Screen flicker on iPhone XS

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I’ve been noticing this. It’s very annoying.

Moving from a bright room to a dark room, the screen slowly dims. When it gets very dim (below 20%), there is a sudden single flicker like the brightness dropping suddenly. It happens every time and it’s also possible to reproduce this by manually (very slowly) moving the brightness slider down. When the slider hits that same point (around 20%), you see the drop.

I should add I’m on an Xs Max...so potentially software if it’s happening on both Xs models. Seen some other posts on this including one person who had 2 Xs Max models and both were doing it, and another who got a replacement only to find it was doing the same.

So you replaced your iPhone XS because of the Screen Flicker and the replacement is doing the same issue? I have the same issue and was about to go to the Apple Store to get replacement but if maybe the new phone will have the same issue then I will wait to the new iOS 12.1, what do you think?

I have the iPhone XS Max and I don’t even have to go into a room It does it on any app and I’ve done everything I can think of to make it stop. The flickering light is blinding. I just tap it to turn it on and it flicks and it doesn’t matter what I’m doing. I wish Apple would do more testing before they release their phones. There is always something wrong with them. I have the 510 GB and this thing cost me $1570. More than my MacBook Pro. It’s really upsetting.

I also notice it on my xs max. It seems to do it in low light in various applications. I even noticed when the Face ID didn’t read it did it once. I believe it’s a software issue. Just because every phone isn’t affected doesn’t mean anything. The charging issue with some of the Xs phones earlier never happened on mine. So hopefully apple will fix the issue soon. Not a big issue but still annoying

So true. I just wish Apple paid more attention to the isues. Even my Apple Watch Series 4 is bricked due to the latest update. Took a week to get an appointment for Tuesday. Never had issues before.

Ours (2) flickers for no apparent reason. I could go into my bank account app, or any other app and it’ll do it. Or I can just unlock it and it will do it. There is no rhyme or reason as to why it flickers. I just hope they do an update to get rid of this issue. I’ve had every iPhone since the iPhone three and Apple is not keeping up with the many issues of owning an iPhone. It’s very disillusioning especially since this iPhone cost me over $1500.

I had this issue too. Very annoying!

I turned off reduce white point and I no longer have the issue. I think the flicker might occur at the point your resuce white point is set to, it was that point for me anyway.

Hope this helps!

I will give that a try. However, I don’t think us, as a consumer purchasing expensive products from Apple should have to do all this to have a product work correctly. I just hope they’re working on a fix for this.

Is this flickering very noticeable? I have something like this, but it's more at 40% of brightness. When I have True Tone "on", and I put phone near window and then back to darker part of room, I see the True Tone change (from cold to warm) and with this change I see a little bit of flickering at Apple photo app (during watching pictures) 😟. A I said, it's more at 40% of brightness, and don't know if this screen problem or software. Would be nice if Apple said something, if they working at update...

I‘ve sent an email with the description of the issue and a url to a youtube video which denonstrates the problem to Dan Riccio, SVP Hardware Engineering at Apple. This was a week ago. No respone till now :-(

To be honest, when I slide brightness bar - nothing is happening. I only see it at photo app.

Can someone test it for me:

Turn on auto brightness and True Tone. Take a picture and go to camera roll. Now try to put your iPhone to environment where brightness is ~40% and try to move it around just to True Tone can do the job. Watch the white bar above the picture. I found out that many times when I watch pictures at camera roll, white bar is starting to flickering a little bit or dimming. It's especially noticeable when you watch pictures in two environments (day light and bulb at the same time)...

There is no such effect in Safari, Mail or Settings.

i founded the issue is related with night-shift, true-tone and screen record.

night-shift on + true-tone on: flickering

night-shift off + true-tone on: flickering

night-shift on + true-tone off: flickering

night-shift off + true-tone off: no flickering

if you open the screen record, there's no any issue.

night-shift on + true-tone on + screen record on : no flickering