S24 Display Quality & AOD Missing Options

[Locoblade]

Hi All

I've just got my S24+ today to upgrade my trusty but ageing S10+ having not strayed from Samsung for almost 10 years. Naturally I was hoping it would be an upgrade in all departments but although on the whole it is, there's several annoying and unexpected downgrades that are making me seriously question whether it's actually worth spending quite a bit of money to change.

Firstly, the screen although pin sharp is really washed out. Even in vivid mode the colours are dull and the blacks are significantly more grey than the S10 screen, and even look washed out when put alongside my wife's budget spec A52! I've played around with brightness and colour tone etc but I can't dial it out, and my cousin who's got an S24 Ultra said exactly the same when comparing it against the S22 it's replacing.

Then there's some bizarre features missing from OneUI 6.1, the ones I've noticed so far are specifically in the Always On Display settings.  I use AOD to display as a bedside clock,  with my S10 and also in OneUI 6.0 / Android 14 on the A52 you can rotate the AOD to landscape orientation and control the brightness, you could even do the latter from the AOD lock screen by tapping twice on the clock to access the brightness slider. In OneUI 6.1 unless I'm missing something it seems all that functionality is missing, the brightness of the AOD is linked to the main screen brightness setting which is far too bright for overnight use, and you can't set it to landscape mode which I'd prefer when on it's horizontal night stand next to the bed. Why this functionality would be omitted I have no idea, but it's really annoying! Please someone enlighten me to some hidden menu somewhere that fixes all these issues?! 🙂

[user3GeT8XIJU8]

I can confirm they sadly do not. I have an S21 side by side an S24 and all images/videos look washed out. Changing the display settings to natural on both makes the color palettes similar, but I can still see more detail in the photos on the S21. Videos are night and day.

[usergnRQN7Q0t5]

I can confirm that photos in the gallery look more vivid. I used one as a wallpaper and in the gallery it's more vivid and colorful but when I go to the home screen it's a lot duller.

[Seana917]

Yes my photos look great. Home screen washed out.

[Ace2311]

Not mine, everything looks terrible on this s24 ultra device next to my s22 ultra and a Fold 5. The photos look way different on this s24 than either of the other two. And the home screen is 1,000 times worse.

[ravitejagupta]

Same thing. Truly disappointed in 24 Ultra. I guess will have to return and stick to 22 ultra

[Summest]

My newly arrived S24 Vanilla looks fine to me.  I guess it is a keeper.

[Gareee]

Blacks are black...BUT I think dark mode goes more Grey than black to decrease the contrast to be easier on the eyes. I'm looking at the member app right now and can see solid black borders around it.

[userzkvMgn0zAd]

Did they also remove clock style from AOD ? I COULD NOT FIND THAT ANYWHERE

[samsam221]

Exact same issue, comparing my S22+ with my S24+ and the colours very noticeably more dull. By simply looking at the difference in colour blue that Samsung uses in its menu's for on/off switches you can see a striking difference. Very disappointed. 

[Zimbo]

Yes it's absolute weekly awful! I was I excited to get this phone and now I just wish I'd never got it.