{"id":1471,"date":"2026-04-21T14:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/instagram-says-a-bug-turned-your-photos-black-and-white\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:18:02","slug":"instagram-says-a-bug-turned-your-photos-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/instagram-says-a-bug-turned-your-photos-black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram says a bug turned your photos black and white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/meta-is-testing-an-instagram-plus-subscription-service-with-exclusive-features-181215180.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\">Instagram<\/a> has been turning your color photo posts into black and white recently, don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s no problem with your camera or your account. The Meta-owned app has confirmed to Engadget that the issue is caused by a bug that\u2019s affecting HDR photos in particular. &#8220;Earlier today, a technical issue caused some HDR photos to appear incorrectly as black-and-white for a subset of accounts,\u201d Instagram has told us. However, we see <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link rapid-with-clickid\" href=\"https:\/\/shopping.yahoo.com\/rdlw?merchantId=58a137b8-4748-4ad2-b1db-003c79a332f5&amp;siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=a30b5414-39ff-4b19-a5c1-42b6ea694227&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;merchantName=Facebook&amp;linkText=complaints&amp;custData=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&amp;signature=AQAAAeGt6bfF4T50hYsawPioBOtBzrypygKYBcaYEAZ5VJaf&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F100086396888406%2Fposts%2Fwhy-are-my-photos-changing-to-black-white-after-i-post-on-instagram-im-posting-i%2F955049550718266%2F\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:Facebook;elmt:;cpos:2;pos:1\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100086396888406\/posts\/why-are-my-photos-changing-to-black-white-after-i-post-on-instagram-im-posting-i\/955049550718266\/\">complaints<\/a> dated April 18 and 19, so the issue has been going on a bit longer for some people. <\/p>\n<p>Regardless of when the bug started causing problems, the Instagram team said it has since corrected the issue. If your posts are still showing up in black and white, Instagram said the fix will automatically turn your affected photo posts back to their original state over the next few hours. \u201cWe apologize for any inconvenience,\u201d they added. <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apps\/instagram-says-a-bug-turned-your-photos-black-and-white-061802389.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/instagram-says-a-bug-turned-your-photos-black-and-white\/\">Instagram says a bug turned your photos black and white<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Instagram has been turning your color photo posts into black and white recently, don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s no problem with your camera or your account. The Meta-owned app has confirmed to Engadget that the issue is caused by a bug that\u2019s affecting HDR photos in particular. &#8220;Earlier today, a technical issue caused some HDR photos to appear incorrectly as black-and-white for a subset of accounts,\u201d Instagram has told us. However, we see complaints dated April 18 and 19, so the issue has been going on a bit longer for some people. Regardless of when the bug started causing problems, the Instagram team said it has since corrected the issue. If your posts are still showing up in black and white, Instagram said the fix will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}