colors on iphone 13 looks cheap

It’s a form of Chromatic Aberration (CA), an optical defect caused by using curved glass. it’s present in camera lenses and many optical instruments if not treated properly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration

They are simply 2 different displays that differ in the resolution, brightness, and color profile. The color profile determines the accuracy of the source color compared the actual displayed color. Making each color brighter is not necessarily how that color is supposed to be displayed. You can view a complete comparison of both phones here including the display differences.

https://nanoreview.net/en/phone-compare/samsung-galaxy-s10-vs-apple-iphone-13

Color is very subjective. After all about 20% of the male population have one form or another of colorblindness. What you refer to as cheap another iPhone owner may perceive as correct, royal or some other superlative adjective. Two screens from two different manufactures will have two different firmwares and different software to display colors on the screen.

Colors in the computer world are not defined by a word. Colors are made from the 3 primary colors, Red, Green and Blue. The exact mix of R,G and B will determine the luminous, saturation and hue (commonly referred to as HSL). So, what one company describes as yellow will never match what another company calls yellow. Why? The HSL values are different and are subjective.

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Grinder21 wrote:

i started to notice that my iphone 13 have a bad colors (like washed out), then i grab my samsung s10 and compared it and samsung have more vivid colors. Idk if this is normal but even my samsung s8 have better colors. What can be issue? (i have truetone turned off and color filters also turned off)

The phones in that picture appear to be displaying an identical shade of yellow to me. The Samsung does have some sort of weird green glow down the right side of the screen, though.

Your perception may also be influenced by the difference in the other colors on the phones' displays.

Two smartphones from two different brands are obviously bound to emit two different colors from their display. It's not like iPhone is going to directly copy Samsung's display or vice versa. They both have different color profiles (iPhone uses DCI-P3 SCG while Samsung s10 uses Rec. 709 SCG)

Remember, color is subjective.

Jeff Donald wrote:

It’s a form of Chromatic Aberration (CA), an optical defect caused by using curved glass. it’s present in camera lenses and many optical instruments if not treated properly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration

Thanks!

You’re welcome.