[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] flarbear:
I think this falls into the grey area of human psychology failing our decision making processes.

I would have said that I don't have burn-in and I use my phone constantly, but then again...

I pulled the notification bar on my S6 edge down (the notification bar is normally black background, but when you pull it down the top has a blue background) and didn't see anything (at first). I then took my glasses off and stared really close at the screen and could detect a very faint line where the notification bar would normally be where the section was slightly brighter than the area below it.

OK, um, technically I do have some burn-in there. But, I'm very picky about displays too and I've never noticed it before because I've never bothered to go looking for it. Now that I have, I can see it when I look for where it is, but I don't generally do that and it is only even perceivable on screens with a solid color background. Instead I use my phone. And, I use my phone to enjoy the amazing screen qualities that it has over its entire surface. It even continues to have those amazing screen qualities in the area that has a slightly different brightness gradient even though you can stare at it and see the delineation of where the pixels have different aging. Just stop staring.

The screens are amazing. Just use the phone and appreciate that fact and stop looking for issues just because someone mentioned that they exist. It's not that distracting at all if you have any control over your OCD.

This is absolutely a case of "what you don't know will probably never hurt you" and combined with a little bit of "and even if you know, just relax and smell the pretty AMOLED colored roses and life will be much more pleasant and you'll forget that the technology still has a few more percentage points of progress before it is fully problem free".

Or, choose an obviously inferior display that will not produce images nearly as nice for the 100% of the time you use it just for fear of something you may never notice except potentially in a few instances.

The same issue happens when people choose between plasma and LCD TVs. The fear of burn-in on Plasma often gets a consumer to choose the LCD set that has a picture that they clearly do not prefer and they choose constant mediocrity over occasional imperfections on a superior image.

Your call. ;)

Another suggestion - download a pixel defect program and run it full-screen with a white screen for a few minutes every night (even better if you find one that can cycle through whites/grays/RGB screens) and the pixels should normalize in terms of aging. Really the issue is inconsistent pixel aging and the initial aging is the most noticeable so all you really need to do is ensure that all pixels have aged beyond a relatively small threshold of "newness" and the slope or ratio of aging will be below what the human visual system is capable of perceiving. The same technique is frequently used to gently age a brand new plasma screen by displaying a sequence of full-screen mono-color frames to minimize the perception of burn-in, and those screens have a much higher potential for uneven aging.