With a surge of users on its messenger app, Facebook has been working on updates to make the app more user friendly. With new emojis and gif file sending options they made the chat interesting. The feature that needed working on was the data sharing and particularly the photo and video sharing feature in high resolution and high quality.
The default resolution for images sent and received on Facebook Messenger was 2K. That’s just over 2 megapixels. Anything higher you tried to send someone would be compressed by Messenger before sending.
High res update to the messenger
Facebook has just increased the default image size up to 4K (over 8MP) so you can now send photos of much higher quality enabling you to conveniently send and share high quality images straight from the gallery.
If you wanted to send an image at a decent resolution before you would have had to use a photo link or send in an email, as most messaging service heavily compress your images that reduce the image quality and once it reaches the other party it losses its magic that high res images have.
The latest 4K offered by Messenger is up to 4,096 x 4,096 pixels per image, which is the maximum quality most of our smartphones natively shoot in nowadays. You can share the best quality images with your friends and family using the Facebook messenger app.
According to Facebook, 17 billion photos are sent through Messenger every month, so this is no small change. There should be no extra time added to the process of sharing photos, despite the increase in size.
Which is a big thing once you consider that high res images have high bite-size but to our surprise, Facebook will still send them high MB files at the same time.