Instagram videos brightness increasing

Well HDR works like that. It’s not the brightness getting inc technically increased dynamic range needs it or in basic words HDR mean “Brighter” whites deep blacks with vibrant colours it’s not just increasing brightness but if you still don’t need it to happen use low power mode while scrolling reels or just turn on “Reduce white point” setting and make 1% tint filter and leave it on permanently with both of the things HDR videos will show up in SDR.

This has been driving me crazy! I ended up turning on “Reduce White Point” at 50% under accessibility, display and text size and it stopped the auto brightness issue on the instagram videos. I haven’t noticed the issue elsewhere but for now that stopped it for me.

Hope that helps

Kevin

I think I found a fix.

All I did was turn on Reduce White Point.

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Reduce White Point.

Turning that on fixed the auto increase of brightness for me.

This worked for me—search HDR in settings and toggle ”View Full HDR” off. iPhone 13 mini, iOS 16.1:

I ended up turning on “Reduce White Point” at 50% under accessibility, display and text size, see if that works for you. I tagged a video on instagram and played with this setting and checked same video. Haven’t had a problem since.

I found a solution for IG random bright reels was:

settings>accessibility>Display&text size>

switch reduce white point on and set at lowest setting of 25%

Hi there John,

For the issue you described, this sounds like either True Tone, Night Shift, or both are enabled.

For more details about these features, check out the section 'Adjust brightness and color temperature in Settings' here: Adjust the brightness and color temperature on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Cheers!

Hello

That’s normal and doesn’t need and/or get a update.

Instagram has added HDR support for reels , so some people upload videos on HDR.

That’s why when you watch videos on phone gallery it brightens to max too.

HDR is not the normal SDR, has a wider color range and I’m assuming needs brightness at full so you can really see the full colors of HDR.

I actually read that this is not particularly a bug or an issue. The brightness of a content increases when it’s HDR because it needs to compensate how dark the image/video is. It‘s not bound to any platform (I have seen it on reddit as well) and it does not depend on your brightness settings. It‘s even visible when you have your screen on the brightest setting because your screen can actually get brighter than that.

It’s because of HDR quality. If you want to check, find a video on YouTube that does this, tap the gear icon and next to “Quality” you’ll find the resolution and the “(HDR)” next to it. It’s the same when you watch videos made in cinematic mode, which has HDR turned on automatically.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find a toggle to disable the automatic peak of brightness when viewing HDR videos, hopefully it will be added with a future software update.

Ah yes, this is what I was getting at, the way the brightness works for HDR content is this ;

When you are viewing normal content it will show a standard brightness, but when viewing HDR content it will go to peak brightness (nits).

I agree tho, I would highly recommend submitting feedback under the iOS section here apple.com/feedback. This is what the iOS engineers use to source tending issues.

Thank you!!! Just tried Low power mode and it works. This is a good enough fix for me until resolved properly.

I found a weird solution to it. Turn on low power mode, it disables HDR. Unfortunately have to do that now every time I watch reels or youtube but works for me. Hope that helps

I have contacted with Apple support and told them about the issue. They have told me that not only me who have this issue and their engineers are working on it, and soon a software update will be available to solve it.

the issue is not exclusive to Instagram, It does this on some YouTube videos as well. Apple needs to make it so that app developers don’t have the option to trigger this because there is often no in-app setting to turn it off. It is a pointless feature regardless why would we want the video to suddenly be maximum brightness when our screens are turned all the way down for a reason?