iPhone XS Max - Yellow Tint

I lucked out and went to Apple Store and they had one Space Black iPhone XS Max (512GB). I swap it out and the screen is much better, not 100%, but I can leave with it. It just seems like all phone have this slight yellow hue with True Tone off. As always Apple Store employees are cool and helpful (beside the one who wanted me to go home to get the box to return. Ask for manager problem solve.)

Funny while at the Apple Store my old phone developed notifications showing like a burnt in image (it was very faint) and then it got two shades more yellow. That phone was clearly a defect.

Not Solved. I just checked my color filter it was on. Forgot iCloud restored all settings. So what I thought was a fixed phone is not. Still yellow if I turn off color filter. Ugh. It seems this is a defect all the way round. A couple of my friends have the same issue. Never and issue on the iPhone X model last year with smaller screen and produced by Samsung. Who knows what to do at this point. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is looking really good about now.

Yep, I already did that (stated in the prior post). That's why I thought the problem was fixed, but it was just my color filter settings that restored on the new phone from an icloud backup. If that was off, I would have definitely noticed in the Apple Store. But yep agreed, an issue with all phones. If I didn't purchase the Apple Watch S4 and have all Apple Devices know to man, I would be heavily thinking about returning iPhone for the GN9. I'm shocked Apple QC didn't pick up on this. True Apple fan here, but all of the Apple users paying $1,000+ for phones should be able to turn off True Tone and get the correct display without having to enable color filters with still having a slight yellow tint. They need to go back to Samsung manufacturing their OLEDS.

I contacted Apple and spoke with a Senior Advisor. He opened a ticket with Engineering to look into the issue since this "yellow hue" is happening across all iPhone XS Max phones. The Senior Advisor mentioned that there was a push to have a more warm effect across the phones, so this might be done on purpose. I stated, that's what the option for True Tone is for, how can it be an option, if you still will give the phones a slight yellow hue with True Tone turned off? Like they should leave that to the customer to decide, because obviously its really noticeable to people who do not use True Tone. It would be nice if this was an software issue they can push in the next version of iOS 12. Yeah True Tone is an option, let the customer choose, if they want the warmer or cooler screen.

Will keep posted!

Thanks for the post, but I have already been done that and aware of this (see prior posts). When true tone option is turned off, it should not still be yellow, requiring customers of a $1499 phone to have to manually tweak color filters to get somewhat of a decent color. I'm still waiting on engineers, but there already been reports this seems to be a software issue as its happening across all phones.

Also, the way you have your color intensity set will give it a blue hue, I would suggest putting it right under the "I" and "N". But you said it looks perfect on yours, which further tells me something is off with these phones, as if I set my like how you have it, the phone is blue hue with a hint of yellow coming through. Right now mine is about a perfect I can get it at 80%, but it just you can still that yellow bleeding through.

I wish we could pay the $1499 over time, lol. If its a hardware issue, then its a defect which Apple one admit to, but if its a software issue being that we can adjust color filter to get some type of relief, then hopefully Apple can include in iOS 12.1 later this fall.