Multiple exposures of the same subject can be merged to produce an unbounded 32-bit document, which contains a significant amount of tonal range—more, in fact, than most displays outside of specialised equipment can reproduce. The resulting 32-bit image can then be edited with Photo's extensive set of tools, adjustments and filters, or it can be tone mapped in order to map the extensive 32-bit tonal range to a result that looks suitable for most displays.
With Tone map HDR image disabled you will be in the Photo Persona once the merge is complete to make further edits. If you want to go tone mapping at a later date, you can move to the Tone Mapping Persona. See Tone Mapping HDR images for more information.
Alternatively to steps 1 through to 4, you can share two or more images from your library in Apple's Photos app to Affinity Photo’s New HDR Merge dialog. The first time you do this, tap More at the far right of the Share sheet's available actions, turn on the switch next to HDR Merge and tap Done to make this action available for use. Tap the action and follow from step 5 above.
Below you will see a 32-bit image being displayed as 8-bit with no tone mapping or further tonal adjustments applied. 32-bit simply contains too much tonal range to display, so we typically apply a procedure called Tone Mapping to map that tonal information to a range that can be displayed accurately. See the topic Tone Mapping HDR images for more information.
Once work on a 32-bit image is completed, you may need to convert its colour format and, crucially, its colour profile if you intend to distribute or share it. For example, you might want to export as an 8-bit JPEG with an sRGB colour profile. Alternatively, if you are maintaining a lossless workflow, you can stay in 32-bit and export to a linear unbounded format.