Did You Know WhatsApp Allows Up To 2GB File Sharing; Learn How To Send Large Videos, Audios And Images

WHATSAPP is among the popular apps for messaging and media exchanges. The Meta-owned platform is used widely to transfer files between users. However, in some cases, the size becomes an issue. Size limits for media like photos, videos and voice notes is 16MB. However, a user can upload these forms of media of over 16MB and up to 2GB via the method shared in the article.

 

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to upload large files of up to 2GB on WhatsApp.

Step 1: Head To WhatsApp on your Android handset. Open the chat menu of the user account you wish to share the file with.

Step 2: Click on the paper clip icon next to the camera icon on the right of the message bar.

Step 3: From the attachments option, tap on the 'Document' icon.

Step 4: Tap on 'Browse other docs...' option. Hit the menu icon (the three lines) on the top left. Tap on your device name from the menu.

Step 5: Now locate the file from the displayed folders.

Step 6: Hit 'Continue' if you are uploading a large file via mobile data. Tap send (the green icon) in the bottom right.

Quick Tip - For step 5, you can take help from the boxes on top n the folder menu. Images, Audio, Videos, Documents, Large files and This week are the available tabs in the menu. For instance, if you want to locate a video, select the 'Videos' button with the red icon. The phone will display only the supported video formats.

Users of the platform actively engage with their peers via different file transfers. Keeping this in mind, WhatsApp increased the file upload limit from 100MB to 2GB last year. The company recommends WiFi for seamless file upload. We tried the above steps on a 500MB video. The process successfully started uploading media in the chat.

To keep you posted, WhatsApp is testing a number of features in its app across device architectures. To name a few - a new official WhatsApp chat account, once-playable audio messages, video messages of up to 60 seconds, beta testing of the WhatsApp application on Mac and a revamped desktop app.