A few weeks after the official announcement, WhatsApp has finally completed the rollout of the HD photo and video sharing option to all users.
The new support had been available to beta testers all this time and now is available to everyone. Interested users can share HD-quality photos and videos with their recipients or in Standard resolution as usual. Update the app to see this option.
WhatsApp HD Media Support
For a long time, WhatsApp has been compressing the media(photos and videos) shared through it’s platform, frustrating users who want them to be shared in their original resolution. Though they created a workaround of sharing media through document format, they’re still unreadable until downloaded.
Observing this hassle, WhatsApp finally made a native support to share photos and videos in HD quality, last month. The option appears in the share menu after you select an image or video to send, as a “HD” button at the top of your screen(to the left of the crop tool).
Selecting it will ask you to choose between “Standard Quality” or “HD Quality“. Though you select the HD option, WhatsApp will still compress the media to an extent, but not as much as the current standard compression. And if you don’t choose the HD mode while sharing media, WhatsApp will send it in the Standard resolution by default.
Media received in HD quality will bear a HD tag at the bottom left to determine so. This option had been available to beta testers all this time but WhatsApp has now confirmed to The Verge that it’s finally available for everyone.
If you don’t see this option, update the app and check again. A similar feature has been available on rival messengers like Telegram, Signal and iMessage, for a long time.
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