Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past year many people have been impressed with
the latest iphone 13 devices but also many people have concerns and have asked me to do a device
comparison as far as the displays are concerned so this is something i typically do every year so we
can take a look at how they're different as far as their color accuracy and again this year iphone 13
series phones have won awards for color accuracy as being the most color accurate phones out there
they look fantastic this year and last year quite a few people had concerns about yellow tint where
the phone looked to be a little bit more warm than it should be and that was definitely a concern for
some but many others including myself thought it was just due to color accuracy however the
displays look a little bit different this year and so not only do we have newer phones with different
displays because we have 120 hertz pro motion we also have possibly different color calibrations so
i thought i'd show you some different backgrounds and see how they compare year over year there's
been concerns about red tint on the latest phones and so i thought we'd check that out as well at
lower brightnesses some people have said they've seen that and as far as promotion and pwm we'll
take a look at that as well now as far as the devices here we have some from every generation
as far as a few back and the iphone 8 plus is the first to start on the left so we have two
lcd phones we have the 8 plus then the iphone 11 which you can still get then we have the iphone 11
pro max then the 12 mini and the 12 mini had the worst hint of any of my phones last year
and then we have the iphone 12 pro max the iphone 13 mini 13 13 pro and 13 pro max
now all of these phones are set up the exact same way in the display settings if we go to settings
under display every one of them has true tone turned off and night shift turn off turned off
as well as auto brightness off so all of the brightnesses are set the same so on all the phones
if we take a look at the brightness you'll see that they're saying the same on every single one
of them so we're at about the top of the do not disturb button on all of them or screen mirroring
button whatever shows up for you but we're at the top of those buttons and that's the screen
brightness on all of them so they're set about the same now the newer phones are
going to be a little bit brighter displays in general just because they are from the factory
they have higher brightness levels so they could vary slightly but this gives you a general idea
now as far as the backgrounds let's take a look at a white background and this is a background
that i created it's pure white and all i did was create it in pixelmator pro and then export
it and then airdrop it to all of these devices and i have three different backgrounds to share
and as you can see already that the backgrounds look dramatically different on some of the phones
so from right to left with the newest phones the 13 pro and the 13 pro max they look extremely
similar to me under under this light we're at 5400k daylight and they look extremely similar
again with the 13 mini and the 13 they look very similar but the pro versions look a little
different and maybe that's because they have variable refresh rate displays with promotion
again going to the 12 series phones they do seem to have a little bit more yellow tint to them
so they are a little bit warmer and they have a very similar look between both of the displays
the 11 pro max looks more similar to the 13 mini and 13 and then the lcds look dramatically
different so you can see that here so if i turn the brightness up a little bit since they are a
little bit more dim compared to the others still it looks dramatically different so the displays
are calibrated differently as lcds typically lcds will hold their color accuracy longer
such as the pro display xdr and oleds will sort of
fade in the green areas over time but so far everything looks to be holding up well
now i also have a gray background i created so we could take a look at that so again these were
created for the 12 pro and 12 pro max size phones so i do have to zoom a little bit on the 8 plus
but if we swipe over here this is the exact same background on all of them again i airdropped it
and similarly again all of the matched pairs that i talked about before look the same the lcds look
dramatically different and so gray will look a little bit different on all of them i think the
best looking probably to me are the new 13 series 13 mini 13 and the pros but the pros do look a
little bit darker under this light with this same background now again i did create another
background pure black since lcds don't turn off the pixels for black i thought we'd take a look
at that and take a look at all of the oleds that way so as you can see here these look pure black
from what i can tell all of them do it's very hard under this light to tell the difference however i
would say the 11 pro max actually seems a little bit bright under this and maybe the the 12 mini
but the 13 series look to be pure black to me when it comes to that so they all look pretty good
the 13 series definitely are the best when it comes to that now the good news is on the newer
phones i've not heard anyone complain of green tint at all so i wouldn't expect that on the newer
phones however if you have a 12 mini or 12 pro max that has green tint and you're still having
it well we thought last year that apple would fix that with a software update they haven't done that
so if you're having that issue on say a 12 mini and you just got it maybe you want to bring it in
and have them make sure that it's color accurate and then it's correct if that's a problem that's
bothering you i find that it's very hit or miss depending on who you ask so and it typically
is under low brightness i don't normally have my phone at very low brightness so i don't see it but
the yellow tint is definitely there and it's just the way the phones are calibrated on the 12 series
the 13s look a lot lot better now as far as the red tin issue well one person i saw on a forum
said that in order to replicate that what you would have to do is go into your accessibility
settings then go down to your display turn on auto brightness then maybe go to a white background
and turn the brightness all the way down and then there would be red fringing around the outside
