Have you ever taken an amazing photo, only to have it lose a little bit of something when you send it to your friends? Many messaging services compress images to reduce bandwidth consumption. While useful in practice, it makes it more difficult to send images at full resolution, but that could soon be a thing of the past. Apparently, Google Messages You are gaining the ability to send images without losing quality at all.
In an APK analysis, the Android Authority team discovered a hidden function within the code that will allow you to choose the resolution at which you want to send a photo. If this sounds a little familiar, that’s because WhatsApp It has the same function.
The two options appear in a toggle between HD and HD+ in the Message Photo Picker. If you select HD, images will be sent faster but with reduced quality. If you send the image in its original quality (HD+), it will use more data and may take a few seconds longer to process. The option should appear for any conversations in Google Messages that you use RCS.
Google hasn’t made an official statement about the feature, but considering it was found in the latest beta version of the Messages app, it’s probably not too far off. This update will make it easier to send family photos back and forth, especially as the holidays approach. If you’re sending a silly meme, maybe lower the resolution a bit, but when you’re trying to share a photo of your nephew in his first Halloween costume, you want every pixel you can handle.
RCS has caught on and spread like wildfire, resulting in many third-party messaging services, such as Verizon Messages and Samsung Messages, encouraging users to switch to Google Messages.
