The popular messaging app WhatsApp, which boasts more than a billion monthly active users, is releasing a new update, version 2.23.2.11, through the Google Play Beta Program, Android Police reports.
This new update includes a new feature currently under development, enabling users to send photos in their original quality.
Sending Better Quality Photos
Currently, WhatsApp compresses all photos shared via the app, reducing their resolution and usability. Users who wish to share high-quality images with their friends and family may find this function very frustrating.
However, as seen in testing in WhatsApp's beta for Android 2.23.2.11, WhatsApp is now beginning to work on enabling sharing photos in their original quality without even any compression.
The quality of any photo sent can now be customized by users thanks to a new icon added to the drawing tool header as part of this update.
Before sending an image, users can change its quality to its original form, a handy feature. Users who want to share pictures of high quality without any reduction in resolution will have more options available to them as a result of this feature.
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WABetaInfo tells us that this feature will be included in a future update. However, the exact date of the rollout has yet to be announced. It is also unclear how this feature will work in practice, as WhatsApp still needs to provide details on how it will retain the original image quality.
Messaging Apps Doing it Better
In response to the increased competition in the market for messaging apps, WhatsApp has decided to enable the sharing of photos in their original quality.
Images sent through Telegram, one of WhatsApp's primary competitors, are automatically compressed, but users can share photos in their unaltered original quality. Users of Telegram already have access to this feature, which has proven to be quite popular with app users.
Because WhatsApp is currently implementing the same feature, users will soon have access to a greater variety of options when it comes to delivering high-quality images.
Message Yourself
WhatsApp has recently introduced a new feature called "Message Yourself." This feature allows users to send messages, notes, reminders, links, and photos to themselves across multiple devices.
Over the past couple of months, this feature has been slowly added to WhatsApp, and this week, it showed up in the release notes for the latest app update.
The Verge tells us that the "Message Yourself" feature is not a new invention from WhatsApp's parent company, Facebook, but rather a simple yet helpful tool for users to send quick notes and reminders to themselves.
This feature can benefit users who need to keep track of important information or tasks across multiple devices.
One of the essential advantages of this feature is that it allows users to easily send links, documents, or photos from one device to another.
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