Who has seen this before? p.s minor cases can be fixed, but something like this is there to stay. You can search "screen burn in fix" and keep a video running for a few hours. In my experience, it never works for any display I've had brought to me but It's worth mentioning.

Guru: * turns on dark mode* that will be $100 mam

The only "Fix" I am aware of is to run the phone in "inverted colors" mode while displaying the same image that was burned onto the screen. It evens out the wear and can make the burn in appear to be gone.

I always thought that screen savers were like an energy saving thing, I had no idea it was literally what it says it is

*proceeds to screen burn an image of shrek onto my phone*

The easiest way to see screen burn in is looking at an old arcade cabinet like Pac-Man where the map doesn't change shape and gets burnt into the CRT

"No matter where you go they're always there" Me looks around: is someone watching me?😀

That happened to my TV lol, when i was younger i used to watch a lot Cartoon Network, so if you change channel the CN logo it's still here xD

My question has always been this: how long is "too long" for leaving one single image up on the screen like that? When I was a kid my dad used to tell me to change the screen within like 5 minutes to get it to not burn the image, but obviously it's not that short of a time... are we talking an hour? Hours? A day?

Wow! I came to know today what the actual use of screen savers was!!!! Thanks man! Keep up the good work!!! Love your content

Bro that customer got scammed 😂

BTW, it’s not actually burned in. The term “Burn in” originates from CRTs where the cathode rays would etch stuff into the back of the glass, essentially burning the image in. On newer displays, it’s an issue with pixels losing brightness or shifting color over time. One really easy way to prevent this is to just use a lower brightness. At 50% brightness it will probably take a couple years longer for burn in to occur compared to 100% brightness.

"do you guys know what this is?" i got worried for a sec thinking he was genuinely asking the internet for advice haha 😅

My screen does that sometimes but it eventually disappear after some time

I've had it with all three of my smartphones so far, usually after about 1-1.5 years it starts to be noticable. Learned to keep my brightness down, stay mostly in darkmode and not let the sun ahine on it/let it get too hot. I'm not too bothered by it, honestly, if i'd change the screen every time i can just as well spend that money on a new phone after some time (i don't, i usually use mine for at least ~3-4 years or until they break)

So how do you prevent it? Just keep your phone at a lower lighting and keep it from getting hot?

This happens on my phone as well, if I’m on an app for too long you can faintly see that app on my screen even though it’s not there. It usually goes away after a while but it can be quite annoying sometimes.

Maximum brightness, reverse colors, always on display and let it sit at the exactly image that got burn in. It will burn the unburned areas and soften or make the marks disappear. It will cost you screen brightness but better a dimmer display than a marked display. You can also switch between light and dark mode if the burn is only the top status bar. I personally do this everytime I feel the burns are getting visible. But also I stopped setting my screen brightness too high.

There are techniques like pixel equalization, but those burns out all the pixels at the same time to make the effect less obvious. My lcd has already burned alot, and just like you said only minor cases can be fixed with apps like pixel refresh

Its usually compound by sunlight and UV rays. I ALWAYS got screen burn overseas on my middle east deployments it's so annoying, always of my keyboard

Who else just saw this guy on youtube and can't stop watching his videos

LCD doesn’t get burn in. It has image retention but it’ll go away most likely.

Ways to save your phone from this are to put on a sleep timer in your settings so when you leave your phone inactive for long enough the screen shuts off

Ah perhaps that's why I can sometimes see a faint image of the KZfaq play/pause and skip buttons on my phone lol

I always thought screensavers were useless and just something funny to have in your screen if you were AFKing. Every day we learn something new

If you burn an inverted image it will burn evenly the screen, meaning you’ll lose in brightness but reduce the burning issues

I also experience this with my last phone glad to know I wasn't the only one

i had this with my keyboard on my old phone and always thought i just spent too long staring at it! nice to know i wasn’t crazy lol

There is a fix, in light cases like that, there are pixel refresh softwares that essentially wear down every pixel to the same amount, now in extreme cases that isnt really possible. As well, lcd displays have gotten so reliable that you can leave a still image on them for months and still not get burn in

There is a program that fixes the problem. with dark box

All my life, i have been thinking that screen saver os to save energy 😂 thanks for letting me know.

I'm not going incognito on my phone ever lol

I always use dark mode and use max of 60% brightness indoor most of the time 40% brightness is sufficient for indoor use.

