I thought this was a thing of the past, but today I noticed the faintest burn-in on my ipad of the safari boxes where you have websites and search. Anybody else notice this?
I was an early adopter mk1 bought straight away mines mainly the domain of my 4yr old gets heavy use and has been left on games for hours no screen burn here.
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Originally Posted by xraydoc
Traditional "burn in" is due to phosphor wear in CTR televisions. Obviously, LCD's do not have phosphor, so burn in as you're thinking about it is impossible.
In fringe cases, however, LCDs have been known to have some slight image retention. Image retention, as a rule, is not permanent. If your iPad is suffering from image retention, which I doubt, keeping it off for 24-48 hours should solve the problem.
Unless you're keeping the iPad on a static screen for days/weeks at a time, my guess is that you're experiencing a defect with the panel. I personally keep my iPhone on for 12+ hours as a time because I use it every night as a bedside clock. Never have I experienced even the faintest image retention.
I'd take it back to Apple. They'll replace it for you.
Giles, I found the same thread, and I think it explains what I am seeing. I guess "burn in" is really the wrong term, but rather "ghosting" where bright areas may retain some of their brightness when they are switched to a gray background. I guess it's somewhat "normal". I'm not too worried about it as long as it isn't an early sign of a bigger problem.
Same thing happens to my iMac when it switches to (for example) the login screen, I can see borders and boxes and bottom icons leave a faint image behind.
The other day I noticed the exact same thing you're talking about. The safari web address field and search box were faintly visible on my home screen. I rebooted the ipad and it went away. Not sure what caused it but I hadn't noticed it before or since.
That's no doubt why Apple calls it a retina display: It makes a back-up of the image on your retinas for convenient 'off-screen viewing' Excellent!
Hopefully one day they will come up with a direct-connect to our actual retinas. Then I won't have to buy glasses any more, I'll just paste an iPhone to my forehead so I can see through its lens. The touch-screen may be a bit painful.
