If you’ve made it this far, it’s probably because you have a big problem with your device’s screen. You weren’t happy with the hue of the colors shown on the screen and tried tweaking some settings to change them. Unfortunately, however, you immediately noticed that the result obtained is far from what you imagined.
Now the colors you see on the screen of your PC, smartphone or tablet seem to be faded or too saturated and you would like to understand how to restore the colors of the screen , so as to undo all the changes you have made. Am I right, right? Don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place at the right time!
In the course of the next paragraphs, in fact, I will show you how to restore the colors of the screen of your PC, or your smartphone or your tablet, in order to cancel all the changes you made. Take five minutes, make yourself comfortable and continue reading, you’ll see, it will be worth it.
Index
- How to restore PC screen colors
- Windows
- macOS
- How to restore screen colors on smartphones and tablets
- How to restore screen colors: Android
- How to restore screen colors: iPhone
How to restore PC screen colors
You recently bought a new monitor for your PC, but weren’t very happy with the color calibration. For this reason you have tried to modify it, trying to get the best result for your tastes. Unfortunately, however, things did not go as you expected and now you would like to understand how to restore the colors of the PC screen .
Don’t worry, these things happen, but fortunately it is not an unsolvable problem. Over the next few paragraphs, I’ll show you how to restore PC screen colors on both Windows and macOS. What do you say, let’s get started?
Windows
Your PC monitor has colors that don’t fully satisfy you, so you decided to try changing them manually, hoping to get brighter colors. Result? Now the colors are even worse than before and you don’t know how to restore the Windows PC screen colors . Don’t worry, I’ll help you.
Regardless of the version of the operating system you use, you can use some tools included “as standard” to be able to restore the original colors of the screen, depending on the hardware you have.
The first option is to use the Windows Color Management feature , which can be used on any PC. To get to this function click on the Start button located at the bottom (recognizable by the flag icon), type on the keyboard Color Management and click on the only item that will be suggested to you.
The Windows Color Management screen will open , from which you can reset your monitor’s default profile. First of all select the screen whose colors you want to change (if you have more than one connected) from the Devices tab at the top: to make sure it is the right monitor, click on the Same monitor button and the number corresponding to yours will appear. choice.
Now that you have identified the monitor whose colors you want to restore, click on the Advanced tab at the top, select the Default item for all the options that are listed and click on the Close button to confirm the operation. Now restart your PC and you will see that after restarting the monitor colors will be back to normal.
Alternatively, you can use the color management system built into the software dedicated to your video card . For example, if you have an Intel video card , you can use the Intel Graphics Command Center software . Once opened via the appropriate shortcut that you find on the desktop, in the Start menu and / or in the right-click menu on the desktop, click on the Screen item from the left side menu, then go to the Color tab and click on the Restore original colors button . Again I advise you to restart your PC.
The same operation is valid even if your PC has an NVIDIA or AMD video card , but in this case you will have to use the dedicated software of the two companies. To learn more, I refer you to my tutorial on how to install video card drivers .
macOS
You recently chose to buy a monitor to use with your Mac , so that you have a much larger screen to work on. The colors of the new monitor, however, do not satisfy you, so you have decided to go and change them manually, but you have done nothing but further worsen the situation.
How do you say? Would you like to understand how to restore PC screen colors on macOS ? Don’t worry, the process is much simpler than you think. If you don’t know, every monitor, be it external or the one integrated into the MacBook, comes from the factory with a pre-set color profile, which can be restored at any time.
Usually all external monitors have a menu accessible from the monitor from which you can perform this operation, which however is often really cumbersome. For this reason it is much more convenient to act directly from the macOS settings. To do this, open the System Preferences application , accessible from the bar at the top, by clicking on the bitten apple icon and then clicking on the System Preferences item from the pop-up menu.
Once in the System Preferences, click on Screens (or Monitors ), recognizable by a screen icon. In the Color Profile section you will see listed all the profiles compatible with your monitor, as well as the one you have previously created and which is currently set.
To restore the default one, simply click on the first profile in the list, which is always the default one. In the case of a MacBook, for example, it is usually color LCD .
