WhatsApp will finally let you send photos in HD Quality

After years of being limited to sharing low quality images, WhatsApp has now issued an upgrade that enables iPhone and Android users to exchange photographs through the messaging network in high resolution.

In order to conserve storage space and keep picture sharing quick over slow data connections, WhatsApp users used to automatically compress and lower the resolution of photographs they sent to 920 x 1280. After upgrading, they'll have the choice to share photos in "HD quality," which is equivalent to 3024 x 4032 resolution, to friends and family. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, announced the feature's release in a Facebook post.

The app's "HD" button is now present above the other picture editing options on the photo sharing screen in version 23.16.0. A pop-up that allows users to change from the default Standard Quality to HD Quality appears when they tap the HD button. All high resolution photographs are secured by WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption. Recipients of HD photos will notice an HD label in the corner of the image, indicating that they have received a higher quality version.

According to Meta, users with slow internet connections will receive photographs in Standard Quality and have the option to preserve that quality or upgrade to HD when that option is available. Through the next weeks, the new functionality will roll out internationally, and according to Meta, high definition video sending through WhatsApp will shortly follow.