While scrolling through photos or reel videos on Instagram, your screen brightness suddenly increases. This is not due to any glitch but due to the HDR mode present in Instagram, which suddenly increases the brightness when an HDR video appears in the feed.
HDR mode significantly increases screen brightness to make a scene appear brighter and more vibrant, which can hurt your eyes at night. If you are an Android user then currently you will not be able to disable HDR mode. However, iPhone users can turn off this feature.
Instagram supports HDR video playback in Apple iPhone 12 and newer models. In these models you can shoot HDR video in Dolby Vision format and upload it to Instagram. All these iPhone models have OLED screens, which support Instagram HDR video playback mode.
How to Turn Off HDR Video Playback Mode in Instagram
Step 1- To turn off HDR video playback mode, first of all you have to open your profile on Instagram. Here click on the hamburger menu visible on the top right.
Step 2 – After this you have to scroll down and select ‘Media Quality’ in the ‘Your App and Media’ section.
Step 3 – Here you will find three options, the last option will provide a toggle to enable and disable HDR video playback.
HDR video playback support available in these iPhone models
iPhone 12 series
iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max
iPhone 13 series
iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max
iPhone 14 series
iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max
iPhone 15 series
iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max
