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After HD photos, WhatsApp now lets you send HD videos as well. The new feature started rolling out recently and should be available to everyone over the next few days. You should get it with the latest update for the app.
WhatsApp has been long working on the ability to send photos and videos in HD quality. The Meta-owned messaging app added support for HD photos to the beta version of the app in early June. After a couple of months of beta testing, the feature rolled out publicly on Android and iOS last week.
Around that time, Meta said that it would soon add support for sending HD videos via WhatsApp. As promised, the feature is now here. It works the same way as for photos. Once available, you will see an HD button in the top toolbar when sending a video over WhatsApp. Tap on this button and the video will go through in higher quality with less compression. The recipient will also see an HD label on the video.
The latest WhatsApp update adds the ability to send HD videos
This feature is available for some of us here at Android Headlines. We can see that WhatsApp lets you send videos in 1280×720 resolution maximum. If your video is of higher resolution, the app will compress it to 720p. By default, videos shared via WhatsApp are compressed to 480p resolution. You must select the HD button every time before sending videos. Meta doesn’t let you make this a default behavior.
If you want to share full-quality photos and videos over WhatsApp, you can always do that by sending them as documents. The app doesn’t compress documents. However, media files are compressed by default to reduce the strain on servers. Compression also helps users save internet data and storage space on their devices. Higher-quality media have bigger file sizes and consume more data when sent over the internet.
Speaking of the size, WhatsApp shows the file size for each quality. You can compare the size of the compressed file to that of the HD quality before sending it. This is available for both photos and videos. If you use WhatsApp to communicate and share photos and videos with your friends and family, you might find this feature useful. You can click on the button below to download the latest version of the app from the Google Play Store.