14 DAY TRIAL // Everybody uses WhatsApp these days, and it doesn’t happen just for the conversation capabilities. Not at all. WhatsApp is a service that excels in a wide variety of ways, and sending files between users is one of the features that comes in very handy to so many people out there.
As you probably know already, the Facebook-owned service comes with a limit of 100MB per file for each transfer. In other words, you can’t transfer any files that are larger than 100MB, and this is quite a drawback, especially because phones today can record videos in super-high-quality, therefore easily exceeding this size.
While WhatsApp already performs quick compression before sending multimedia content on the platform, it was pretty clear that increasing the file size limit was something that many users wanted.
And as it turns out, WhatsApp is finally ready to deliver this highly-anticipated file size increase, with WABetaInfo revealing that such a test is currently being conducted in Argentina.
Testing currently underway
WhatsApp apparently wants the new file size transfer limit to be no more, no less than 2GB, therefore allowing for very large documents and videos to be shared on the platform.
Worth knowing is that the test appears to be in its very early phases, as only a limited number of users in Argentina are currently allowed to transfer files so large. And of course, the Facebook company has remained completely tight-lipped on everything related to this feature, so nobody knows for sure if this change is indeed coming or WhatsApp is just running an experiment with a small set of users.
For the time being, there are many other ways to send larger files online, so if you want to get around the 100MB per file limitation, just use a file-sharing platform and then send the direct link to your contact. This isn’t necessarily the most convenient workaround, but at least, it’s a way to share large files with anyone out there.