We’ve all had the occasion to record an awesome video with our iPhone in 4K at 60fps — maybe even with ProRes — and when you share it with someone on whatsapp it looks much worse. This is a problem, but it can be solved in a very simple way.
To optimize resources Meta messaging app compresses photos and videos that we send. On the one hand, it’s a good thing because it allows us to share them much faster and without consuming so much data, but on the other hand, when what interests us in the video is its quality, this is where it does not favor us so much.
So you can send videos without being compressed
There is a little trick to be able to avoid this compression and share the videos we have with our contacts as we did back then. It’s a bit more tedious and obviously it will take more time to send and download
When you save the video you want to send, you will have to go to the gallery, locate it, click on the share option, select “Save to files”, choose the folder where you want to have it and press “to safeguard”.
Then, to be able to send this video to any WhatsApp contact without losing quality, we will have to press the + symbol in the chat, select “Document”, search for the video, press “Open” at the top right and press on the blue arrow at the bottom right to send it to our contact.
You will see that it is sent in a different format, and it takes a few seconds to do so. It’s normal. It takes much longer and WhatsApp can’t process the preview or compress it, so it will reach the recipient as it was saved, although it will also take a few seconds longer to download.
As you can see, it’s relatively easy to share videos without WhatsApp compression ruining them. It’s a bit more tedious process, and it will take us a few more seconds, but it’s easy and anyone can do it. We don’t need to download anything, or install a beta version… just a little patience.
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