I installed iOS 16 today in hope of getting more comfortable eyes than iOS 15. Turns out it is worse. Will be checking for a few days. If you haven’t updated to iOS 16 then wait and see. Any of you have the same issue?

@"[deleted]"#p23210 which iPhone do you use? I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max and it seemed to be a bit better. If people want to upgrade and try, it might be better to do it now. In the foreseeable future Apple will revoke the signing keys for iOS 15, so downgrade would not be possible anymore. Better to try it now as long as it is easy to go back.

I’m using iphone se 2020. iOS 14 and earlier are all fine for me. iOS 15 made it a bit worse, but iOS 16 brought me some headache. I will rollback soon as I’m not able to use it for long now.

I can confirm the same for me with my iPhone SE 2020. But Apple must’ve changed something in iOS 16.4 because it’s better. Still not as comfortable as iOS 15 but it’s definitely easier on the eyes.

Recently upgraded to IOS 16.5 from IOS 15 and left without phone. I was using Iphone X, it do not gave me any serious issues(all other OLED Iphones not usable for me) until IOS 16.5, after upgrade I have same issue as from other higher Iphone OLED models. And most interesting thing here, that it not possible to downgrade.

@"artdyl"#p29363 I saw a post on Reddit that said the 16.5 update made someone's iPhone SE 3 unusable as well. I can only use the SE iPhones so I really hope this is something they fix with future updates (I'm going to avoid upgrading as I'm on 16.1.1). I can't use any of the OLED phones including the iPhone X.

I suspect the temporal dithering technology was introduced since ios 15 and was much worse since ios 16. My ipad air 2 was made useless since the upgrade to ios 15, while my iphone se 2020 got a little more uncomfortable to look at on ios 15. And ios 16 was the final nail to the coffin that made my iphone become useless (my ipad air 2 does not get to have ios 16 update, but it is already useless anyway). My devices are all LCD display ones so PWM will not be the reason of eye strain here, and I could use them comfortably before ios 15-16. This is not the first time I’ve seen people talking about the same idea. Many devices suddenly became useless after ios 16 upgrade, according to multiple posts online. My iphone right now is on an ios 17 beta version and I can confirm that the eye strain still persists, so anyone on any ios version of 14 or earlier should NOT try to take the risk of upgrading your ios to any newer version. Stay on ios 14 or earlier versions to be safe. Also if you want to purchase a legacy iphone or ipad, you should check which ios version it will run on. If you buy a device which has ios 16 out of the box, it is very likely to be a wrong purchase. I can’t believe why Apple is allowed to make such a radical change to the display rendering and not make any statement about it anywhere.

@"[deleted]"#p30236 would you say iOS 17 is more comfortable than iOS 16? I’m thinking of updating my phone (on iOS 15.2) 😅 but like you, i also discovered that iOS 16 felt worse than iOS 15 on my iPad, hence why I didn’t update my phone

@"earlgreymilktea09"#p30240 iOS 17 and iOS 16 look the same to me now, the headache is still there. I'd strongly recommend that you keep your phone on iOS 15 and wait. Or better, you can borrow an iphone with iOS 16 and see for yourself. But based on the case of your iPad, I don't think you will be happy with iOS 16 on your iPhone either.

I hate that many apps don't support me anymore. I'm on 14.8 until the screen falls off.

@"Clokwork"#p30391 Same situation. Let's see if i will be able to use the iphone 15 with ios17..

Eye strain with iOS 16 and iOS 17 - do NOT update iOS

jordan

twomee whenever I use iPhones which I cannot at all anymore.. they would make me super sensitive to red lights specifically. Maybe it's the red pixel flickering that caused that. Interesting

hansennnnn

Wrightpt1

deepflame after you downgrade ios,is eyestrain dissapear ?

TemporalDithering

well, iOS 18 is here... anyone tried it? your impression?

twomee it would be really great if you could repeat the test with the iOS 18.

twomee

TemporalDithering I tried iOS 18 and iOS 18.1 but unfortunately I feel the same strain… can we still hope they will remove it or it will be exist always?

CocoPlops

This would be handy! Tempted to try iOS 18 as this 11 is causing issues on 17

Tyoma

Never had issues on my iPhone 12 (can't use any iphone from 12 or macbook from m1pro)..

Tried updating to IOS 18 and got very strong eye strain.. downgraded back to 17.6..

TemporalDithering

At this point, I think the dithering can only be discarded if the screen can natively display a very wide color gamut that dithering is not needed anymore. Apparently 10-bit seems not good enough for Apple to discard dithering. I think we will need to wait for a very long time.

The good news is there’s nothing new with recent iOS versions anyway, so we can just stick to our current versions and avoid updating.

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