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The latest news from WhatsApp indicates that the sending of huge files is about to reach everyone

WhatsApp is a very practical messaging application to send messages, but if we focus on sending files, it is still in the Stone Age: the maximum file size allowed is 100 MB although last month the app began testing the sending of files of up to 2 GB, in Argentina.

When you send a file on WhatsApp, a progress bar is shown while the file is being sent – and the same on the receiver, when it is downloaded – but not much else. According to WaBetaInfo, WhatsApp will soon begin to indicate the estimated time to download a file a good indication that the app has global plans for sending large files.

The shipment will arrive in 3, 2, 1…

WhatsApp allows you to send files of up to 100 MB of space, a figure that today is debatable if it can be considered a large file or not. What is clear is that, with the speeds of Internet connections today, sends generally take no more than a few seconds. So that you are aware of how the shipment (or reception) is going, WhatsApp includes a circular progress bar which doubles functions as a button to cancel the download.

This progress bar has been helping us for years to calculate approximately when a file will finish sending as it fills up, but if we take into account that WhatsApp is testing 2 GB shipments, the bar may be insufficient. A 2 GB file is undeniably large and can take hours to send.

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That’s where the new indicator comes in. how much time is left for a shipment to complete, accompanied by the exact percentage of it, so you don’t have to guess according to the progress bar. According to WaBetaInfo, the app is activating this new data in the beta versions of WhatsApp for Android, iOS and Windows, although only for some users.

It is expected that this change reach all users in the future by making sending files a little more pleasant, especially large files, and tells us that the maximum file size increase to up to 2 GB could be more than a localized test, although we will have to wait to confirm it .

Via | WaBetaInfo

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