Instagram videos brightness increasing

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?

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.

Also have this issue. I just noticed it happens on Reddit as well. Very annoying and painful on my light sensitive eyes. I’ll have my brightness on low and when watching the videos, it’s all in my face and hard to focus. Doesn’t help that Instagram is slowly becoming a video only app.

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.

This needs to be fixed asap. Not having control over a basic function of the phone is lazy and it’s super suspicious that it only happens on a content based platform. The number of videos this happens on for me personally has increased in the last few weeks.

Same. The HDR/Dolby Vision is very frustrating because I don't want the lighting of my phone change when I look at videos. I have the ability to turn it off for the videos I take, but not the ones I see on Instagram. I hope they change it, cause it's annoying.

Guys it’s not anything big or malfunction it’s just that Instagram just added Dolby vision HDR video support for reels for some users probably that’s why you see increased dynamic range in display for some reels and all other stuff and UI elements colours gets washed out cuz they are in SDR against an HDR video. It was a simple logic.

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!

Thanks for the update, John,

If the issue is exclusive to specific features of the Instagram app, we would next suggest using the guidance in If an app on your iPhone or iPad stops responding, closes unexpectedly, or won’t open - Apple Support to troubleshoot the app itself. While the title of the article doesn't match your issue exactly, the steps included still address a variety of unexpected behaviors an app might exhibit.

If the issue remains unresolved after that, please reach out to Instagram for further assistance: How to contact an app developer - Apple Support .

And if you need additional help once you've done that, you can get in touch with Apple Support directly. You can do that here: Get Support.

Have a wonderful day.

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%

Mine does this mainly in the photos app itself. So if I swipe from a photo to a video the brightness goes up loads and its a little intense on the old eyes in the evening. Does anyone else notice this in the app itself?

Glad I’m not the only one. Been happening to me for a bit, I’ve noticed it on sometimes Instagram, rarely Twitter, and mostly on Reddit. It’s really annoying because it makes it hard to see other things on screen.

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

Hi,

this has been happening to me for like a couple months now on Instagram but it just happened to my on Facebook as well. I double checked the auto brightness in the settings app and it’s off. I’m getting really tired of this happening. Has anyone heard an update on this?

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.