One of the common uses of WhatsApp is to share photos. For convenience and immediacy, few consider using e-mail or other means for this purpose. It is understandable because, as I said, it can be done very quickly and without complications, just open a conversation with the recipient, select the images you want to send and that’s it, in a few seconds they will reach your mobile so that you can see them, store, share with third parties, etc.

There is only one problem, which is unfortunately unknown to most, and that is that the images are pre-compressed to be sent via WhatsApp. This is not important if the recipient only wants to see them on their mobile screen, as in this case this reduction in quality will be practically imperceptible. Now, if your intention is to print them, edit them digitally, or use them for other purposes where quality is important, then this will certainly make a difference.

This is a shame, of course, because it would be ideal to have the advantages offered by sending images via WhatsApp, but without the loss of quality that occurs with this operation. In this regard, it is true that for some time now the service has offered the option of choosing a higher or lower level of compression depending on the preferences of the user, who will now be in charge of deciding on the consumption he wants to implement. its internet connection. But in all cases compression occurs.

However, that seems to be about to change. As we can read in WABetaInfo, beta version 2.23.2.11 of WhatsApp for Android It has the function to send images without compression, with the original quality and size. However, they specify that it is currently under development, so it is not known when it will finally be operational and when it will subsequently begin to be deployed to all users of the service.

Even at this moment they have not been able to confirm whether this feature can also be used for videos, since WhatsApp uses the same technique on them, or if otherwise it will still be necessary to resort to other means for this type of content.. And I don’t know what you mean you think, but personally it seems to me that it would be logical for Meta, the owner of the service, to allow the user to choose and in any case determine the resulting quality with the lowest setting of two (or more, in the case of groups) participants in the conversation.