Pixel 7a display burn in?

scrubbington

Bought my Pixel 7a back in November 2023. For the first time, today I figured out some sort of display burn in. Sunny spring day, display brightness was at max (I guess), and opening some apps with white background, I saw the contures of the charging battery icon and some sort of corona glowing around the front camera.
In day to day usage I never recognized it before, but, you know, once seen... :-D
Aren't there any countermeasures against display burn in? So, is it probably a software issue or moreover hardware bound?
What I know is that I had this prob once using another phone and LineageOS. Investigating that, I've read something that this could happen when you exchange or repair your display because PWM settings, max screen brightness, color corrections are stored somewhere and represent your display life and degradation/calibration.

SovereignCopper

The charging battery might indeed be burn in, but just to be sure it's not a false alarm: in bright sunlight, you'll see the contours of the ambient/proximity sensor and the fingerpint reader underneath:

https://img.adminforge.de/P3G8LT8O/dAuuAlVD.jpg

scrubbington

SovereignCopper Indeed, this is it! Thank you all, mystery solved.

icarious

I am using a Google Pixel 6 since March 2022 and don't have a single burn in issue. In my experience the best way to avoid any burn in would be to keep the brightness around 30-50% for most of the time. Obviously you can bump it up here and there when its needed. I don't use any wallpaper and use the default black background.

Additionally, one extra step (though this is not needed, I hardly do it) which you might consider would be to occasionally change the order of the icons on your homescreen every now and then. Follow these steps for any Future Pixel phone and you would definitely end up avoiding any burn in issues. OLED/ AMOLED screens are really great. But they do need some extra care and caution over traditional LED/ VA/ IPS screens.