In seconds you will see that the colors of the monitor will change and return to their original state again, just like when you turned on the monitor for the first time. If you have a MacBook equipped with True Tone technology , which adjusts the screen tone with the ambient one, and / or you have activated the Night Shift function , which instead makes the screen colors warmer in the evening hours, you can also think of deactivating them by pressing on the specific items.
How to restore screen colors on smartphones and tablets
You have recently bought a new smartphone or tablet and, not happy with the screen color calibration, you have decided to act manually and change them. Needless to say, the result was somewhat disastrous, so you decided to restore the original color calibration.
Now, however, a problem arises: you have absolutely no idea how to restore screen colors on smartphones and tablets . Quiet, that’s what I’m here for. Over the next few paragraphs I will show you how to act whether you have an Android device or an iPhone or iPad.
How to restore screen colors: Android
The screen of your Android device does not convince you and you have tried to vary the color calibration in search of the perfect result. Unfortunately, you got the opposite result, so now you want to figure out how to restore screen colors . Don’t worry, in reality it is a very simple procedure, but which unfortunately varies depending on the device in your possession. For this reason, below, I will bring you some examples, in order to have more references at your disposal.
If you have a device from the Google Pixel range or a device with stock Android, just open the Settings app , recognizable by the icon of a gear, tap on the Display item and then on the Colors item . In this screen you will notice that there are three items available: Natural , Enhanced , Intense (the names may change), which are the profiles set by default by the manufacturer, from which you can choose. below, however, you will find a menu that allows you to vary the various colors, acting on the three main colors: red , green and blue. By modifying these values you have changed the color calibration of the display, but by selecting one of the three items above, the changes you made will disappear completely and the screen will return as before.
If you have a HUAWEI smartphone , however, you will need to follow slightly different steps to restore the screen colors. Open the Settings app , recognizable by the gear icon , and tap the Display and brightness item . Now, among the different items available to you, tap on Color and temperature mode . In this screen you will notice the presence of some pre-set profiles, as well as a special tool that allows you to change the color temperature manually. To restore the screen colors, you simply have to tap on the Default item and you will see that the colors will return to their original state.
If you have a Samsung smartphone , open the Settings app instead and tap the Screen and Screen mode items . In this screen you can change the colors of the screen of your device, but if you want to restore the original colors, all you have to do is choose between one of the profiles pre-set by the company, in my case the choice is between Vivid and Natural (i names may change). After selecting one of these, you will immediately see that the colors will return to normal, like when you turned on your smartphone for the first time.
Note: if the automatic adaptation modes of the display to the ambient light are active and / or a warmer color temperature has been set for the evening hours, you may want to deactivate these functions as well, which you can find with a simple search in the Settings menu; for example for HUAWEI devices you can refer to my tutorial dedicated to night mode .
How to restore screen colors: iPhone
You are in a somewhat particular situation, you have somehow changed the colors of your iPhone screen and you are not happy with the result. The problem is that you don’t remember the steps you followed, so you don’t know how to restore screen colors to your iPhone .
By default, Apple does not allow changing the screen color tone on iPhone and iPad, in fact, if you open the Settings app and tap the Screen and brightness item you will not find any option that allows you to do so. The only option you have is to activate True Tone mode or not , which automatically adjusts the way colors are displayed on the iPhone screen to different lighting conditions. If you notice that this option is active, try setting the activation lever next to this item to OFF and check if the colors are back to “normal”.
From the same screen you can also change the settings of Night Shift , which makes the screen colors warmer in the evening hours, so as to avoid damage from blue light. If nothing has changed in this way either, you need to act deeper.
You have probably moved something in the accessibility settings , changing some “special” parameters. Quiet, however, everything can be solved: open the Settings app again , tap on the Accessibility item and then on Screen and text size .
This verification screen that are not active the following items, which may incorrectly change the screen colors: Sharpen , Differentiate without color , Invert smart , classic reversal , color filters and White Point . If one, or more than one, of these items is active, deactivate it by setting the activation lever next to each item to OFF . As soon as you have deactivated them, you will immediately notice that the screen colors have returned to normal.
How do you say? Do you have the same problem on your iPad and don’t know how to fix it? Don’t worry, the procedure I just showed you is also valid on iPad, so you can follow it without any fear.
