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Samsung will let you disable annoyingly-bright HDR content across all apps


HDR content can be great, but isn’t welcome at all hours.

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. With its forthcoming One UI 7 update that’s currently in beta, Samsung is giving Galaxy phone owners a system-wide kill switch for disabling HDR content. It’s 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.

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