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Apple Pro Display XDR no longer switching to HDR
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jdw13
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Possible. But in my case it's not just video content. Lightroom's HDR toggle also no longer works (e.g. HDR photos not triggering HDR output).
It's all really odd.
It's all really odd.
Finally after weeks of follow up, apple has acknowledged the issue as an ecosystem issue and they will fix the issue within the upcoming updates(though they didn't promies the timeline). Atleast they accepting the issue is a positive sign and hope they will fix it soon.
darthaddie
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Also facing the same issue with FCP X. Works fine with Davinci. All this while I thought I have lost track on how to edit HDR in FCP when I have been doing it for 3 years. On 3 separate occasions I had the screen turn washed out grey and the only fix was to reboot or change display modes. Tahoe sucks big time.
Update from my end:
To my very surprise, after booting my Mac Studio today, I received a firmware upgrade for my XDR Pro Display. Installed it, rebooted, and voila, HDR is back. Everywhere.
I am not sure why this required a firmware update (since it used to work in previous macOS versions just fine with the old firmware).
Case closed, for me.
To my very surprise, after booting my Mac Studio today, I received a firmware upgrade for my XDR Pro Display. Installed it, rebooted, and voila, HDR is back. Everywhere.
I am not sure why this required a firmware update (since it used to work in previous macOS versions just fine with the old firmware).
Case closed, for me.
Glad to hear it! I didn't realize they release firmware upgrades for the display but that makes sense. Mine isn't really fixed but I have third party monitor. The only other thing I learned since our last discussion was that my screen would randomly black out and come back online. I used to think it was just a bad HDMI cable but I realized in BetterDisplay that macOS was actually switching from full range RGB to limited range RGB each time it would black out. So I redid everything in BetterDisplay and HDR still wasn't working haha.
In any case, happy to see yours got solved! Was there any specific note about HDR in the patch notes?
In any case, happy to see yours got solved! Was there any specific note about HDR in the patch notes?
Just now seeing this. Where did you get this info? I wonder if it will be included in macOS update so it can work with 3rd party monitor.
Oh nice i see macos 26.3 beta is out! so hopefully we get the HDR fix soon 🙂 sorry for spamming this thread I'm just excited haha.
I didn't get any info. When I rebooted my Mac this morning, a popup showed up, offering me to install new firmware for the display. Everybody with the external XDR Pro display should receive this. It may take a reboot.
Not sure about other Macs (especially Macbooks with built in XDR displays).
I am not even sure this firmware update was for the HDR issue, but it did fix it for me.
I am on macOS 26.2, btw.
That’s a great news. This means apple did acknowledge the issue and a wide level fix for devices can be expected soon. I will post once my iPad Pro got the fix..
HDR is no longer working on my Macbook Pro M1 Max with the Pro Display XDR either. I recently upgraded to Tahoe and noticed it.
Interestingly, I noticed that the on Youtube HDR content (in Chrome) if I hover over a part of the video the preview does seem to look in HDR even though the video itself is very dull in comparison.
See screenshots below.
Anyone have a fix for this?
Interestingly, I noticed that the on Youtube HDR content (in Chrome) if I hover over a part of the video the preview does seem to look in HDR even though the video itself is very dull in comparison.
See screenshots below.
Anyone have a fix for this?
No fix I can suggest aside from installing the new firmware update another user reported in this thread for the XDR display. Based on other's experience, hopefully a broader fix is coming with the new macos patch.
SDAVE
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That was me, and I have the "real" XDR Pro Display, e. g. the external monitor, not one built into a Macbook. That's an entirely different display and I don't know if Macbooks also receive such a firmware update.
But apple no where officially acknowledge this issue in any media though the engineering team told that it’s an ongoing issue. So it’s not sure when this issue will be fixed. By going thru many sources that what causing this issue, I came to understand that the Liquid Glass UI is making this issue. So unless there is a UI level fix nothing will be solved. iPadOS/macos 27 is the only hope as apple is not serious in fixing this issue.
Interestingly, my work Macbook Pro M4 works perfectly fine with the same laptop display. Also running Tahoe.
I'm just running on the laptop XDR Display (which does support HDR). Same laptop display on both my M1 Max and M4 Pro Macbook Pros. The M4 Pro one works perfectly, the M1 Max one no longer does (and I know it did until very recently).
On a very strange side note, I turned on, off again the Power setting "Optimize video streaming while on battery", even though I am plugged in (but holding at 80%) and HDR is now working in Safari. Still not working in Chrome, so I wonder if Apple just isn't supporting some Chrome video encoding codec.