The machinery of WhatsApp is greasing for the next updates that we will see. In fact, there are great news that await us with the arrival of the multi-device support or the already redesigned video calling system introduced a few days ago. But nevertheless, many of the features that remain to be seen are still in beta for the select group of beta testers and over time we will see them officially in the app. One of those functions has given its face a few hours ago in a beta version. It's about the possibility to modify the quality of multimedia files when they are sent, varying between better quality, automatic or data saving.
Upcoming on WhatsApp: modifying the quality of sent images
The quality of the images sent by WhatsApp has always been a headache for the most active users in the application. When we send multimedia content through the application, a content compression plus resolution reduction with the aim of reducing the weight of the file and avoiding the excessive consumption of mobile data.
The result, therefore, is the reception of images with a much lower quality (around 50% of its resolution) than the original. This makes users opt for other platforms to send and receive images at much higher qualities. But nevertheless, Since the beta of WhatsApp a new option has been discovered that allows modifying the loading quality of multimedia files.
This new option allows the user modify how media files want to be sent in their chats, being able to decide between three options:
- Automatic (recommended)
- Best Quality
- Data saving
It is clear and so specified by WhatsApp that the higher the quality, the greater the weight of the images, the more data will be consumed and the longer it will take to send. However, letting the user choose is an advance in a social network in which, until now, sending images was disastrous.
'Better quality' is not optimal quality
But of course, all that glitters is not gold. Although it may seem that better quality implies maximum qualities or even a quality close to the original, it is not like that. Thanks to the information collected by BetaInfo we can know that with the option 'Better quality' the algorithm is modified chosen to compress images. This algorithm allows keep 80% of original quality versus 50% today.
Also, if the image is larger than 2048 × 2048, WhatsApp is likely to change its size when it is sent. Conversely, the option 'Save data' will send images of very low quality, ideal for those users who do not have a large mobile data plan.
We also remember that the compression algorithms used in the States are different from those used in chats. So this option to modify the quality of the delivery is only for chats. The option is gradually reaching the beta testers of the application and it is expected that in the coming weeks it will appear in a generalized way to the general population.
I hope they also change that of being able to send long-duration videos like in telegram that of dividing the videos into parts is very annoying and also that the states are 1 minute as in messenger and not 30 seconds
that they also put states of one minute