{"id":477435,"date":"2023-01-24T09:38:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=477435"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T07:43:23","slug":"whatsapp-working-on-big-image-quality-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/477435-whatsapp-working-on-big-image-quality-changes.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp working on big image quality changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is working on letting users bypass image compression to send original-quality photos on the platform, WABetaInfo <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-23-2-11-whats-new\/#more-18757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is included but not active in WhatsApp Beta for Android 2.23.2.11.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, WhatsApp&#8217;s settings let users select &#8220;automatic&#8221;, &#8220;best quality&#8221;, and &#8220;data saver&#8221; when it comes to image quality sent on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>However, even the &#8220;best quality&#8221; setting compresses photos to some extent to provide faster data transfers that take up less storage space.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp plans to add a photo quality configuration option to the image editing screen \u2014 the interface displayed once an image has been selected to send.<\/p>\n<p>According to WABetaInfo, the new image configuration feature will allow users to select the original quality for the photos they send.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2022, MyBroadband tested a workaround that lets WhatsApp users send higher-quality images on the platform by selecting the document attachment option rather than the image option.<\/p>\n<p>We were able to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/449554-avoid-losing-whatsapp-image-quality-with-this-trick.html\">bypass the compression mechanism<\/a><\/strong> using this method.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that MyBroadband also tested the &#8220;best quality&#8221; preset. However, this made no difference to image quality based on our testing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/477151-microsoft-testing-notepad-tabs-in-windows-11.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft testing Notepad tabs in Windows 11<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp plans to add a photo quality configuration option to the image editing screen to let users send original-quality images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":475757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[161,83865,73842,2594],"class_list":["post-477435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-image-quality","tag-meta-platforms","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477453,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477435\/revisions\/477453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}