night!
The iPhone XS is simply not usable in low light conditions for reading and similar tasks. Can a fix be provided ASAP? If not, I'm going to have to return the phone and go back to my iPhone 7, which did not have this problem.
MZ
iPhone Xs, iOS 12