WhatsApp is the most popular mobile chat app, which allows you to send media such as photos and videos in addition to text messages. WhatsApp does lower the quality of the photos sent, however, in order to save data and to be able to send media faster. However, this will soon change and you will be able to send photos in original quality.
This discovered the source WABetaInfo. They found a new gear icon that we see on the screenshot below. When the source clicked on this icon, they were given the option to send photos without loss of quality. When this option will be rolled out to all users is still unclear.
WhatsApp is somewhat behind the competition in this area. For example, sending photos in the original quality has been possible with Telegram for quite some time. Since 2021, WhatsApp has given the option to choose between sending photos in high or low quality. However, when you select high quality, photos are still compressed. This leaves you with a quality of about 80 percent.
via [AW]
