When Facebook bought WhatsApp, it did so in part because it was one of the few competitors that could destabilize its dominance in the social media and messaging app industry. Despite this acquisition, Mark Zuckerberg’s company did not transform the application into a clone of Facebook Messenger nor was it paid or announced.
For all that The use of this service has been maintained and has gradually developed, despite the limitations it has compared to the base. Meta has fixed many of these issues and now allows, for example, the application to be used from another mobile phone without having to delete the original from the main mobile phone.
Another of the failures of the application has always been the multimedia content management, which has always favored speed of delivery over quality. In the early days of the app this might have made sense, but currently the quality of cell phone cameras and screens makes us want as much clarity as possible. Fortunately, this has changed recently, although many users are still unaware of it.
Enabling Maximum Resolution
WhatsApp engineers updated the app a few months ago to enable sending and receiving high-resolution images and videos. High, at least compared to what WhatsApp offered not so long ago. To use this function, simply click on a new icon that appears on the interface when you attach an image or video to a chat.
This is an icon with HD text
If this is not touched again, all photos and videos we send with sufficient quality will be sent with HD active, resulting in People who receive it in this chat can see and save it with better quality. However, there is some compression and the photos will never look like we see them when we take them on the smartphone.
To make them look like this you would have to resort to an old trick, which is to send the images as attachments and not as photos. The same thing happens with videos. Of course, this way you lose the ability to preview the chat content and you will have to go to a file or image manager to see the upload.