{"id":41414,"date":"2023-12-11T15:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41414"},"modified":"2023-12-11T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:02:06","slug":"whatsapp-supports-photos-and-video-in-original-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/11\/whatsapp-supports-photos-and-video-in-original-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Supports Photos and Video in Original Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/12\/04\/whatsapp-send-photos-video-original-quality\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/12\/04\/whatsapp-send-photos-video-original-quality\/\"><p>WhatsApp is rolling out a new option that lets users on iPhone share photos and video over the messaging platform in their original quality.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>WhatsApp&rsquo;s latest feature avoids compression altogether by allowing photos and video to be shared as files, thereby preserving their original quality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being able to send full-quality media is one of the primary reasons to use iMessage. However, unfortunately, sharing a video from iOS will sometimes resize and re-encode it, reducing the quality. To send a full-quality video, I find that I have to attach it as a file from my Mac.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/11\/apple-blocks-beeper-mini\/\">Apple Blocks Beeper Mini<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/07\/end-to-end-security-for-facebook-messenger\/\">End-to-End Security for Facebook Messenger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/06\/standalone-beeper-mini-brings-imessage-to-android\/\">Standalone Beeper Mini Brings iMessage to Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/17\/whatsapp-more-private-than-imessage\/\">WhatsApp More Private Than iMessage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick: WhatsApp is rolling out a new option that lets users on iPhone share photos and video over the messaging platform in their original quality.[&#8230;]WhatsApp&rsquo;s latest feature avoids compression altogether by allowing photos and video to be shared as files, thereby preserving their original quality. Being able to send full-quality media is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-12-11T20:01:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"54db2912-d85e-46e1-bc3a-5e729b9d70ac","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-12-11T20:02:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AVNspEtheRuG8Ol5ym51wrA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[140,31,2321,26,30,2385,141,1363],"class_list":["post-41414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-imessage","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-messages","tag-whatsapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41421,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41414\/revisions\/41421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}