The actual initial topic was the increasingly frequent question from colour grading colleagues, but also from production companies or post houses: How well suited are Apple's latest iPads for colour grading acceptances that have the new "reference mode"? Reason enough to deal with both topics at once, as they inevitably belong together if you want to be able to answer the question of suitability. I looked at two current Apple devices: the iPad Gen 6 and the latest MacBook Pro - both with the Liquid Retina XDR.
System settings for iPad Pro XDR: Display & Brightness - Activate Reference Mode and then open Fine-Tune Calibration. Measured values for D65-White-Point XY values and targets for Rec709 D65 = 0.3127, 0.3290 at not 100 nits, but slightly lower... Externals What makes the reality even more complex is the question of whether to use the internal/own displays or other computer monitors. You could avoid the problems as far as possible if you used reference monitors on a video IO ...
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