In recent years, HDR has taken on a new importance in Android phones. Ultra HDR, for example, has become a new standard. Despite the JPEG file format, images are displayed in HDR exactly as users took them with the camera
However, Android smartphones have the special feature that photos are displayed with higher screen brightness. This is intended to enhance the HDR effect, but can be quite annoying. Samsung users have had almost no chance to use this feature until now, but there is a new solution.
A UI 7 becomes Allows the user to disable the automatic increase in screen brightness when photos are displayed in Super HDR or Ultra HDR.
The big advantage of adaptive innovation: this switch no longer applies only to Samsung’s Gallery app, but eventually system-wide and therefore to other apps (Instagram, etc.).
One UI 7 is currently in an experimental phase and will be rolled out to Galaxy phones from January based on Android 15, but first on the Galaxy S25.
