• Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Now this makes sense, thank you. Garbage quality video and pictures are a so annoying. It seems to ruin an entire group chat if one of them is on an iPhone. I often have to wait until I see someone in person or have the. Send it through a different app for the video to work.

    I have yet to get a conversation to switch to Signal or something to avoid the potato quality videos

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      11 months ago

      Apple could fix this by uploading the photos to iCloud and sending a link. But improving the experience of SMS chats is not profitable, so they instead actively downgrade the experience.

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        11 months ago

        I always send an iCloud link for photos when I know that there’s someone who may not be using an iPhone. I’m not sure why others don’t. It’s especially useful when sending large numbers of pictures.

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      11 months ago

      Yea, this is a USA problem. Elsewhere everyone just uses a messaging app of their network’s choice.