Lightroom export seems desaturated

Ok, I'm stumped.
Lately, I've noticed that the pictures I'm exporting out of Lightroom (5.4) seem very desaturated. This problem has been going on since before I upgraded to 5.4
Now my first thought is obviously color management, but here is the weird part: pictures that I've previously exported now look less saturated now too... In other words, a picture that looked great exported a few months ago looks drab after a new export (no new adjustments) when viewed side by side on my iPad. What could've changed?
Additionally, I can globally adjust both vibrance and/or saturation to ridiculous levels on a file and the exported files still look duller on export than I would expect.
Any ideas?

here is a sample. These pictures were from the same file (no adjustments) - just exported several weeks apart.
Another perplexing clue. I attached individual versions of the above two files to this discussion board and posted - they looked identical so I deleted that post thinking I was loosing my mind. I send both files to myself in an email then looked at them on my iPad and iphone. I could clearly see a difference. So I used a collage app to put the pictures side by side and sent them back in an email to my Macbook Pro....I can still see a difference now.
Someone smarter than me can hopefully chime in, but can the problem be with how IOS is rendering recently exported pictures from Lightroom. Again, pictures exported more than a month look the same from computer to device (I have 2 pads/2 iPhones in my home). Yet, the same file exported today looks dull on all ios devices. I should mention that picture sites/apps like 500px are G+ still look vibrant and normal in all ios devices so I know they are able to render color.
I have tried resetting my export presets and develop defaults - neither made a difference.
One last thing, I have Lightroom mobile, and images in synched catalogs look identical on either my ipad to MBP screen. But again, once exported and viewed from any ios device, the colors become dull.
Thank you for any suggestions.

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