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TL;DR
- iPhone users have discovered an odd bug that is turning older photos taken on Android phones red.
- While the issue remains unexplained, some people point to possible HDR format incompatibility.
- While iOS 26.2 doesn’t fix it, some folks have also figured out a fix
Apple has long attempted to keep Android and related services out of reach for its users. That friction inadvertently impacts users switching from an Android device to an iPhone or using both OSes at the same time. Now, it appears iOS bugs may also lean into those biases.
Several iPhone users noticed an unexplained iOS 26 bug that changes the colors of pictures taken on Android devices and shared with them. Numerous reports on Reddit say that their pictures, when viewed in the iOS Photos app, turn red when they zoom in on the image. The same does not occur while viewing the images on a device running iOS 18.