Night mode time lapse not functioning

So, with help from a person who uploaded timelapse video on Youtube, I was able to figure out how this night mode works and it is super counterintuitive. Starting with the night mode icon... it is not present in time lapse mode. Phone automatically switches to night mode but it is only a fraction of real night mode. You cannot modify the exposure time and in my case it is always below 1 seconds. I see that screen starts "lagging" and it refreshes twice a second so i guess the exposure is set to around 500ms, so results are not much better from standard photos with night mode disabled.

At this point I cannot always force my phone to enter night mode in time lapse. I tried several times in same conditions and only sometimes I was able to detect the change.

I'm wondering why they couldn't just make timelapse night mode the same as in standard photos. It would be really nice to manually set the exposure time and for example have single photo every 5 or 10 seconds.

i asked genius before i put my question in forum that time-lapse mode supposed to be has night-mode icon appears in top-left corner as photo mode has.

i think this is still issue that apple has to fix it.

I have the same problem on my iPhone 12.

Could someone please confirm if you can see night mode icon in time lapse mode?

Same iPhone 12 pro.

Hi breital, So do you feel it’s an issue that apple has to fix?