Among the news and improvements that WhatsApp Constantly evolving, there are those on the way, such as opportunity Use avatars in video callsA More variety of emojis Respond to messages or The ability to hide the fact that we are “online”.

Also, it’s very common to see features that Already a operating system And after some time they are available in another. This is exactly what happens with the tool that Infobae explains below: Pixelate all or part of photos before sending to contacts.

for whatsapp iOS It has been offering this opportunity for a long time, but Now also available on WhatsApp Android. Below are all the details about this news.

How to pixelate an image in WhatsApp for iOS

If for some reason you want to hide an element of a photo (for example, a car license plate, text, some important information on your ID, or a child’s face) before sending it to a group or private chat, WhatsApp allows it. from A messaging app, Right from the image editor.

For this you just have to Follow the normal procedure for sharing images with contacts:

1. Tap the button (+) in the lower left corner.

2. touch ‘Photos and videos’.

3. Choose one Gallery image to open the editor.

4. Tap pencil icon from the upper right corner.

5. In the color bar, Select Pixelated which will be at the bottom.

6. Slide finger in the area That you want to pixelate it as if you were coloring it.

7. When this area is pixelated, Click “Send” and it is ready.

How to pixelate an image in WhatsApp for Android

In Android, the pixelation option is also enabled before sending the photo to the image editor. But the process is a little different:

1. After selecting a photo to send, tap pencil icon which is in the upper right corner.

2. In this case, the new pixel tool is not in the color bar, but instead will appear in the lower right corner with his own image.

3. Tap the pixelated icon, Swipe across the entire area which you want to pixelate and when ready, press ‘send’.

2 methods to send WhatsApp images without losing quality

Method 1: Send the original image via WhatsApp by changing the name

– Open any file browser and rename the image to send image.jpg (or .png or .jpeg) image.pdf or image.doc.

– The browser may display a warning message after changing the name. You should ignore it and move on.

– Now the specific image is converted into a file pdf/doc. You can easily attach this file as a document and send it to the recipient.

– Now, ask the recipient to change the name image.pdf to image.jpg Using File Explorer.

Method 2: Create multiple photos as a ZIP

– For this method you need to open A file manager or other third-party compression tool Compress an entire folder of images to send.

-now Attach this ZIP As a document or share directly from the file manager.

– The receiver must decompress at the other end.

– The image size will not be reduced And therefore the quality will remain unchanged.

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