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Why WhatsApp Destroys Your Video Quality
WhatsApp compresses video aggressively when you send it inline. Pre-compress with Squash to keep quality and stay under the 16 MB limit.
Why does WhatsApp ruin my video quality?
When you send a video on WhatsApp, it gets re-compressed on their servers. Hard. The result: blurry, artifacted, unwatchable — especially on longer clips. The inline video limit is 16 MB, and WhatsApp's own compression makes it worse. If you pre-compress to the right specs, WhatsApp has less work to do and the result looks dramatically better.
What are the requirements?
Inline video limit16 MB
Document limit2 GB
Best formatMP4 (H.264 + AAC)
Recommended resolution1080p
How do I fix this?
Drop your video into Squash and select WhatsApp. Squash pre-compresses to under 16 MB with the exact specs WhatsApp expects, so their server-side compression has almost nothing left to degrade.
WhatsApp compression is free in Squash — no purchase required.
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