Sharing pictures or image files directly on WhatsApp will compress them and reduce the resolution and its quality. The messaging app does this for the efficient transmission of data. While on a phone screen nothing changes much, the picture loses much of its finer details.
There is another way to send images without reducing the resolution. Another way to get this done is to submit the picture as a text that, will keep the resolution as it is.
Here we will see how to send photos in high-quality in the form of documents on WhatsApp. We have detailed the same for iOS and Android below.
For iOS Users
- In iOS, you can save your images to the Files application. You have to choose a folder and choose either an app installed in your phone or iCloud Drive.
- Just open the image and choose the WhatsApp contact to whom you need to send the file to.
- Now, choose Document instead of Photo and select the image file you want to share for Files.
- That’s it. The photo will be sent as an uncompressed file.
For Android Users
Firstly, to send high-quality and uncompressed photos on WhatsApp, you need to save the image with some other name. The process is quite simple on Android.
- Just rename the image file as .doc or .pdf from the file manager.
- Send the image as a Document rather than a Gallery file. If you don’t find the file, then you can browse for it under documents.
- When you send the file to a recipient as a document, you have to ask them to rename the image in their file manager to .jpg to see the uncompressed and original image.