and as you can see from this foreign forum post there is some red tinging on some people's phones
i've not been able to reproduce this myself under any circumstance or any lighting condition
so i've not seen it on this phone so it seems to be again very hit or miss for those of you
experiencing it i haven't seen it on any of these phones and it obviously is a problem for some and
if it bothers you well then you might bring it to apple however typically you're not going to see
it because you're at a very low brightness rarely unless you're in dark environments
and if you're looking for a specific issue there will be specific issues to some diff
different displays it's just the nature of the display however it shouldn't stand out in any
situation so maybe you're watching hdr content if you're seeing red around the outside well
then maybe it's an issue and you could have them take a look it is a pro display so i would expect
it to be very color accurate now so far we have not seen a fix for green tint like i said on the
12 pro max series phones so at this point i really don't expect any sort of update so unfortunately
that's the current situation with that however if you want to change your color and there's issues
with them that bother you you can definitely do that so if we take a closer look let's zoom
in a little bit here if you want to adjust the display there's a few things i would recommend
if your display is bothering you first of all i always turn off true tone and the reason is i want
the display to look as color accurate as possible when you turn it on it changes it to look more
paper white which typically has a little bit more yellow or warmer look to it it's something that i
don't like if you're editing photos or video it's going to change the overall look and that's not
what people are going to see if they don't have a true tone display so i typically recommend
turning that off if you're editing photo or video again night shift will make it very yellow so if
we enable this you'll see it looks very yellow as soon as i do that so i would typically not enable
those unless you want to use them before you're going to bed then of course you could do that
but if you want to adjust it a little bit more you can go under accessibility and under accessibility
if we go down to our display under display we have different color filters we can reduce the
white point of course that will help in certain situations and also color filters so if we want to
turn on a color filter and change it to our liking we can do that although this is something that
if you're really trying to adjust it to be color accurate it's better to usually leave it alone
but you can adjust it and try and try and make it as accurate as possible for you so you have that
ability now when it comes to pwm on all of these displays well oled displays are going to have it
however with this year's model of phones i find it to be even better than last year now pwm is a way
for the displays to control brightness it's how just about every oled out there works especially
on phones some tvs don't have it though but what it does is when you move the brightness slider up
or down the brighter it is the faster it flickers and typically at the brightest setting it just is
full on and so what it will do is flicker the display faster or slower to bring that brightness
down you perceive the slower flickers as lower dimness or we see that as a dimmer display
that's how that works and it's just the way they all work lcd displays don't do this they just
turn the brightness up or down and so this can cause some people to feel nauseated give them
headaches and i started to see this on the iphone 10. as we got to the newer phones it
started to get better and better if the pwm rate is lower it will bother more people's
eyes but about 1 in 10 people have this issue myself included however when we got to the 12
series phones it was pretty much non-existent and especially with the 13 pro and 13 pro max
it's even hard to pick up under slow motion so let's take a look at that so i can show you so if
we go into the camera we'll go to slo-mo and we'll record here you can see the difference between the
display so here's all of the iphone 13 series phones as we're recording those in slow motion
and then if we look at maybe the middle phones here the 12 the 11 and the 11 pro
max you're going to see a difference however with lcd displays there's no flicker whatsoever
so you're not going to have that issue so it won't bother your eyes at all as far as that goes
but in general the newer phones definitely seem to be less bothersome to my eyes and cause less
eye strain so they're much better as far as that goes now the 13 pro and 13 pro max have
pro motion this year which refreshes the display at 120 hertz or can bring it down to 10 hertz
that's not related to pwm however if we slide these phones over we can take a look at what
the difference is so you can see this just between the 13 and the 13 pro under slo-mo
again if i swipe left to right so let me show you that so as i swipe left to right you'll see the
difference in smoothness you can definitely see this with your eyes and under slow-mo
it just shows it a little bit better as there's no jitter or is less jitter with the 13 pro max
as you scroll between both displays so going back and forth you can see the smoothness overall
so this year all the displays seem to look really good on the new phones and the 12 series phones
again are a little bit warmer it doesn't bother me but it may bother some people so if you're
thinking about getting a 12 series phone and that bothers you i would wait and get the 13 when it's
available but the 11 is still available and they do look great and most people you're not going to
see the difference unless you put them side by side again when you go into photos and things
you really won't see that difference until they're side by side so most people won't even notice with
day-to-day use but there's definitely a difference with the newer phones and i think they look a lot
better this year but let me know your thoughts on this in the comments below i'd love to hear
from you there and hopefully that clarified some of the questions you had about the displays if
you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper of course i'll link this wallpaper in the description
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