Video color change in instagram after uploading from my adroid device

There are many potential display differences between iPhone and Android phones.

According to DisplayMate, many Android phones can be set to any one of several Display Modes. These modes can reproduce different color gamuts including wide gamuts, such as sRGB, P3, and whatever the native gamut of the panel is. The exact options depend on the phone brand and model, so it’s easy for two Android phones to be set to display differently. In addition, I am not sure how far along Android is with color management at the OS level. Combine those two factors, and it’s very easy for a video or photo to not look the same as on your computer…especially if you exported using color settings that aren’t consistent how the display options are set on one phone or the other.

In comparison, an iPhone is always set to P3 color gamut, and iOS does have system-level color management to help reconcile color through color profiles (although that’s more for photos than video). So in general, there is a somewhat higher chance that colors will look more consistent between a properly profiled computer display and an iPhone. But people still complain that iPhone images don’t exactly match their Mac, so it’s not perfect that way either.

That’s because there are still many other ways for a video to look different between any computer and any phone depending on other ways that both device displays can be set, including ambient light color temperature correction (what Apple calls TrueTone), night mode/blue light reduction (what Apple calls Night Shift), the brightness setting, whether auto brightness is changing the screen, etc. So it’s easy for just two iPhones to look different too, depending on each owner set those options.

A phrase that is HUGE in the initial training for pro colorists:

"You can't fix gramma's green TV."

Meaning no matter what you do for precise calibration in your system, you have no control what so flipping ever on anyone else's screen "out in the wild". If gramma's TV is off to the green, everything on that screen will be off to the green.

Understand and hang onto that, because ... every flipping screen out there is different from evey other screen ... even identical models of the same screen.

Colorists normally have more money tied up in screen calibration gear than our entire computer systems cost, and yet ... even using expensive spectrophotometers like a Klein (much better than Xrite or Spyder systems) .... they can't totally match two screens side by side.

So ... getting identical views on different devices, especially in this case, throwing in operational system differences as well as physical difference between the devices ... and you cannot expect identical images. It just will never happen.

All that said, understood, and accepted?

Ok, now we need to nail down exactly what the difference is, how much a difference there is, and this all very specifically, to see if there is a way to get somewhat closer than you get now. Or ... not.

The differences between Apple's devices and all others is ... well, pronounced. For desktop monitor use, it's pretty maddening, as Apple chose a totally non-standard display setting for Rec.709 that messes up EVERYONE. And you can't 'fix' an issue caused by a manufacturer's blunder like that.

Not even my many colorist buds, nearly all total Mac geeks, and ... all of them ... really, massively ticked at Apple.

Their portable devices actually have a better rep, mostly sort of. They are ... always ... a pretty screen, even if in their own inimitable Apple way "unique". Sometimes, some can be pretty accurate though. 

So which Apple device, and what settings were used on that device, is part of the question. As is what Android device, and what settings there? My Samsung phone (an ultra) has very few user screen settings. One works mostly ok, and a couple others get vastly more saturation, which initially looks good. But oi vey ... they really, really mess up relative color relationships, when you start comparing pro produced media.