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Meta says it’s fixing ‘HD’ photo sharing in Facebook Messenger

You could share 4K photos before, but now, they’re 4K-ier.

Facebook Messenger comms team representative Liz Sweeney clarified in an email to The Verge that 4K (specifically, 4,096 x 4,096 pixels per inch) shared photos were more compressed before, and how they looked was “dependent on the network conditions of both the sender and receiver.” Now, Sweeney says they won’t be as heavily compressed, and users will have a new “HD” button that enables 4K sharing. That’s up from the 25MB limit before, which should make for an easier time sharing videos, as they won’t need to be split up into smaller chunks before sending. I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to the first person who asks me for my Facebook Messenger QR code.

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