Messenger Now Supports 4K Photo Sharing: Here’s What It Means

Meta has made a major improvement to its 4K photo sharing feature on Messenger that most of you might not know about. The platform originally launched the option to share HD photos in 2017 but Meta says you can now share HD photos on Messenger.

Wait.. what does that mean? The company says that HD stands for 4K which is the actual 4K quality we see these days. So, what did Messenger support for 7 years? Earlier, 4K quality depended on your network quality and was also compressed for faster sharing, the company said in the report. But the new incarnation of HD photo sharing on Messenger is the real deal, which means, no compression and you just have to tap on the HD button, like what people can do on WhatsApp these days to send photos in high resolution. If you don’t enable the HD button before sharing a photo, the default resolution for photo sharing will be 2K quality.

It’s funny that Meta took 7 years to fix the feature on Messenger but the timeline also suggests its choice to make the feature available on WhatsApp first and then roll it out to other apps in its ecosystem. The sharing upgrade on Messenger doesn’t end there. You can now share files of up to 100MB on the app, which is 4 times more than the 25MB limit, but still much less than the 2GB sharing limit on WhatsApp. Messenger will also get a sharing album feature, which seems like a dated edition but it’s finally here. Several features on Messenger will be rolled out in the coming weeks.