Android 16 Prepares New Control For The Brightness Level Of HDR Content

HDR content can often be blinding, but Android 16 is preparing a new control that lets you change the brightness level.

Over the past few years, HDR content has become much more popular across social media platforms and, really, anything we do on our phones. But the headache that many have faced is that, when this HDR content is displayed, it makes the screen a lot brighter.

It seems that Google is finally preparing to allow users to control this in Android 16, as new screenshots from @MysticLeaks reveal.

A new page in “Display & touch” Settings will allow users to control “Enhanced HDR Brightness.” This includes a toggle to completely turn off the brighter treatment of HDR content, as well as a slider to adjust the “intensity” of HDR content. A preview on the page shows the user what this will look like.

This setting doesn’t exist in the current Android 16 QPR1 beta, but it’s suggested that it could arrive “as soon as the next QPR1 beta” which is expected to arrive in the next couple of weeks.

Notably, Samsung also introduced a similar option in its One UI 7 update, but it’s a simple on/off toggle, not a