Over the weekend, MacRumors forum users noted that the most recent YouTube App update added HDR support for the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max. YouTube has supported HDR on its iOS app since the iPhone X but has required updates to support new hardware.
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To check to see if you are watching YouTube videos at their highest quality, you can simply press the three dots on the top right of the video, and you should see "HDR" options listed on supported videos. HDR options are also only be available on devices released since 2017 that have OLED displays (so that excludes all iPad models and the iPhone 11 and iPhone XR).
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It’s taking Apple even longer to fix my Reminders, so yeah...It only took them a month to add HDR support for new iPhone
They do, and it’s been supported on those phones as well. Updates came out after release of those phones. Each new phone requires the app be updated, so this is just adding the new 11 models to the mix.I thought that the X and XS had HDR displays too?
The 11 Pros hit 1200 nits peak HDR brightness, in case you didn’t know.I always wonder what’s the point of this? Because their is no way a phone display has the brightness to properly or effectively show HDR content, it surely is nothing more then a marketing gimmick?
And since the point of high brightness is for high contract ratio, OLED displays don’t need as high of a brightness as LCD displays do, due to being able to display true blacks. None of the LG OLED TVs even reach 1000 nits, and yet they’re still among the best HDR TVs.