Whether or not you’ve an iPhone or an Android, your smartphone probably takes nice images. That is why, in 2024, there is no motive why your high-quality photographs ought to seem like crap once you ship them to family and friends. Completely different messages platforms deal with this compression in another way: iMessage and RCS, for instance, permit you to ship high-quality photographs by default, whereas SMS notoriously crushes the standard of your images.
On the subject of chat apps, nevertheless, all of it will depend on the developer. WhatsApp lastly added an HD photograph possibility for sending high-quality photographs on the platform final 12 months. So, it’s kind of of a shock to see Meta’s different in style messaging service, Messenger, simply obtain this characteristic as nicely.
Fb Messenger’s new options
The corporate introduced the change on Tuesday, alongside just a few comparable, helpful options. Sadly, there aren’t any particulars about how high-quality these photographs will probably be, or how a lot compression continues to be utilized. If the characteristic works like WhatApp’s, there’s probably some compression concerned, which implies sending “HD photographs” is not an possibility for sharing uncompressed variations of your images with your mates.
Then again, Meta additionally introduced that you would be able to now ship recordsdata as much as 100 MB out of your telephone. That is additionally an analogous characteristic to WhatsApp, and it now turns into one of the simplest ways to ship photographs of their full high quality to your contacts on Messenger.
Additionally introduced on Tuesday is a brand new shared albums characteristic: When you choose a number of images out of your chat composer, you will now see the choice to Create album. If you have already got an album, you will have the choice so as to add to that album right here as nicely. Lastly, you will now obtain a brand new QR code you need to use to shortly add new contacts on Messenger. To make use of it, go to Settings and faucet the QR code icon within the prime left.
The right way to ship high-quality photographs in Fb Messenger
To make use of Meta’s new HD photograph possibility, select a photograph from the chat composer, then be certain to hit the HD toggle within the prime proper. You possibly can ship a number of images in HD without delay.
Nevertheless, to ship an uncompressed photograph, you will need to ship it as a file. As soon as the characteristic rolls out to you, you will discover it by hitting the (+) within the chat composer, then from the file icon on the left facet of the menu bar. Hit Select file, then choose the photograph you need to ship. Relying in your telephone, you could want so as to add the photograph to a file administration app in your gadget earlier than it will work.
