WhatsApp: THE SECRET from iPhone and Android with a Huge Trick

WhatsApp compression

WhatsApp is an application full of secrets, as you probably already know, but little by little they are revealed to everyone, and we are talking about a trick that you should know about today. The WhatsApp application, in case you haven't noticed until now, modifies the pictures we send to various contacts, their resolution being substantially reduced, while the general quality of the picture sent by us is also greatly affected.

WhatsApp compresses the images that we send to other people through the messaging platform, and this in the conditions that the company wants everything to be done quickly and without high internet consumption. Unfortunately, this whole process is not explained to the users who use WhatsApp, so the pictures they send end up with substantially reduced quality to the people who should receive them, and of course people don't know exactly what's going on.

WhatsApp: THE SECRET from iPhone and Android with a Huge Trick

WhatsApp compresses pictures and videos sent through the platform without users being able to do anything to stop it, but there is still a trick you can use to get over this limitation. More precisely, sending pictures as if they were documents blocks their compression process, so that WhatsApp sends everything at the original resolution at which the pictures were recorded, so they will reach the normal quality to our interlocutors.

WhatsApp allows us to select documents for sending from dedicated applications on iPhone and Android, in the case of iOS it is mandatory to use Files, which is installed by default in iOS. If you save your photos there, WhatsApp will allow you to send them as if they were documents, and in the case of Android you must use an application that allows you to manage files from your phones, everything being very easy to do, if you look carefully.

WhatsApp has its own reasons, and in the end quite good ones, to prevent sending pictures in original quality, but the existence of the option to send pictures without being compressed would also be useful.