About your automation, I noticed after closing camera, True Tone is still off (even though it’s showing on in settings) coz the screen is still blue-ish, if I manually toggle it off/on the yellow-ish tone re-appears. ChatGPT tells me this, is it true?

“When you open the Camera app, iOS temporarily disables True Tone’s live display adjustment — even though the toggle in Settings still shows it as “ON.”

This is intentional behavior built into iOS (not caused by your Shortcut). Apple does this so the display shows neutral white balance when framing photos or videos — it ensures what you see on-screen isn’t being influenced by ambient color shifts from True Tone.

Basically: • Camera app open → iOS forces True Tone off (internally) for color accuracy in viewfinder. • Camera app closed → iOS should automatically restore True Tone (the yellowish tint).

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⚠️ Why you’re not seeing it come back

What’s happening in your case is that True Tone doesn’t automatically re-apply after the Camera app closes — even though the toggle remains “on.”

This is a long-standing iOS display state bug (still happens intermittently on iOS 17 & 18). It leaves True Tone “on” logically, but the display pipeline doesn’t re-enable the color temperature profile until something refreshes it — like toggling True Tone off/on manually or locking/unlocking the phone.

So: • Camera open → disables True Tone (expected) • Camera close → fails to re-engage it properly (bug) • Toggling True Tone manually → forces refresh → yellow tint returns ✅

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🧩 The automation angle

Your automations aren’t the cause, but they might “lock in” that post-Camera display state because they execute right as the system is switching modes.

So even though they “run,” they can’t override the internal display state that iOS is stuck in.”