Instagram videos brightness increasing

Apparently it has to do w HDR - but I’m assuming it’s more of an unintended side effect of the feature - and so I believe still should be fixed because it’s blinding late at night

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.