Ipad video brightness flare

The washed out colors does not occur on the red playback buttons of Netflix nor does it occur when I do the four finger minimization. I have also noticed the fading when watching full-screen videos in the native iPad video app. I don't think it is actually affecting the color of the video itself. Have you noticed the washed out colors on the actual video or just the playback controls on home screen when minimizing?

Having the same issue with iPad 2017. Enabling assistive touch helps but then you constantly have an annoying white circle somewhere on the screen. It’s puzzling how come Apple hasn’t addressed this bug.

This has been driving me crazy since I got my iPad Pro 9.7”. I filed a bug report with Apple, but they closed it stating it was functioning as intended. It’s most noticeable to me with light skin tones and clothing, which will gradually appear as if they were overexposed during filming. Tapping the screen to bring up the video interface overlay reverts the video to the correct exposure, but after the interface fades away, the localized overexposure happens again.

Since the iOS 11 update I’ve actually had trouble triggering the behavior with the new video player design. Apps like Netflix that use a custom player still suffer the issue, but apps like Trailers don’t seem to, but I haven’t tested extensively.

Another benefit of iOS 11 is that they added a control (or at least I never noticed it before) to turn the “Idle Opacity” of the assistive touch button down as low as 15%. It still does the trick in getting rid of the localized overexposure, but is FAR less intrusive visually when watching content. I can now tuck it in a corner and forget about it.

Hello,

I noticed this bug as well on the same iPad generation. I do watch a lot of videos using the default app. Even on videos bought or rented on iTunes you can see the brightness slightly change, especially when the video goes from light scenery to darker tones, and this is not an eye-trick.

I bought a fourth generation iPad in November. I started noticing this problem a couple weeks after receiving it. It seems to occur when watching videos from iTunes on the native video app, on the Amazon Instant Video app and on HBO Go. I have not noticed much of a problem when using Netflix, which is very odd. I also notice that the color of the playback controls start to fade in color when you tap the screen during playback. The blue become a very light blue, like it is washed out. And if you do a pinch to close the player during playback then the home screen has that same washed out look for a couple seconds. This is VERY ANNOYING. I have purchased the iPad 2, the iPad 3 and now the iPad 4 and all have had some sort of issue. I had the 2nd and 3rd generations replaced and now I'm considering trying to get this one replaced as well.

The 4th gen iPad is the only one that has had this particular problem, I had seperate issues with the other iPads. I have yet to get a replacement for the 4th gen, for the most part video looks great and it doesn't seem to happen on Netflix which leads me to believe that it could be a software problem. Either way it is annoying and I wish Apple would address it. Do you notice on all video playback, with all video players?

I'm having this problem on my Air. Just wandered if anyone here had found a solution ?

I'm experiencing this issue also on my brand new ipad air 😟

I eventually took mine into an Apple Store and they gave me a new one but it had the same issue so I'm hoping it will be fixed with the next update.

The only fix I found was to have assistive touch switched on.

I have the same problem on my air and the new mini. I don't know how they didn't see this in production of these products it's like a feature they added to automatically turn the brightness up between dark scenes but a lot of scenes are darker and it constantly does it to where your screens brightness just won't stop flickering up and down. If u watch a really bright scene there is no problems but the problem is a lot of shows and movies have scenes that are darker and the screens brightness just ends up flickering extremely bad. This normally seems to happen just on my stock video app with all my hd movies and shows I purchase through iTunes. Oh and it's not the auto brightness button, it doesn't matter if that's on or off. It seems like it's just with the retina screens on iPads because my older iPads never had this problem, plus I have a iPhone 5 linked up to the same account and can watch the same movies without issue on the 5s retina screen. I have been to the apple store of course they have never heard of this problem and it's hard for them to notice with all the bright lights in the store so one of the girls who worked there actually crawled under the desk so she could see the brightness flicker and she agreed that it was terrible, they even gave me a knew ipad and it's the same thing. Apple this is terrible please fix it. I wish I knew who to contact about this.

I've had the same issue. When watching video on the retina iPad mini, whether in Safari or in the native Videos app or in a third party app, the screen brightness fluctuates depending on the brightness of scene it he video...it's most observable when you look at the black space / black bars above and below the video....when the video scene is a bright scene, the black bars suddenly become brighter...if it's a very dark scene, the black bars fade to a very dark black. The brightness fluctuation can be extremely annoying when scenes change in tv shows and movies, especially rapid changes in scenes.

Also, if the scene is bright and I exit the video app, as soon as it returns to the homescreen, all of the colors are completely washed out and the true color / brightness gradually returns.

I hope more people report this, as I've certainly seen enough people mentioning this issue on discussion boards all over the internet. I know I have reported it. I've also returned the retina iPad mini five or six times because of this issue as well as a different glitch regarding screen getting stuck in a particular orientation, and also getting stuck in the closing animation when an app minimizes. So far, all of these issues persist with each new retina iPad mini.

VERY disappointed.

I did work for Apple as a tech support advisor. These are issues that I never personally experienced prior to iPad 4. If I had never purchased so much content through iTunes / the App Store, I would at this point simply wash my hands with Apple mobile products and never buy another one. Unfortunately, I'm kind of locked in at this moment because of all of the Apple exclusive content I have purchased over the years.

This seems to be the only solution. Thank You.

Can confirm, turning assistive touch on stops the screen from fluctuating brightness. Nothing else has helped but that and while annoying to have on,turning the shortcut key helps turn assistive touch easily so when watching videos I simply use the shortcut and turn it on then when the video ends do the same shortcut to turn it off. This way I don't have to go into settings to swap it in and off. Wish Apple would fix this though as its been an issue for two years now.