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iPhone 12 Pro Max Increased brightness only when editing photos (HDR issue)
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I too am having a similar issue.
iPhone 12 Max 256GB Pacific Blue running 14.3
iPhone 12 Max 256GB Pacific Blue running 14.3
Hi @ajdb9 & @yuriy k. - Sorry to hear you're experiencing this too. If it's possible for you, I would suggest calling Apple support so they know this issue exists with different models and capacities. Maybe it'll help resolve more quickly too. Right now it seems that the only way for you to show them the HDR shift is to take a video clip with another device. No other methods I know of will capture it.
I noticed today that I have some kind of weird behavior with videos. I recorded a video and when I go in edit mode and just click in the middle of the screen on my video, the brightness also increases and I lose a lot of details.
Do you have the same "problem" with videos?
Do you have the same "problem" with videos?
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I have the same "feature" or problem. Pics taken with iPhone 12 Pro Max 512 Gold (any camera of the four) appear a bit dull on Photos but when I hit the Edit-button, it clearly pops out from the screen, like HDR viewing turned on. On videos there is the brightness and HDR clearly used all the time in the Photos app, not only when in Edit-mode. Screenshots don't have this effect when viewed in Edit-mode, so I'm guessing it's a bug how the Photos are viewed. All HDR features are On in Settings. This happens even if I turn the screen brightness to 100 %.
Mine does this too. iPhone 12 Pro Max 128.
of you screen record it does do it but not as much. I’ll try and attach a clip, look at the lighting on the reindeer
of you screen record it does do it but not as much. I’ll try and attach a clip, look at the lighting on the reindeer
The exact situation is happening with my iPhone 12 Max Pro. I called Apple Support the other day and created a ticket. Very annoying bug. Tried everything you’ve tried as well...
@SergioRZ - I just called in to see if there was new info from Apple on this. A senior tech advisor from creative told me that their engineers are working on it and we should see a resolve in a future update, possibly 14.4. He was unable to give an ETA on when the update will be available.
Great, thanks for the update, let's hope 14.4 doesn't take too long
I wonder if they will fix it in a way that allows us to see that glorious HDR all the time?
Now that I think of it, it would be really great to have the option to toggle HDR view ON and OFF right there when looking at a photo, without having to go to the settings. Sometimes I want to see how a photo will display on a non-HDR screen... but I don't want to have to disable it completely to see that momentarily.
Hi from Italy
Same issue for me. iPhone 12 Pro 256gb blue.
I thought I was crazy because I found nothing online about this incredible behaviour until I landed here. Thanks people.
I went through all the steps you described, in the end it’s clear now: view mode doesn’t show pics as bright (and beautiful) as edit mode. They are somewhat washed out.
It’s very bad a for a phone version that is supposed to be “Pro”.
Hope they fix it in due course!!! I guess and hope it’s “just” a software issue.
I also opened a discussion on this on Apple forum. I strongly hope they understand how bad this is for photo makers.
Same issue for me. iPhone 12 Pro 256gb blue.
I thought I was crazy because I found nothing online about this incredible behaviour until I landed here. Thanks people.
I went through all the steps you described, in the end it’s clear now: view mode doesn’t show pics as bright (and beautiful) as edit mode. They are somewhat washed out.
It’s very bad a for a phone version that is supposed to be “Pro”.
Hope they fix it in due course!!! I guess and hope it’s “just” a software issue.
I also opened a discussion on this on Apple forum. I strongly hope they understand how bad this is for photo makers.
I have iPhone 12 Pro Max 128GB and have exact same issue
wife has iPhone 11 Pro..side by side photos taken shows her photo is full HDR but mine won't HDR until I hit the edit button
gone into photo settings and turned off HDR and repeated - no contract increase
definitely and issue
FYI: Just downloaded the beta version of ios 14.4 and this issue was fixed!! ??
Yeah! This bug was really annoying and prompted me to download the ios 14.4 beta version. Thanks for starting the Brightness Editing Bug thread! It was nice to hear that I wasn't the only one with this issue. Cheers!Great news
What a relief! This has been driving me crazy for weeks and this forum is the first place I've been able to find information about it. Thanks to those who did all the hard work of getting Apple to look at the bug. I'm now cautiously hopeful that iOS 14.4 will include a fix. ?
I’m happy to report that iOS 14.4 definitely fixed the problem. I was as frustrated as you and called Apple Support twice myself...
I ended up here with this issue and you’re right I think - when you go into edit mode it turns up the brightness. If you crank the brightness and then edit/view the problem no longer occurs