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iPhone 18 Pro Screen Flickering in StandBy Mode

I recently bought an iPhone 18 Pro, and I noticed a strange issue with StandBy mode.


When I use StandBy in a dark room, the display switches to Night Mode with the red-colored screen. If I lightly tap the right side of the screen to change the displayed content, the screen starts flickering very badly.


I returned the first iPhone 18 Pro because of this issue and got a replacement, but the second iPhone 18 Pro has exactly the same problem.


Has anyone else experienced this issue? I’ve searched online but haven’t been able to find anyone reporting the same thing.


I’m wondering if this is a software bug or if there’s something specific to my settings. It seems strange that the exact same issue happened on two different iPhone 18 Pro devices. Video showing the issue

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Have you updated to iOS 27.0.1, which was released by Apple five hours ago? Perhaps that will rectify the issue.

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