HDR content material appears superb, till it burns your retinas at 11pm in a darkish room. Annoyingly, the power to show off HDR content material on Android gadgets has been lacking, however Samsung is lastly offering an possibility with its One UI 7 replace for Galaxy gadgets.

One UI 7 brings a variety of tweaks and adjustments to the system, and a type of is a brand new possibility to show off “Tremendous HDR” by way of the Settings app. Samsung describes this toggle saying:

Robotically regulate the show to indicate the complete vary of colours and distinction in photos taken with Galaxy gadgets.

It’s a comparatively imprecise description, and definitely doesn’t absolutely clarify what’s occurring. What this toggle does is, on a system degree, disables the complete brightness of HDR content material when apps are show content material in HDR. Beforehand, the same toggle within the Samsung Gallery app disabled this output in that particular app, but it surely’s system-wide on this new model, working even in third-party apps equivalent to Instagram in our testing, although we did discover that the app wanted to be absolutely closed after the toggle is modified for HDR to totally flip off.

The parents over at Android Authority clarify that Samsung’s “Tremendous HDR” is utilizing Google’s “Extremely HDR” format which can also be utilized by third-party apps and different manufacturers. So this isn’t restricted to photographs taken by Samsung Galaxy gadgets, however any content material utilizing the “Extremely HDR” format. The setting is discovered beneath Settings > Superior options > Tremendous HDR.

For now, this toggle is simply obtainable in One UI 7, Samsung’s Android 15 replace, which is simply on the Galaxy S24 sequence in beta. The replace can be rolling out to extra gadgets in 2025 and, hopefully, it’ll carry this toggle together with it.

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