Brightness increases for some instagram reels automatically for iPhone 13 (ios 15.4.1). It’s like how brightness increases while we turn into cinematic mode and also watching videos in gallery. My auto brightness is turned off. It’s same even it’s turned on.
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iPhone 13, iOS 15
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.
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?
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.
If you enable Low Power Mode it removes the HDR. You could try to create automation to enable LPM at night.
Hello!
Maybe I found a way:
Turn on Low Battery Mode and it won’t be super bright that way, it helped me.
Unfortunately I can’t find (maybe because there isn’t) anything else to turn it off.
-Tommy
I'm pretty sure this is just HDR because it does the same thing with HDR videos in your camera roll. IG and YouTube probably added support for HDR on Apple devices.
Settings -> Accessibility -> Display & text size -> Switch reduce white point ON and set at lowest setting of 25%.
simple, battery setting, just turn on your low battery power mode
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.
I’ve noticed this for a while and I’m glad I found this thread and now know that I’m not the only person noticing this. I’ve read elsewhere in this thread that it may be an HDR feature in iOS.
Whatever it is, it needs to be nixed ASAP. I’ll be lying in bed scrolling on 5-10% brightness, then all of a sudden a bright, flashy instagram video will decide to illuminate to 100% brightness. Immediately have to scroll to make it go away or close apps. It’s way too powerful, causes painful strain to the eyes. Please remove ASAP
This is also happening in the Ipad pro 5th gen. It happens on twitter, instagram, reddit, etc. It`s really annoying and surely a IOS bug (and not app related as some people said).
For me all these settings are disabled. Even then I am facing this problem. Seems like a bug.
I also have the same issue, it only happened to some random reels, and it’s kinda disturbing. Mine’s 11 pro max by the way
Happens only for few videos. Sent the same video to my other iPhone. Even on that same issue.
I’m aware of what it is, I figured it out when YouTube kept doing it. The problem is that it should not happen against the users will. If I want my phone to be bright, I will make it bright.
The “reduce white point” tip worked for me, thanx so much. I hate the videos that go bright enough to burn into your soul!
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