It's on apple servers. They don't want to use a ton of storage on something they are giving you for free
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Can someone check to see if iMessage compresses photos/videos yet?
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It's on apple servers. They don't want to use a ton of storage on something they are giving you for free
Uncompressed picture message is the sole reason I use iMessages.
It's not like we don't have enough storage space or limited data connection speed these days.
It's not like we don't have enough storage space or limited data connection speed these days.
That doesn't solve any problem, that makes matters worse. That turns a 500KB JPEG into a 1.3MB PNG.
iMessage still compressed my image file. I sent a 22MB photo through iMessage via WiFi and it was compressed to less than 2MB.
OP: you're going in circles. You aren't going to convince other people that your point is right.
Yes it would be nice to have an option. No Apple probably isn't going to give us the option. Complaining about it on MacRumors isn't going to change anything.
Apple gives you 5GB for your iCloud storage. If you want more you can pay for it.
Yes it would be nice to have an option. No Apple probably isn't going to give us the option. Complaining about it on MacRumors isn't going to change anything.
Apple gives you 5GB for your iCloud storage. If you want more you can pay for it.
I didn't even come here to persuade people that compressed photos are more efficient in an IM scenario, I just wanted to know if they're compressing photos in iOS8 and got my answer fairly quickly.
Everyone else here is arguing for something that they've already got...which is pointless...
You still don't get it?
This.
Yet, you're still going on. More whining about what you think you're entitled to when you purchase a device. If you don't like what's given to you, find an alternative.
And then you continue to argue about the technicalities of compression. You aren't getting anywhere(and most likely, neither am I). Like I said, having the option would be great. But since we don't have the option, I prefer the current functionality over your suggestion that they should be compressed.
I would like to set a retention policy on all iMessages that any messages older than X (7, 14, or 30, chosen by the user) will be automatically deleted from the phone. In light of this not ever becoming an option, wouldn't the snapchat like feature help or does it only auto delete photos taken from the camera whilst in iMessage?
Yes, because people seemed to be misinformed about what compression means.
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I think this is actually a feature in iOS8, along with the ability to delete all photos in a thread.
Ok. Just tested iMessage again. When I sent the 22MB file, it was a TIFF file. iMessage converted to a JPG file which compressed it to a file < 2MB in size. I sent a 10MB JPG image via WiFi. The image stayed at 10MB on the recipients iPhone running iOS 7.1.1. No conversion or compression which is good news for us who prefers no compression during transit through iMessage.
Can someone check to see if iMessage compresses photos/videos yet?
LOL... Not quite. Image quality will be difficult to examine on the small screens of a smartphone but it would be nice to have the images unmolested. I have friends and family who may want to use an image I captured as a cropped wallpaper on a smartphone or computer or print the image on canvas. That when an untouched image is nice to have.
LOL... Not quite. Image quality will be difficult to examine on the small screens of a smartphone but it would be nice to have the images unmolested. I have friends and family who may want to use an image I captured as a cropped wallpaper on a smartphone or computer or print the image on canvas. That when an untouched image is nice to have.
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People send me text based images (for example maybe textbook page) so uncompressed images are very much appreciated.
I get photos from coworkers and need them uncompressed. I have to instruct people all the time not to compress them in Email attachments as wells. It nice to send my wife pictures when I travel that also for nice quality for her to view on her iPhone 5 or iPad 4.
Until iOS 8 goes gold with a final feature set I'm not getting my hopes up. It's still beta so subject to change.
Nevertheless, it's still a ways off from "not ever becoming an option" at this point given that at the very least it's much more likely that it will be an existing option (as it is an existing one in iOS 8 betas).
I love uncompressed photos and videos for the better quality. This is one feature that is much better than Android. I HATE seeing crappy MMS videos that Android friends try to send me.
I am a professional photographer, I hate when I send my photos to clients and they upload the photo from their Android phone. The photo becomes extremely pixelated.
Yes exactly like that. Which is why I can't understand why anyone would WANT to compressed photos and videos. I actually did a video tutorial on the difference on how video MMS is handled between iMessage and standard messaging.
On Android devices the video wouldn't send and gave an error message stating the "file was too large" or it wouldn't simply send it. These were 10 second videos. Android hardware has basically outgrown the standard messaging that's built in. Most have to upload to 3rd party sources just to show a "quick video".
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Simple solution would bet to just turn off iMessage and use regular texting. Problem solved.