Color discrepancy between Lightroom-edited photos on Mac and iPhone 16 Pro

I am a photographer and brought a MacBook m4 pro for photoediting in Lightroom but when I edited pictures on Mac and transferred it on iphn 16 pro the color is different. there is a green tint on pictures shared to iPhone than pictures graded In Mac. I exported pic in surge . I don't know why these is happening and I regret for spending so much money and not getting accurate colours . someone please help me with a solution


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Posted on Sep 16, 2025 12:41 PM

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Sep 16, 2025 12:58 PM in response to sreenand240

sreenand240 wrote: … transferred it on iphn 16 pro the color is different.

How did you "transfer" them? What format were these pictures in? What Color Profile did you choose? In Lightroom Classic you have these choices in creating a jpg, for instance.


Here are pictures from my Mac and iPhone, both edited in Lightroom Classic, exported as jpgs, and viewed in Photos:

The picture was transferred from my Mac to the phone through iCloud.


How about yours?

Sep 16, 2025 01:23 PM in response to sreenand240

An iPhone is not a color managed device. It's a small computer that happens to include a camera in its design. But it is still not in any way close to something like a Nikon Z9, or a PhaseOne XT.


The Pro models do take great photos when ProRes is on and you're shooting RAW, .dmg images. But, expecting high end digital camera results from a phone, of which the camera components are very likely less than a quarter of the cost of the device, you're expecting far too much.


It's also impossible for any vendor (such as X-Rite) to create an app that would allow the user to properly profile the screen since that would require access to the OS. And that's 100% off limits to all third party vendors.


This is the closest you can get to matching color:


First, no excuses, turn NightShift off. Allowing the OS to change the screen all on its own from blueish to yellowish (and anything in between) depending on the time of day makes it a certainty you will never be able to match color from your phone to the Mac. Maybe even turn off TrueTone so it is always at a fixed brightness.


Do a test shot with the phone of a ColorChecker chart, or whatever you want to use as a color reference. Copy that image to your Mac and have the phone next to the Mac's screen so you can cross-compare. In Photoshop's Camera Raw (I'm presuming that's what you're using), use the Light, Color, and other settings to get the image on the Mac to match the phone. Save that setting!


For all future images, open them in Camera Raw and apply your saved setting to all images. Do any further adjustments you think the shot needs.

Color discrepancy between Lightroom-edited photos on Mac and iPhone 16 Pro

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