Screen flicker on iPhone XS

Seems to be related to the brightness slider. When I go to the brightness settings and enter a room that is brighter or darker, I see the slider move as normal. As soon as is passes under the letter S in “brightness” it flickers once. I tried moving it manually, and I get the same issue at the same spot. It’s annoying, since it constantly goes up and down as I move around, and causes the flicker every time. Never had this with my 9 iPhones before this one. I hope it’s software related and there’s a fix on the way.

Anybody else having this issue?

iPhone 6, iOS 8.1

Posted on Sep 24, 2018 9:30 PM

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Dec 17, 2018 3:27 AM in response to Rahnay

iPhone XS Max is my first device with TrueTone feature and I wanted to give it a try. Fast forward I really like this feature. But then I noticed the screen flickers when the display color temperature is on yellowish side. I turned night shift on and it also did the same thing. It always flickers when passes a certain threshold (in this case, it also flickers when passes the ‘S’ letter in brightness. It happens both manually and with auto brightness. This problem only occurs when either TrueTone or nightshift on (the display must be yellowish). When I turned off TrueTone or nightshift, it doesn’t happen. What blew my mind is, I went to apple store and tried all the demo-iPhone with OLED-display (XS, XS max) and all of them has the same issue. The phone with LCD-display don’t have this problem. Then after that I went to my local electronic store and tried with the Samsung devices (S8, S9, Note 9) because the OLED-displays were made from samsung. I turned on the bluefilter on the samsung devices and all of them don’t have this issue. I hope this is just a software bug. Really annoys me.

Dec 17, 2018 8:48 AM in response to FelixJojo

I replaced 3 times my XS and all with the same issue, then I send it to repair and come back with the same annoying thing, after this I sell it, now I have the XS Max silver from last week and of course with the same issue, I was friday in Apple store in Berlin Germany and all devices almost 20 demo units have same problem...on iPhone XR does not this maybe because is LCD and not OLED. This is my journey with the new iphone, I really love IOS and i don’t want go to Android but what is the solution, to use just iPhone XR or downgrade to iPhone 7 or 8. Is unimaginable if it is a software issue to persist from September...😐

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