WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart says the platform is adding the ability to send high-definition photos.<\/p>\n
The Facebook-owned messaging platform usually compresses images to save storage space and speed up transfers.<\/p>\n
Users can now select a high-resolution image from their device’s gallery and choose to send it in HD by activating the relevant button at the top of the caption screen.<\/p>\n
“A lot of people have been asking for this one! You can now share your photos in HD,” said<\/a><\/strong> Cathcart.<\/p>\n Users can choose from a standard quality (1,600 x 1,052), which takes less space and is faster to send, or the HD quality (4,096 x 2,692) option.<\/p>\n Doing so will add an HD icon to the image’s message box that both the sender and recipient can see.<\/p>\n The feature is rolling out worldwide over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n According to The Verge<\/a><\/strong>, the company is also working on adding support for HD videos soon.<\/p>\n WhatsApp has been working on HD image support<\/a><\/strong> since at least January 2023, when user interface elements for the feature were included, but not activated, in WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.2.11.<\/p>\n Currently, WhatsApp’s settings let users select “automatic”, “best quality”, and “data saver” when it comes to image quality sent on the platform.<\/p>\n However, even the “best quality” setting compresses photos to some extent to provide faster data transfers that take up less storage space.<\/p>\n WhatsApp is rolling out a feature that lets users send images in higher quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":475757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[161,35,73842,2594,70069],"class_list":["post-504666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-facebook","tag-headline","tag-meta-platforms","tag-whatsapp","tag-will-cathcart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504666"}],"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=504666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504682,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504666\/revisions\/504682"}],"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=504666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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