WhatsApp is a very practical messaging app for sending messages, but if we’re going to focus on sending files, it’s still in the Stone Age: the maximum file size allowed is 100 MBlast month the app started testing sending files up to 2GB in Argentina.

When you send a file on WhatsApp, a progress bar is shown while the file is being sent – and the same at the recipient when it’s downloaded – but nothing more. According to WaBetaInfo, WhatsApp is coming soon estimated time to download a filea good indication that the app has global plans for sending large files.

Shipment 3, 2, 1…

WhatsApp allows you to send files up to 100MB space; Whether this can be considered a large file today is a controversial figure. What is clear is that with the speed of Internet connections today, sends usually take no more than a few seconds. To be aware of how the shipment (or reception) is going, WhatsApp includes a circular progress bar this acts as a button to cancel the download.

This progress bar has been helping us approximate when sending a file will complete as it fills up, but if we take that into account WhatsApp tests 2GB posts, the bar may be insufficient. A 2GB file is undeniably large and can take hours to send.

This is where the new indicator comes in. how much time is left for a post to complete, along with the exact percentage, so you don’t need to guess by the progress bar. According to WaBetaInfo, the app enables this new data in beta versions of WhatsApp for Android, iOS and Windows, though only for some users.

This expected change reach all users in the futureIt makes sending files, especially large ones, a little more enjoyable, saying that increasing the maximum file size up to 2GB may be more than a localized test, but we’ll have to wait to confirm.

via | WaBetaInfo