Instagram videos brightness increasing

some peopel talking about update that will fix this issue but there is no any official notification from apple. This issue is now faced by many iphone users. i am facing this problem exactly after 10th of may.

Iphone 11 pro here! I have the same issue too, thought there’s a problem with Instagram’s latest version. Some random reels suddenly increase in brightness, which is very frustrating cause I’m a dark mode person. I hope they can fix this issue asap!

Has this been solved yet?? This occurs for me throughout my phone randomly: watching a video on youtube, instagram, EVEN scrolling through my own photo library when a video plays!! I had thought it was a setting in the HDR but it's still occurring. Absolutely frustrating

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.

Yes, thank god not just me that experienced this issue. I always turned my brightness all the way down not without reason, most of the time I spent was indoor, this random instagram reels that bypassing my iPhone 12 on ios 15.5 maximum brightness is really hurting my eyes.

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.

I have an iPhone 13 pro max. It still does this bullshit. Why would you even put the option for stopping auto brightness when you let a bunch of companies you publicly support bring in the oppositional feature? Where is the profit?? Fudging ridiculous.

although the intensity def decreased this doesn’t solve the issue - plus it dims the whole screen so if it’s bright outside I’ll see less even w full brightness, but again my eyes hurt a little less lol

Hi Apple would you PLEASE FIX THIS ISSUE im sick of dealing with this ESPECIALLY when ive done everything i can to make my screen dim and on the lowest setting it makes everything more difficult to see and your settings dont provide any help to prevent or end this problem. The font changes color on my apps especially instagram making anything written hard to read because the font color goes grey and the videos go up to THE BRIGHTEST it can, this is enormously frustrating for photosensitive users and for it to be lasting months on end makes me want to switch to Android.

there have been updates since these reports. Resolve this immediately please

It’s this kind of thing that makes me never buy an iPhone (it’s a work phone). I have had it one day and keep finding issues like this.

This IS a bug. If you can’t display the dynamic range of content, compress it. Making the display brighter is ludicrous. The person who let something like this into production should be fired. I’m sure the developers felt pain implementing this “feature”.

Thank for adding some logic to this conversation.. people just want to complain about things.. complain about the screen not bright enough, then complain if it’s too bright! Smh. It’s called TECHNOLOGY. It’s a good thing that we have HDR support now! Never seen so many people complain about an added benefit to this expensive phones. Just be happy geez.

Ah yes - we love technology which isn’t compatible with other technology in such a way that it forces your phone screen to either drastically dim or brighten with no input or control from the user! 😍 I love the feeling of my eyes hurting from all the light❤️

regardless the issue is fixed for me idk which update did it but it stopped happening because omg wow it’s like this WAS an issue after all! Why else would the forced brightening of the screen disappear if it was a ~feature~ yes having a screen change in brightness faster than eyes can adjust is just such an amazing feature I totally didn’t get blinded😩

Has anyone found a solution to this? My iphone 13 is up to date but I am still having the issue. I get the idea of HDR but it's ridiculous that if I'm looking at my phone inside or at night it randomly hurts my eyes by increasing to max brightness with no ability to turn it down. It's happening on all platforms including instagram, facebook, even my photos app on my phone. I don't like the solution of "reducing white point" because that actually just decreases the brightness of the whole phone so it's really not an ideal solution. Can't believe this issue has been happening since May and in December it still hasn't been resolved.