iPhone 12 OLED Screen Issue

if you tested your device with a black video from youtube, power mode switch off hdr mode. so without power mode on you can watch videos in hdr and there is no flickering/glowing like your test showed

so maybe thats the reason

Quick update:Tried with every app that has a pure black background.Including the clock app and safari.

SAME RESULTS!!

Full brightness with low power mode causes the glow

Full brightness w/o low power mode no glow

(Tested on both)

Mine doesn’t have this issue. It have a warmer or yellowish whites but not this. My original 12PM had this. I don’t think is SW related. It is a defect in the display itself. If it were a SW or OS issue the all IPhones would behave the same and there are 12PMs without this issue running 14.2.1. I installed 14.3 RC2 and these issues are not corrected.

Can you please tell me how I can check the production date of mine?

Anyway, you are absolutely right! We can’t turn a blind eye on a device which costs a fortune. I’m one of the pickiest guys who return their phone for the slightest issue that nobody can even notice.

I returned my 11 Pro three times last year and my brand new 12 once.

The guys at the Apple store know me by heart and smile at me when they see I need their help! 🤣

With that being said, I think we are just wasting time as the replacement units still have this issue. I think the entire lineup is affected to some extent.

When I got mine back from warranty, the first thing I did was check if it still had the flickering issue. Got my replacement unit, left the Apple store and got straight in the car (it was really dark). Long press on the right side button, the Apple logo appears, a couple of seconds and.... BAM! There we go again! Less visibile and annoying than the green tint I had on my first model but the glow was still there, although much more subtle and light grey instead of green. My brother got his back for the exact same reason, he was sitting in the car next to me. Exact same problem, his one was slightly worse than mine but sill “acceptable”.

So I thought: why the **** would I bother to ask for a replacement for the third time in a row if the risk is to get an even worse panel?

Given that I’m really cross with Apple and beyond disappointed, the options here are:

• Ask for a refund and try to get it in a couple of months when the problem subsides (fingers crossed)
• Stay positive and prey for a sw fix.

Btw, I’m from Italy so, as you can all tell, it’s a sort of pandemic and these faulty units are scattered all around the world.

14.3 has no effect and the Apple store reps act oblivious to the issue. This issue is known, widespread, and should be addressed. It tells me the lack of sincerity and openness of Apple as a company. The customer/consumers deserved to be helped and told openly what is happening. We spend great amounts of money on these devices and have certain expectations. To expect a proper functioning OLED without flickering is not a high expectation, it’s basic. The fact that Apple is staying silent on this issue is frightening, is it because it’s a hardware issue that affects enormous amounts of devices? Why is there no public statement not this?

I had some pretty awful blacks with backlight bleed on a iPhone 12 Pro Max (October production date). I ended up returning it and rebought a phone today. New phone was built in November and does not have the issue. Screen looks better than my iPhone 11 Pro. Really strange how it affects some devices much more than others.

they didn't made a public statement. but since a while now Macrumors had access to an internal leaked information for technicians telling them to not replace the phones cos a software fix was on it's way...

Here...

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/18/apple-investigating-iphone-12-display-issues/

So I returned and got another phone today. The issue is still there but better.

On the first one I got, raised blacks appeared in apps with black layout, eg. clock app and Instagram (dark mode). It also appeared in the YouTube app as well as viewing black images in the photos app.

Although this new one I got also shows raised blacks in YouTube and photos, it no longer shows raised blacks in apps with black layouts. As these two devices have problems at different levels, I am concerned that this is a hardware issue.

btw I tested at multiple brightness levels to ensure that the raised blacks didn’t appear in apps with black layouts.

Completed setting up the 12 Pro from my brother this morning. Rebooted my phone and his at the same time. Mine has the flashing during boot, his does not. I can not replicate the issue in any way on his iPhone 12. Also blacks are black on his device on all brightness levels.

Update: A colleague got his iPhone 12 PM today. According to the serial number, it was produced at the beginning of December (!). When Booting (white Apple logo on black), the black pixels light up. Also seen in a black-test HDR-video from YouTube. It only "flickers" slightly, but the error is definitely there. Even on iPhone 12's that left the factory yesterday.

Edit: iOS 14.2 was installed.

As I mentioned this before, this problem is still there. However this only happens when the phone is in low battery mode (SDR), or if the video is not available in HDR. Funny thing is that when viewing the same video on YouTube web, there is no flickering at all. Another notable thing is that the flicker on my previous phone was of a green tint and was much more visible. Although it can flicker in the YouTube app, the flicker was not green, it was more of a gray flash. It is also much less visible. Since this only occurs in the app but not on web, I suspect this is either a hardware issue or YouTube is not yet fully compatible with the iPhone 12 Series. As for the white bar that appears when you adjust your volume on YouTube, if you take a screenshot, you can see the white bar in the screenshot, meaning that it’s not the display acting up.

I returned it because I already have Pro. I’m not sure which end is at fault that’s why I’m not giving any opinions anymore. I need the overall functionality of the phone rather than complaining about its display. Hope people here rethink their priorities.

Alright guys, after a whole day of testing and using my phone, I found the issue to occur at following situations:

1)flickering side bars when watching true black on HDR on YouTube.

2)the whole screen was on (black pixels were raised) when watching the same video on YouTube web

3)zooming in and out on a picture would cause a quick flicker (the same picture in both Photos app and Messenger)

Problems that occurred on my first phone but not second

1)flickering was not green on my new one

2)flickering to occur when using apps with black background

3)green flicker when starting up

Funny, when I read your comment I was thinking this comment is directly from Apple:

„I need the overall functionality of the phone rather than complaining about its display. Hope people here rethink their priorities“

This could exactly said by Tim Cook to make this problem more usable to us fellows haha

This Leads me to the question @marcpodi

Are you Tom Cook? 😂