Signal beta lets users send images in 12-megapixel resolution

The 5.11.0 beta version of Signal allows users to send high-resolution images to each other. For this, the chat app introduces a new menu to set the quality of an image.

By default, images are still sent with about a 2-megapixel resolution, but optionally this can be increased to ‘4k’, can be seen in the update description on APKMirror. That turns out to be a 12-megapixel resolution. It is unknown when the feature will come to the stable version of Signal.

Android Police has tested the feature and shows that when sending an image, users can choose between standard or high quality. The site used an image with a resolution of 6944×9248 pixels and file size 11.6MB to test it. In standard quality, Signal made an image of this with a resolution of 1201×1600 pixels and a file size of 204KB. The high-quality variant has a resolution of 3075×4096 pixels and a size of 1.4MB.

Signal isn’t the first chat service to let users send higher quality images. Telegram allows users to send full-size images. In WhatsApp, higher resolution images can be sent when users send them as documents.