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It's equally frustrating for iPhone users. iMessage sends and receives and full, beautiful quality. Meanwhile an Android user will send a photo and it comes thr
by mostlysimilar 4y ago
It's equally frustrating for iPhone users. iMessage sends and receives and full, beautiful quality. Meanwhile an Android user will send a photo and it comes through with about 10 pixels total. Don't even bother with video it's not worth trying, impossible to watch.
- TSUTiger 4y agojust wanna point out here, there are limitations to the size/length of videos and even the pictures sometimes get downscaled to the other imessage user
- mrguyorama 4y agoBut apple seemingly purposely sends 100x100 px videos to non iMessage contacts. The phone can handle more. My step mom once sent me 50 full pictures in one legacy EMS message. It worked just fine. Apple is purposely handicapping things and I don't believe for a single second any of their excuses. The rest of the phone industry has no problem texting videos and pictures.
- TSUTiger 4y agoI wouldn't doubt it... I think EMS message size limitation is higher than MMS, but iPhones decode it differently. Even iPhone <> iPhone compresses the image/video
- Sunspark 4y agoTo be fair, received videos from iPhone are extremely low resolution and blocky. Pictures are better, but still downscaled. Google Messages has worked around this issue a bit by allowing links to videos in Google Photos to be sent instead of some sort of pixelated MMS garble. It will be interesting to see if the day eventually comes when legislation is introduced to mandate an open messaging standard. They did it for USB-C chargers.