Noticed it today on a 7-month-old laptop. Annoying.
What baffles me is that I don’t recognise anything I use as having the same UI as the faint lines that have appeared on my screen. An area of pinstripe on the left, then columns of buttons on the right. No website or app I use looks like that.
Plus, my screen is configured to turn off after 3 minutes. It’s never left on 
I’ll send it off for Samsung to take a look at it anyway. It almost looks like some BIOS diagnostic type screen.
My iPhone also has OLED burn in, which sucks because I thought Apple once claimed they “solved” burn in by using algorithms to have the pixels constantly shifting to avoid it.
I’m lazy, but I do need to engage my Apple Care and get it fixed before it’s too late (my iPhone 15 Pro Max) as it annoys me periodically.
It’s sad, but I know the always on display is what caused my issue. I use the screen black with green text.
It’s weird. My last laptop, another Samsung, was OLED too, used that the same way for three years and had no issues. 
they swap it out, 'cos it’s annoying. Especially editing photos.
Samsung has gone off to be looked at. Now forced to use our MBA for a few days 
I’m gonna take your momentum and use that to propel me to get my iPhone fixed this weekend.
Good luck with your MBA; hopefully it’s Apple Silicon at least
Yeah, it’s an M1. It’s fine, I just prefer MS!
I’ve had burn-in on most screens over the years. One of the worst was a 22" LG wide screen monitor from the early 2000s, I used to play an MMORPG and the inventory windows burned into the screen and were visible when using the desktop and productivity apps. It would fade away again after a few days. In the end, I ended up putting an old 17" LCD on the computer and using it exclusively for the inventory windows when playing.
My first iMac, a first generation Intel 24" suffered as well, with the menu bar and Apple logo burned in (or long persistence of several days of non-use before they faded away again.
Although I can’t say I’ve noticed it on my current MacBook Pro or the 42" LG 4K display I use.
I’ve seen it at work on displays we used to show info in the buildings, but never on laptops before.
So it can go away after a few days? I’ve sent it off now anyway, wonder what they’ll say.
I finally made the appointment. Tomorrow I’m going to the Apple Store. Hopefully I can just walk out of the store with a new display on my current phone
Aaaaand 3 hours later: my phone was repaired for free!
Did they swap out the display panel?
Yeah. My phone had the same nicks & little scratches as it did prior to repair. But brand new front pane.
I didn’t get a chance to ask Apple but I wonder if having my phone repaired impacted the water resistance rating. I shower with my iPhone(for music!) pretty often, I was impressed when the water detector in the SIM tray wasn’t tripped. I don’t go out of my way to submerge the phone, obviously. But my phone definitely has been under water before. I once took it swimming with me to take some pictures of myself under water
I’m a bit worried maybe when they opened the phone (and presumably changed the adhesive) it impacted the IP68 rating. I suppose I’ll find out because I have 0 intention of changing my behavior
Looking hopeful for me, too. Just got this update…
‘A Samsung Expert has inspected your device and ordered the parts needed to complete your repair.’
I’ve found Samsung pretty good with support. No stores near me, but you raise a ticket, a courier turns up next day, they start work on it next business day and it’s back with you the following day, unless there is a wait for parts.
Laptop back, all fixed.
It was a faulty graphics card, according to the paperwork. It’s integrated, though, as it’s a Snapdragon PC
Anyway, the problem has gone away. Nice to have the OLED screen back, hard to go back to LCD on the Mac (although battery life is worse because of it).
I had a repeat of this ‘screen burn’ issue 6 months later. Good service from Samsung again, took it away, fixed and returned 2 days later.
Wondering now if there’s an issue with Snapdragon X/Adreno GPUs. Had the same on the report, ‘graphics card fault, replaced’.
Screen burn-in has always been a thing with LCD and OLED. When the first OLED smartphones arrived, the manufacturers built in “jitter” to the icon and widget positioning, so they would regularly move a bit.
I had several LCD, from LG, Hitachi and an iMac that all suffered from persistence or burn-in. I used to play an MMORPG and after a long session, it would take several hours (sometimes as long as 8 hours or more) for the image of the inventory window and the buff toolbars to fade away again. On the iMac, the menubar was “burnt in” (2007 iMac 24”). Because it was displayed all the time, the bar, the Apple menu and Datei und Bearbeiten were burnt in, the others changed enough, moving to different applications with different menus, that they didn’t burn in.
I haven’t noticed it in recent years, luckily, but with PCs moving to OLED, we might see this come back, again, until Microsoft starts some sort of “jitter” to move things around a pixel or 2 on a regular basis.
I’m not convinced it is actually screen burn. Twice now they’ve said it was a graphics hardware fault, ordered parts and installed. Which I assume is the main motherboard, as it’s SOC.
Also, the pattern on the screen doesn’t match any software I use. Like a faint pinstripe on certain areas this time.
OK, that is not burn-in, that is definitely a faulty graphic controller.
It should be ok…They are very careful to keep the water resistance rating intact when doing repairs at the Elk Grove Apple Repair Center. (I used to run the place!!) and I presume the Apple Stores use the same procedures…but can’t guarantee that
Yeah it was perfectly fine! I’m already using a different iPhone now though, haha