Actually it's not totally unfixable,depending on how much it's burned in. Some screens with lighter burns can be saved with some apps that made your screen shine blue, green, red, white and black (the primary colours of this medium plus all and nothing). That helps to reaktivate the leds. You have to run that for quite some time, about 15 to 30 minutes straight. At least you can try that before replacing the screen.

I had this on my old phone- I was so confused of what it was but ignored after a while

Screensavers really need to make a comeback.

Additionally, reducing screen bightness and setting your screen timeout to be short helps prior to burn-in (along with active elements on screen such as videos). Save your OLED and only power your screen on when you use your phone.

The problem on OLED devices is that the organic matter is used up faster in those places, which results in a dimmer light than everywhere else. Flashing different colors on the display for a while will make it less noticable, but all it does is "burn in" the rest of the display equally. It can't restore the used up pixels. And to my knowledge LCDs don't have any reported cases of burn in. The only form is temporary burn in that goes away once the display is power-cycled (for example by unplugging it). The reason for screen savers is that CRTs had burn in. So it's a little more historic than LCDs.

I had this multiple times and it was never severe, it would go away after a while

This happens on monitors too, back when I got my first computer i would leave it on overnight and eventually images got burned into it.

trans rights

Take a screenshot of the homepage, where all the burned apps are in the right place. Invert the colors. Let the picture display at maximum brightness for a week. Then the burn in is gone.

This is like new fear unlocked for me

Mine has the same problem from when it belonged to my mother. And i would uae dark mode, but my phone doesn't even have it. I've checked so many times to make sure lol

A few more tips from personal experience: 1. Set your screen timeout to the minimum. Some phones let you go down to 15 seconds. If you can, lock your phone when you're not using it. 2. Avoid bright wallpapers. As shown in the video, the phone had a bright white background which is not good. 3. I suggest setting a moving wallpaper. Get Wallpaper Engine from the Play Store (Android only unfortunately) and set a moving wallpaper. You can use any video as your wallpaper with this. 4. Don't let the screen stay on for long periods of time. Especially on bright colours like white, etc. 5. Set your screen's brightness to automatic. If you find it too bright/too dark sometimes, just change it manually. The phone will stip adjusting it for a while. 6. As PRG said, USE DARK MODE. One more thing is to enable Developer settings and enabling "Force Dark Mode for Unsupported Apps". This setting may not show up so don't worry.

The scarier thing is Zuckerberg is always there even when he isn't burnt in 😱

I actually have this with my phone from my keyboard. I am in an online relationship and we text all the time and I often just leave our chats open on my screen. Its kinda interesting. I never realized this is what it was called

I have this with my home button and youtube, matpat is forever watching...

Imagine if the imagines stayed there when you where watching por- nvm

Happy new month guys cant wait for christmas :D

consoles also have screen saving modes also known as screen burn in reduction

That also happened to my friend and he had old Roblox UI on the screen. That was weird 😂

My nan has bingo burned onto her screen LOL!

If you leave it on a wight background for long enough it will actually fix it. I had to do this on my school computer and it worked amazing

I sometimes get screen burns on my tablet after a very long time playing games on it, I would restart the tablet or just leave it off for a few minutes until it goes away. I was thinking it was about the software, not because of the screen 🤣

"Mark Zuckerberg is always there" 🤣🤣

It also works to use a screen filter, like the yellow one to block blue light, even if you apply like 10% after 5 minutes it should be better

After all this time I thought "screensaver" is just a cool name for background sleep image.. Didn't really think it is literally SAVE YOUR SCREEN

When you reach that point you know you played for too long. I allready got passed that point

My "burn in" would only last until the screen was turned off.

In 2016 my brother gave me his old phone, I used it up until about 1 month ago; the keyboard was burned onto the screen to the point of it being difficult to read other things lol. I hate how expensive phones are when everyone needs one (I wouldn’t be able to receive my disability assistance without having a phone, unfortunately)

I watched so much KZfaq when I was younger, I actually had a line where the video was vs. all the recommendations on the bottom burned into my old phone screen

This happened to my TV, I forever see my old Minecraft world whenever the screen gets lighter.

Dude nonchalantly said “leaving still image on Oled or LCD for too long cause burn in” as if they are freakin equally prone to the problem.

