WhatsApp finally lets you send higher resolution photos
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- Anonymous
- 3pE
- 06 Sep 2023
Sam N8 808 owner, 05 Sep 2023A 2.25 MB selfie of 8MP (3264x2448) was sent as 417 KB file... moreThanks for your answer! 👍
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- Sam N8 808 owner
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- 05 Sep 2023
Anonymous, 03 Sep 2023Can you comment on file size too, how much smaller than nor... moreA 2.25 MB selfie of 8MP (3264x2448) was sent as 417 KB file. (5.39 times less)
Talking of my main camera of 12 Megapixels (4032x3024):-
A 5.68MB photo became 1.43MB. (3.97 times less)
A 6.89MB photo became 1.87MB. (3.68 times less)
A little approximation is used. All photos were sent as HD, and they all went at full resolution.
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- Anonymous
- 3pE
- 03 Sep 2023
Sam N8 808 owner, 20 Aug 2023Ok, I did a full megapixel test! It sends upto 13 MP maxim... moreCan you comment on file size too, how much smaller than normal phone camera jpg's are the files after sending over whatsapp?
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- Mimster
- mtk
- 26 Aug 2023
WhatsApp update - Best we can do is HD.
This should have been a standard, default setting, if i'm on saving mode plan, i'll definetly switch to low quality, even then, I would rather NOT send anything and just wait till I'll eventually send some HD pictures.
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- AnonD-864404
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- 24 Aug 2023
potato4k, 18 Aug 2023Why not just have the option to send “actual size” like WeChat? Yeah, like every user is already storing files on their own cloud (google drive). So there's no excuse for whatsapp to say about space saving, if a user decides to fill their storage faster, or can buy more storage, what's your problem, meta?
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- Sam N8 808 owner
- rJ{
- 21 Aug 2023
Andy, 20 Aug 2023Why WhatsApp not sending me velify code.....?Could be a lot of reasons:-
country code wrong?
phone number not accepting incoming sms/calls?
you tried to verify more than 3 times in 24 hours, which means you'll have to wait 1 hour, before another code, read the instructions carefully on whatsapp if this happens.
maybe you didn't give permission to whatsapp to read sms, which means you have to enter code manually,
As you gave very limited info, these suggestions might help.
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- Andy
- 6u6
- 20 Aug 2023
Why WhatsApp not sending me velify code.....?
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- ReaLogic
- 6v0
- 20 Aug 2023
Oh, I thought this was implemented a month ago?
I saw it on my whatsapp about 2 weeks ago and thought "Finally!".
For years, If I want to send by full resolution with no further compression to people,
I usually attach the pics as document.
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- Sam N8 808 owner
- rJ{
- 20 Aug 2023
Sam N8 808 owner, 20 Aug 2023"" Pixel amount is one thing, compression is anot... more@GSMArena staff: I suppose I've given you an idea for an article? :D
Of course, its better to wait until a stable update arrives, and then check the figures for long term relevance.
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- Sam N8 808 owner
- rJ{
- 20 Aug 2023
SgtGrimm, 18 Aug 2023i've got the update, when you press the HD button it c... moreOk, I did a full megapixel test!
It sends upto 13 MP maximum (from phone), and 5 Megapixels (from Whatsapp PC) in HD mode.
My 12 MP pic is going at 4032x3024, full res as it is.
But my 32MP selfie is downscaled to 4160x3120... so 13 Megapixels is the upper limit.
Strangely, RAW pics from mobile (.dng) go with 4016x3008.
And pics from computer go with 2560x1920, around 5 megapixels.
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- Sam N8 808 owner
- rJ{
- 20 Aug 2023
"" Pixel amount is one thing, compression is another - and WhatsApp has stayed mum on the latter, not revealing how much it will apply even to those "HD" photos ""
I suppose this is no problem.
The feature is already applied on whatsapp, and we can do a test on this. All we need to do is to have some specially prepared 8-10 images through whatsapp and download and analyse the result using photoshop or even the open source GIMPShop.
While saving the image, you see compression statistics in terms of a value from 0-100. Often 90 means ok ok quality, and DSLR's choose 97.
Even I can do this test myself.
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- ithehappy
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- 19 Aug 2023
Anonymous, 18 Aug 2023That's your problem for being ignorant. WhatsApp is st... moreYeah thanks for cementing my point. Lmao.
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- Aierlan
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- 18 Aug 2023
ashrobb, 18 Aug 2023Nope, same phone. Well, there goes that theory. Must be something from WhatsApp's end so
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- Omar
- Ivd
- 18 Aug 2023
I don't get it yet but I can expect it to exceptionally great
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- jordan
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- 18 Aug 2023
It doesn't work on iphone if you pick photo directly from gallery, then there is no HD button. If photo is added from Whatsapp on a plus sign it exists.
Hope they fix it soon :)
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- SgtGrimm
- tx3
- 18 Aug 2023
i've got the update, when you press the HD button it confirms the size, the usual standard is 1600 x 1200, while the HD option is 4000 x 3000, so quite the jump in size (both in pixel and megabytes lol)
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- SgtGrimm
- tx3
- 18 Aug 2023
i've got the update, the standard quality is 1600 x 1200, while the HD quality is listed at 4000 x 3000, so quite the bump in size!
- Whackcar
- 6p{
- 18 Aug 2023
You can already send photos & videos in full quality by sending them as documents. Size for videos can be upto 2GB.
But yes, it's good that they are finally upgrading their default image & video sharing options. Should've done it years ago though.
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- Anonymous
- 0cB
- 18 Aug 2023
Alex, 18 Aug 2023It is not about the storage space on the devices but the ne... moreForgot about that one. Agree.