iPad Pro has OLED HDR color peaking bug, to be fixed soon

Initial reviews of the new iPad Pro models have arrived, and so has news of an OLED bug causing some colors not to display correctly.

Apple lifted the news embargo so initial reviews of the 13-inch iPad Pro and 11-inch iPad Pro could be published. However, some bad news has arrived with the good as a significant OLED bug has appeared.

According to iMore, which discovered the issue, specific HDR content causes blown out colors that show up as blobs or white streaks. It occurs with particular shades of blue, like navy or indigo.

A scene from 'Stranger Things' where a character's blue uniform has color peaking issues represented by white lines

An example of the color peaking issue. Image credit: iMore

Apple says it is a known issue and that a fix is coming. No timeline was provided, and there isn't any mention of which operating system version was in use on the test device — likely iPadOS 17 .4 .

There doesn't appear to be a fix in iPadOS 17. 5, which released earlier Monday, at least it wasn't mentioned. The fix will likely arrive in a 17.5.1 update or similar.

Starting Wednesday, the new iPad Pro models will arrive in customers' hands. Since the HDR problem is visible and could lead to users thinking their device is broken, expect a fix sooner rather than later.

7 Comments

cpsro 3239 comments · 14 Years

About 6 months ago

That photo looks poor to begin with. Was it taken with an Android phone?

40domi 138 comments · 1 Year

Photo very poor.
Not a big deal, it will be fixed by the end of this week

ITGUYINSD 548 comments · 5 Years

40domi said:

Photo very poor.
Not a big deal, it will be fixed by the end of this week

What about all the other issues that are "a known issue" to Apple on the new iPad that they aren't saying anything about? Next couple of days too?

melgross 33617 comments · 20 Years

ITGUYINSD said:

40domi said:

Photo very poor.
Not a big deal, it will be fixed by the end of this week

What about all the other issues that are "a known issue" to Apple on the new iPad that they aren't saying anything about? Next couple of days too?

And what are all of those issues, pray tell? Since you claim to know of them, tell us what they are.

macxpress 5912 comments · 16 Years

ITGUYINSD said:

40domi said:

Photo very poor.
Not a big deal, it will be fixed by the end of this week

What about all the other issues that are "a known issue" to Apple on the new iPad that they aren't saying anything about? Next couple of days too?

What a completely useless and generic statement... "other issues" yet fails to explain what the "other issues" are as if they don't really exist.