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It sounds like True Tone, especially if you're not concerned with pure color accuracy, is a pretty neat trick that actually works.
by Aelinsaar 11y ago
It sounds like True Tone, especially if you're not concerned with pure color accuracy, is a pretty neat trick that actually works.
- MBCook 11y agoIt's pretty great. It's less accurate, but it seems better for casual (non-photo editing) content since it appears to behave more like a sheet of paper would look. It helps the screen "disappear". I've heard reports that photo editing apps (such as Photos, and 3rd party products) disables TrueTone while they're the foreground app to prevent TrueTone from causing you to mess up the color balance.
- simonh 11y agoI'm very happy with it. Like Retina before it, you only really notice it when you don't have it. Very quickly it becomes the 'new normal' and going into settings and switching it off can be a real surprise in many common lighting conditions. Night Shift is a much bigger effect, and isn't calibrated to your environment, but I like it. I know some people think it's too extreme, and it is noticeable. I'm using it on my 6+ right now and it obvious it's on, but again if I switch it off temporarily the blue-whiteness of the un-shifted display looks horribly sickly. But then the warmer colours work particularly well with the HN colour scheme.
- joshschreuder 11y agoI agree, the effect of turning it off is extremely jarring. It's kind of like using f.lux late at night and then turning it off. The blue light becomes blinding.
- Aelinsaar 11y ago"Becomes the new normal" Oh, that's the very best kind of tech!
- jessriedel 11y agoWho would care about absolute color accuracy rather than perceived color accuracy? Even if you're a graphic designer operating in a standardized lighting condition, True Tone just becomes equivalent to an uncorrected display. It's like you were reviewing the first pair of shorts you ever had with an elastic band, and you said "Well, it's true the shorts are very comfortable and seems to fit me perfectly. But I'm a Medium, and the shorts don't conform to the definition of that size".
- wingerlang 11y agoI reckon if they send stuff to print media they must case about the real values.
- jessriedel 11y agoIf you print something displayed on the screen, then that print will more closely match what you see on the screen if True Tone is being used.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoThat whole section of the review was weird. The analogy I was going to use was optical correction of fonts. Yes some characters are too big or too small by objective measurement, but if the typographer has done their job well they will look consistent to the human eye, with all its foibles.