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I’m Dutch and so live in a WhatsApp world. Still I lobbied my family hard to keep our family group in Messages. Reason being that we often share photos, and nothing ruins a nice photo as much as the insane compression and low resolution that WhatsApp applies.

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There's an option to send images in higher resolution these days.

I personally dislike getting full-resolution images in iMessage by default and wish there was an option to manually request the full-res one (the sender could just upload two versions, or maybe a progressively compressed one). It seems like the worst of both world (in that it still wipes metadata from the photos, last time I checked, making them annoying to save in my photo library).

As you’ll know when dealing with non-tech family, if it’s not the default it doesn’t exist But yes your idea of sending a low res placeholder and only downloading the full res on click sounds elegant.

You wanna share albums if you’re trying to give someone direct access to photos with metadata.

I expect the metadata scrubbing on message-sent images is a security thing.

There's now an `HD` button to send images at high resolution, and higher quality.

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