WhatsApp is testing a new feature that could make it easier to share high-quality photos and videos in the Mail app. Now, all the snapshots that you share with your friends or family through the mail app are reduced through lossy compression, which greatly reduces their quality. But as WABetaInfo discovered, a new option being tested in the beta version of WhatsApp for Android (version 16) would give you the option of sending photos or videos to a "data saver" (zipped) or to a new "Best quality". ". format. It's still unclear whether "Best Quality" means absolutely uncompressed or, perhaps more surely, a lighter form of compression that preserves image quality. All the beta claims now is that "the Better quality photos are larger and may take longer to send." Google Photos already offers a similar dual option for your photos, but its alternative option to compressed photos is "original quality," which preserves the same resolution and quality as the original file. Either way, this is probably a really useful option for anyone who regularly uses WhatsApp to share photos, but would rather keep them intact than go through the app's ringtone compression. Exactly the same beta version of the app also contains an identical alternative for videos. Both options are likely to be in the 'storage and data' section of the WhatsApp settings in the Android app, though it's not yet clear if the exact same functionality is being tested for users from iOS.
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Crisis times
It is technically possible to send uncompressed photos using WhatsApp now, but it requires a difficult solution which is to convert the image to PDF before sending it. While it's still unclear when WhatsApp's new "Better Quality" feature will be officially rolled out, it promises to be a much smoother and more anticipated way to send photos while preserving the quality possible in them. The best cameras for phones Well, qu'il soit compréhensible that the mode par defaut de WhatApp consists of compressing the images à des fins de vitesse et de données mobiles, the omnipresence of the messaging app en fait an excellent move to share rapidly des clichés avec presque tout the planet. This also goes for professional photographers, who could use the app to send more pre-view shots to customers of the service if they didn't shrink each file to around 2MP. The promise of an "Automatic" mode in the beta screenshot above also suggests that you could let WhatsApp decide the level of compression, depending on whether you're using mobile data or Wi-Fi. We'll have to wait and see the full version, hopefully soon, before we see exactly how this alternative is going to work.