The development team of WhatsApp It is testing a new function that will allow users to have a more complete management of automatic downloads carried out by groups and chats, since it will be possible for everyone to choose the quality of the multimedia content to download to your device. Thanks to this option you can decide whether to save photos and videos in high definition or in standard mode, with all the consequences that such a choice entails: in the first case the quality of the content will be favored, in the second the download speed and the lower amount of space occupied in memory by the file.
This means essentially that the users of the famous instant messaging app will have greater control, given that until now it has been allowed only to choose whether or not to activate the Automatic downloadwithout however having a say about the quality of the multimedia content to be saved on your smartphone. The novelty was identified by Wabetainfo’s experts within the Beta 2.25.12.24 version of WhatsApp for Android, available on the Google Play Beta Program.
How will it be possible to make this choice? When a user will send a photo or video in high qualitywhere this function is available and activated, the sender system will generate and also attach a version in standard quality of the same content. Due to end-to-end encryption, Whatsapp does not have the tools and authorizations to be able to change the quality of the multimedia files on the server, so it will be the device of those who send them to create both file versions before loading them on the server itself.
At this point the next phase will depend on the choice made by the recipient: if the choice falls on the “standard quality“, The system will independently download the” lighter “file between the two saved on the server on your mobile.
Obviously this option will only apply as regards automatic rescues from groups and chats: this means that the user can “force” even the download of the high quality version of the “standard” file already downloaded, provided that it is still available on WhatsApp servers, since these content are kept for a limited time. Obviously in the event that the user has disabled the automatic download option, this function will not be available.