WhatsApp is rolling out a brand new characteristic that may enable customers to ship high-definition (HD) photographs on iOS and Android. The characteristic, which is at the moment being examined by a small group of beta testers, will enable customers to ship pictures with out them being closely compressed, though a lightweight compression will nonetheless apply.
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WABetaInfo‘s reporting, the brand new possibility is on the market within the newest beta model of WhatsApp on Android (v2.23.12.13) and iOS (v23.11.0.76). Nonetheless, this selection is simply that — an possibility — and never the default setting. Which means it’ll should be chosen anytime you wish to ship a picture with lighter compression.
The present picture sending choices embody “auto,” “highest quality,” and “knowledge saver,” however none of those choices enable for no compression in any respect. Just like different widespread messaging functions, WhatsApp makes use of computerized compression of photographs and movies to reduce their dimension and facilitate expedited picture transfers.
As soon as you have chosen a picture to ship, you possibly can ship it at a better high quality by tapping the brand new HD icon that seems on the prime. Nonetheless, the choice solely seems in case you are attempting to ship a picture with larger decision.It would not seem like this characteristic will prolong to movies, which is a disgrace contemplating that WhatsApp is utilized by many as an alternative choice to iMessage/RCS when sending movies cross-platform. Nonetheless, there’s a workaround to this by attaching the film as a doc as a substitute of a media file.
It’s unknown when this characteristic will roll out to the plenty as it is just simply now rolling out in beta. Nonetheless, The brand new HD picture and frivolously compressed picture characteristic is a major enchancment to WhatsApp’s media sharing capabilities and can enable customers to ship larger high quality photographs and movies to family and friends with out worrying about file dimension or compression.