So that's what this is, I've had that for years without knowing what it was, mines of my Wattpad chat with my bff

Now i learned what the purpose of screensavers are. Its Been 22 years

This used to happen to me on my old phone, glad I got a new one

I have a classmate with the TikTok buttons burnt into their phone.

in my experience if you wait a couple days and not use your phone aggressively, it'll just go away (mine has gone away multiple times throughout last 3 years)

All the old ATMs used to have that issue. Could never see the options it was so bad.

Watching your vids is educational thank you

I have the same problem with my phone. Whenever I look at a picture that is very bright or when my screen is just white, I see the little Google icon from the widget on my home screen and also outlines of my keyboard even though I'm not using it. My fix will be the Pixel 6, gonna be more careful with that one 😆

I actually knew what this was. Deploys smug face

If you have an LCD phone screen, it's actually called image retention and is fixable with a simple youtube video. Search for a long image retention fixer video on youtube and play it at max brightness and make sure it's zoomed in to fill your phone screen's aspect ratio (i.e. no black bars) If you have an OLED phone screen, then you're out of luck and need a new screeen. For iPhones, the following have an LCD screen. All home button iPhones, plus the iPhone XR and iPhone 11. If you have any home button iPhone or the xr or 11 and it does get image retention, you can fix it with the mentioned steps.

Let's just appreciate how these shorts made our day.

LCDs have screen retention you almost never hear an LCD get an image burnt in. If you have retention on your screen, leave it off for as long as you used it. It should slowly fade away. This happened to me on my Switch when I was playing Tetris 99.

So in theory, I can steal my friends phone and burn in a questionable or concerning image on to their screen? ❤️

That happened on my old phone, and I loved it

This happens on my tablet when I play games for too long. I've always wondered why that happens lol

So I managed to fix burn in on my screen by just reversing colors and keeping the screen lit at 100% brightness for a few hours.

I went to Best Buy a month or two ago to help my grandma pick out a new TV. The sales guy kept trying to get my blind as a bat grandma (and her blind as a bat grandson) to buy a $4,000 dollar, _40 inch- OLED TV because it's a "good investment." "What about the problems OLED's have with screen burn in?" "Nonono, OLED's don't have burn in, they have software that prevents burn in, that doesn't happen anymore." Oh, hey, how are you doing, _this video?_ I know the software pixel shifting is a real thing, and it probably helps a little but it doesn't matter how many times you shift the image to the right by 2 or 3 pixels if you have solid blocks of color that are 50 - 100 pixels wide. You know, like how all watermark logos and banners and menus and all the other shit that always causes burn-in is visually designed? If the images on screen were actually different 2 or 3 pixels to either side, then I probably wouldn't have the kind of image on screen that causes burn in, anyways... Yeah, no thanks on that 40 inch first gen shit. WE decided to get a 52 inch screen for _literally_ less than a tenth what that other one cost.

My dad played solitaire so often that it burnt into his phone screen lol

Dark mode can also help prevent screen burning, so you can use it as a preventative measure too.

I was today years old when I know why it's called "Screen saver"

This happened when you leave the phone charging while the screen stays on, on the same thing. The charging heats up the phone, which is what allows burn-in. This is why you shouldn't turn off screen timeout while charging, or set a screensaver.

Please make a video on how to prevent this from happening please

Dude, I am glad I'm not the only one to notice this. My dad did this to his phone and I think it is due to the brightness and the amount of time spent on that particular screen frame. (He had his brightness all the way up, all the time).

I believe this is actually called pixel retention, screen burn-in is when the image of a CRT display is literally burned into the glass.

LCD doesnt have burn in, since the backlight is always white. It can have temporary image retention

Literally how could you not know this???

You can also leave flashing images and it will stimulate the pixels removing the burn in

The fact that youtube is burnt in on my screen (especially shorts) haunts me a bit that I spend so much time on yt

I got something similar on a 2015 MacBook. Instead of being permanently on the screen, the “stuck” image would flash whenever I went into full screen or back from it on a video.

That happens to my phone pretty often but it fades away after a few minutes.

I am actually having this for a few weeks now, red colour gets burned a lot when I am on yt (which is lot), but luckily, when I leave it be for a while, it goes away

"Mark Zuckerberg is always there."

DUDE THANK U SO MUCH THIS HAPPENED 😩

That’s why screen savers exist? I always thought they where just cool animations.

Your voice caresses my ears.

I had screen burnout and managed to fix it. You just need to keep you phone background pure white, put the brightness on a low setting, and leave it like that overnight. That’s how I fixed mine.