Why Is There a Weird Orange Hue on My iPhone?

Your iPhone has many settings that you can adjust, which affect the appearance of the content on the screen.

Many of these result in various obvious and deliberate changes, while others are a bit more subtle.

Our tutorial below will show you the setting that you need to change if there’s an orange tinting on your iPhone screen that you would like to eliminate.

How to Fix the iPhone 6 Orange Screen

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Select Display & Brightness.
  3. Choose Night Shift.
  4. Turn off the Scheduled and Manually Enable Until Tomorrow options.

Our guide continues below with additional information about why the screen on your iPhone might be orange, including pictures of these steps.

Does it seem like there is something wrong with the display of your iPhone, even though you haven’t dropped the device, and there doesn’t seem to be any physical damage to the screen or the rest of the phone?

It’s possible that Night Shift mode is currently enabled on your iPhone.

Night Shift mode is meant to automatically switch your display to warmer color temperatures, which might help you to sleep better at night.

The difference between Night Shift mode and the normal display mode is the appearance of a slightly orange hue.

It’s easier on the eyes, but you might find that you don’t like it or if you didn’t enable it in the first place, you may be looking for a way to turn it off.

The steps below will show you where to find the setting so that you can adjust it to suit your preferences.

Related: Why is the Clock Blue on My iPhone 11?

How to Get Rid of the Orange Tint on Your iPhone By Turning Off Night Shift Mode (Guide with Pictures)

The steps below were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10.1.

Note that the screenshots below do not show the orange hue or tint that we are going to remove, as that display change is not taken into account when creating screenshots on the device.

The same thing happens if you have enabled the inverted colors option.

Step 1: Open the Settings menu.

tap settings icon

Step 2: Select the Display & Brightness option.

open the display and brightness menu

Step 3: Select the Night Shift option.

open the night shift menu on the iphone

Step 4: Turn off the Scheduled and Manual options.

When Night Shift mode is turned off completely, the settings will look like the image below.

how to remvoe the orange tint or hue from your iPhone screen

Now that you know how to get rid of the orange tinting on your iPhone screen, you won’t need to be distracted by it when you don’t want or need ot use the phone’s Night Shift capabilities.

If you would still like to use Night Shift, but only at specific times during the day, then enable the Scheduled option and choose the period of time for which it should be turned on.

Are the colors on your iPhone really strange, even after turning off Night Shift Mode? Learn how to turn off inverted colors and see if that fixes the problem.

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