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Nowadays, every camera supports shooting in HDR mode, in which several pictures are taken with different exposures, from which the resulting photo is then "composed". This method of taking pictures has not escaped even iPhones, which take three pictures in HDR mode. However, in the basic settings, the resulting photo is saved to the device twice. Once with enhancement and once without. This then causes the photos to theoretically take up twice as much space as they should.

V iOS Fortunately, it is possible to deactivate this option, thanks to which you iPhone poneonly the given enhanced photo. In this way, you can, for example, solve the problem of overfilling yourCloud the storage to which your gallery is synchronized.

As iOS disable double photo storage when shooting in HDR mode

  1. Open Settings on your device.
  2. Go to the Photos and Camera section.
  3. At the very bottom, toggle the switch for the P functiononechat normal to the off position.

That is all. From now on, every time you take a new High Dynamic Range photo, only that one will be saved and you won't fill up your storage with another photo. If you don't want to take photos in this mode at all, launch Camera, click the HDR button in the top control bar, and choose the Off option. You can recognize shooting in this mode by the yellow HDR logo appearing at the top of the screen.

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