How to share WhatsApp images with High Quality in Original Resolution

How to share WhatsApp images with High Quality in Original Resolution

Sharing photos and videos using WhatsApp is very common and interesting features. You might have noticed that when you send a photo or video using WhatsApp, it automatically resizes the photo and sends a low quality compressed version of the image to the receiver mobile phone.

When you take a photo using your smartphone camera, this photo is taken with high resolution. Due to high resolution or high quality image, the size of the image is very large. WhatsApp have a built-in feature to minimize or reduce image quality to save data usage.

There is an option available in whatsapp to prevent from automatically compressing photos and reduce their resolution or quality.

If you also want to share and send high quality photos in original resolution using WhatsApp, following steps will help you:

1. Open WhatsApp on your mobile phone, tap on 3 vertical dots menu present at the top-right corner and select Settings option.

2. Now tap on “Storage and data” option.

3. Now look for “Media upload quality” option. This is the option which tells WhatsApp whether it should compress the photos or not.

At the moment, only one option is available to customize the quality of uploaded photos. I couldn’t find any option to set the quality of uploaded videos. I think the option to change video upload quality will be added in future versions of WhatsApp.

By default, the “Photo upload quality” option is set to “Auto (recommended)” which means WhatsApp will reduce the photo quality.

To force WhatsApp to send original high quality photos, tap on the option and select “Best quality” option and tap on OK button to apply changes.