WhatsApp aims to provide faster data transfer even with limited connectivity. To achieve it, it compresses the images you send. The instant messaging platform from Meta automatically resizes images before it is being sent to the receiver. Even if the image is of high quality, WhatsApp acts as an image compressor and reduces the quality and size of the image before sending it. However, it allows managing of storage and data through the settings.
Improve the quality of photo uploads
If you are looking to send better quality images on WhatsApp, here’s how to do it.
- First you should open the WhatsApp application on your phone.
- Now, tap on the three-dot icon at top-left on your Android phone and select Settings from the drop-down menu or the Settings icon at the bottom of an iPhone.
- On the Settings page, tap on Storage and data options.
- Scroll to the bottom of the screen and under the Media upload quality, tap on Photo upload quality.
- Here, you can choose between the Auto (recommended), Best quality and Data saver option. To send images in the best quality, you should select the option.
- When you select the best quality option, it automatically improves the quality of the images you send via WhatsApp. However, even with this option, WhatsApp compresses the image and reduces its size to save the data. Most of the resizing that WhatsApp does is to support the application even for Mobile data users, who are data conscious due to the limited data availability.
You can choose to auto-download media files only when you are on Wi-Fi, on mobile data or while roaming and use less data for calls. With this setting, you should also be able to manage the media upload quality. has been reportedly working on a new Communities feature and now, we have our first look at the same. The Communities feature is set to make the app for feature-rich and will allow to link up to 10 groups in a single ‘Community’.
The feature has been recently spotted in an iOS beta build and is expected to come to both platforms soon.
With communities, admins of a community will have more control than admins of a group and will be able to do things like deciding who can message on a group and who cannot. Meanwhile, when members will leave a community, they will not be able to view the linked groups either.
As per a report by tipster WABetaInfo, the feature will give Communities their own name and group description. Communities will help better organisation in the app, and will benefit larger groups which may need further sub-groups but still needing a centralised control mechanism for all members.
As per the screenshot, communities will also feature an “Announcement” group where admins can send messages to all members in the various linked groups, similar to how a broadcast works but for the members of the community.
The feature will also be ideal for remote work settings where large teams will now be able to be split into multiple groups but still linked via a single community, or more if needed.
The feature is expected to soon roll out to WhatsApp beta users on iOS and Android, but it could take a while before stable users get to use WhatsApp communitie
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