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RCBH928 wrote:got new iphone 12 with OLED screen. I don't see how is this technology is superior to LCD. It has a yellow hue and the "deep blacks" are a joke, if you don't pay attention to it to make side by side comparison you can't see it. This was not my experience when I went to the TV showroom and the LG OLED tv had blacks that looked as black as liquid tar and other LCD tvs looked "grey" in comparison. Maybe Apple ships bad OLEDs.
Some of that may be a result of features in Apple OSes. The more subtle one is True Tone, which adjusts the color temperature of the screen according to ambient lighting, in attempts to create a more consistent image in different environments, but it does seem to target a slightly warmer tone than many may be used to. It's something you typically want to turn off if you're actually working on photography/design stuff.
The more extreme version is Night Shift, which deliberately skews the image warmer to avoid blue light as you (presumably) get close to bedtime (it's supposed to make it more difficult to get to sleep, etc).

Both are things you can disable, so if you haven't, may want to give it a shot.
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Here is an image to show how yellow it is compared to how its suppsoed to be:
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This has always been an issue with Apple iOS devices for years. I wonder if its the same with other smartphone manufacturers. Somehow the computer displays from Apple do not have this issue.
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It hasn't been an issue with any of my iOS devices. Isolia told you where you can check to make sure your device isn't adjusting the color to adapt to time of day or the surroundings. Most analyses of Apple's screens are that they match the RGB curve rather nicely, and the LCD (not OLED) screen on my XR is superb.
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That picture literally looks like a comparison image for True Tone on and off. It's not "wrong", it's just targeting a warmer white point than you desire. If you didn't, just go into Display & Brightness and toggle it to off, see if it looks better to you.

It is something Macs do as well - macOS, like iOS, will ask you to confirm you want to use it when logging in for the first time on supported devices. It was more just something that Apple rolled out on iOS first. iPad/Pros in 2016, iPhone 8 in 2017, and it only hit Macs with the 2018 MBP refresh. Between that, and (likely) upgrading your phone more frequently than your laptop, you're just more likely to have run into True Tone in action on iOS.
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I ran into the True Tone issue when I replaced my MacBook Pro over the summer. I wasn't familiar with the feature and it totally threw me off when I started opening some of my design files for work -- the colors looked off IMO, I had to turn it off right away.
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Note wrote:I ran into the True Tone issue when I replaced my MacBook Pro over the summer. I wasn't familiar with the feature and it totally threw me off when I started opening some of my design files for work -- the colors looked off IMO, I had to turn it off right away.
I have yet to hear someone who likes this features
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RCBH928 wrote: I have yet to hear someone who likes this features
I don't mind it. There may be some people for whom it makes sense? I haven't really noticed a dramatic change between it on or off for me, anyway.
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SamuraiMegas wrote:If I'm still active on here by 2024, I'll have been a user on here for half my life.
Doooo eeeeeeeet!
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marurun wrote:
SamuraiMegas wrote:If I'm still active on here by 2024, I'll have been a user on here for half my life.
Doooo eeeeeeeet!
I most definitely will. It's funny to me, I'm more nostalgic for this website than the games talked about on here, as I'm fairly young. I've always understood what the term nostalgia meant but I wasn't really old enough to experience the sensation in depth, until the last few months. Been feeling it a lot lately looking at old posts on here.
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