WWW.THEVERGE.COM
Samsung will let you disable annoyingly-bright HDR content across all apps
Loading up HDR photos and videos can be a great way of showcasing the fancy display on your new phone and testing just how bright it can get. But sometimes, especially at night, you might not want your screen to crank into overdrive with blinding highlights just because someone posted a random video to Instagram in HDR. (Devices are increasingly set to capture video with the increased dynamic range by default, so lets not blame each other.)With its forthcoming One UI 7 update thats currently in beta, Samsung is giving Galaxy phone owners a system-wide kill switch for disabling HDR content. As covered by 9to5Google, theres a new Super HDR toggle in the settings menu. The description automatically adjust the display to show the full range of colors and contrast in pictures taken with Galaxy devices is a bit misleading, since it turns out that toggling this on will keep your display brightness in check across all apps. But thats exactly the end result that Id want.On the iPhone side, Apple currently has no such setting thats specific to HDR. Its possible to avoid HDR content by enabling low power mode on your iPhone, but doing so makes a ton of other system changes that might be overkill. If youre looking for a reprieve from HDR on Instagram in particular, you can disable it in the apps settings in the media quality section. (I take credit for this after complaining about the issue a couple years ago.) That only applies to iOS, though. The option doesnt exist on Android, which makes Samsungs new toggle all the more useful.
0 Comments 0 Shares 27 Views