iOS 18.5

Sonnis

I previously used an iPhone SE, then iPhone SE 2020, all the way up to iOS 17.

Never noticed any eyestrain.

When my iPhone SE 2020 upgraded to iOS 18, it was unusable.

So I bought an iPhone SE 2022, it came with iOS 18 and MUCH to my surprise, it was better!

When iOS 18.5 came out, I had a feeling not to install it, and have been avoiding it for 2 months.

But last night my phone installed it without my knowledge.

Now I can't look at my phone.

Anyone else?

NewDwarf

Sonnis exactly the same but I had a chance to rollback as the previous iOS version still was signing.

iOS 18.4.1 is good to me.

Andreiid

Sonnis This might be placebo. You are looking for the issue and your eyes get tired. Try to look at whats on the screen, not at the screen itself. Find something that you enjoy doing on the phone. Maybe write an email, play a game, edit some photos, anything that you enjoy doing. You might find that it was nothing wrong with the update. Hopefully for you.

PazT

My work phone is an iphone SE 3 and I‘ve never had a problem with it before, but it also updated itself to iOS 18.5 this week and now the colors seems off, like way to intense. For now I’m trying to avoid it and haven’t looked at the screen for more than a few seconds.

randomboolean

I've updated 14 plus to 18.5 which has cheap INCELL screen (IPS LCD, not OLED), and all good, no change in eye strain at all. It seems that all the worst flickering stuff is somehow integrated in the original screen or works only with the original screen, thus OS rendering doesn't change when using this basic screen. Of course it has it's own cons, PWM and most probably other stuff, that doesn't trigger me, but might trigger others.