WhatsApp is the largest messaging application in the world at the moment, with almost 2 billion people using it to communicate with other people, or to send pictures and videos from their own phones. Billions of pictures and video clips are shared daily through the WhatsApp application all over the world, but what many people do not know is that all these files are extremely modified at the time of sharing.
WhatsApp compresses pictures and video clips extremely much, ruining their quality to a great extent, and this is because this is how the application owned by Facebook was designed from the very beginning. Any kind of picture and video clip have a much reduced resolution, along with the quality level of the respective multimedia content, this procedure being done automatically by WhatsApp when the files are sent through its servers.
WhatsApp: What Users DIDN'T KNOW the Application does in Phones
WhatsApp compresses pictures and video clips so that they are much smaller and can be sent much more easily to other phones, where they are downloaded much faster than normal. The same thing is also done by Facebook Messenger, without too many people knowing what is happening, and in the case of WhatsApp, the compression level does not seem to be much lower, although in the end users do not enjoy it too much.
WhatsApp does this automatically without telling people when the pictures are of substantially reduced quality at the time of sending, so people see the end result without knowing exactly what happens to the pictures and videos. Although WhatsApp does this, iMessage, for example, does not modify in any way the quality of pictures and video clips unless the user expressly requests this, so the thinking is completely different.
WhatsApp won't be modified anytime soon to at least have an option to send photos and videos in their original quality to other people, so don't expect that to happen anytime soon.
