White Screen
A pure white full-screen display for cleaning, testing, lighting, and more.
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What is a White Screen?
A white screen is simply a display showing pure white (#FFFFFF) across your entire monitor. While it sounds basic, it's incredibly useful for a variety of practical purposes — from testing your display for defects to providing soft lighting for video calls.
Our white screen tool works on any device — desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone — and goes truly fullscreen with no browser bars or distractions.
What Can You Use It For?
🧹 Screen Cleaning
A white background makes dust, fingerprints, and smudges clearly visible, so you can clean your screen thoroughly without missing spots.
🔍 Dead Pixel Detection
Dead pixels appear as tiny black dots on a white screen. Use this to check new monitors before the return window closes.
💡 Photography Lighting
Your screen becomes a large, diffused light source. Perfect for product photography, portraits, or as fill light in low-light conditions.
🎥 Video Call Lighting
Place a white screen on a secondary monitor facing you to eliminate shadows and improve your appearance on Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet.
✏️ Digital Lightbox
Artists and animators place paper on their screen to trace drawings. A tablet with a white screen becomes an instant lightbox.
📖 Reading Light
Need a soft light to read by? A dimmed white screen provides gentle, even illumination without harsh shadows.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is a white screen bad for my monitor?
For LCD monitors, no — white screens are perfectly safe for extended use. For OLED screens, prolonged static images can cause temporary image retention, so it's best to limit continuous use to under an hour.
Does a white screen use more power?
On LCD screens, white uses slightly more power than darker colours because the backlight works harder. On OLED screens, white uses significantly more power since every pixel is lit. For occasional use, the difference is negligible.
Why does my white screen look yellowish or bluish?
This is due to your monitor's colour temperature setting. A "warm" setting (3000-4000K) appears yellowish, while a "cool" setting (7000K+) appears bluish. True white is around 6500K (daylight). Check your monitor's settings to adjust.
Can I download a white screen image?
Yes! Visit our main tools page where you can download white screen images in any resolution from 480p to 8K.
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