Do You Want To Send HD Photos On WhatsApp? Here's How

WhatsApp has largely invested in our communication habits, to the point that it’s replacing traditional SMS for some. While the good old short message services are still struggling to be harmonised, for example by adopting the RCS protocol on all smartphones (and especially Apple iPhones), the meta-platform allows more and more fantasies.

In addition to sending voice messages, read receipts and, more recently, creating polls within group discussions, WhatsApp recently allowed sending large files of up to 2 GB, as is already offered by Wetransfer.

Photos without compression, it is possible

Nevertheless, the sending of images has so far been systematically compressed. It was easy to choose between several loading qualities for the photos (optimal, data saver or auto). Even in optimal quality, compression remains important, at a rate of a few hundred kilobytes for a 2.7 MB original photo. It is therefore impossible to send your most beautiful 4K recording to a contact to show them your latest zucchini tandoori.

In fact, it is entirely possible to share HD images via WhatsApp. In fact, the manipulation is pretty easy as natively you just need to select “Document” instead of “Photo” when you decide to add an attachment to your message. From there, the application will prompt you to do so Choose from all files stored on your phone. However, it is possible filter images to make your choice easier. Your photo will then appear as a file and no longer as a visual preview. On the other hand, as long as the photo does not exceed 2 GB, it will keep its original size.

What solutions for larger files?

If you want to share photos larger than 2GB, don’t panic, there are alternative solutions. In particular, it is possible compress the file in .zip format, and then send it to your recipient. The solution is also not only available through the web version of the application as Android and iOS applications exist.

Finally, you can do the same for Google Photo users Generate sharing links directly from the GAFAM platform. Then simply send the URL in question to your conversation partner via WhatsApp, done. Note that this solution has many advantages, since it is possible to create a personalized shared album, enable automatic adding of specific photos according to the date taken and people present, but also authorize someone else to add snapshots to your shared album Library.