Cool! I didn't know that this is possible. Need to try this method of sending large video with my Android

what's the video format, MP4 or??

Please check the type of file is it .dat .divx mp4 mov wmv avi mkv

Wow, it worked perfectly

Thanks👍

Please could you DM me the solution? It's be much appreciated thanks

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It's zipped so you'll need to install WinZip or 7zip or similar.

probably easier to use sharing service, try https://rapidfiletransfer.com

Because with the apps you mentioned the user is going to download the file to view it, I don't think that's what happens with emails

Each service sets its own limit. Webmail services often have it set to like 25 MB, which will only fit short videos. If you're trying to use MMS, your carrier's limit for that is often tiny and can fit single images but not videos.

id you manage to fix this?

I suppose you've checked Whatsapp permissions? Maybe camera and/or album have been removed from the permissions for some reason?

I turned my phone off and on again (like fully off) and then it worked again

Same and I can’t turn it on on my phone in settings

The video size limit as well. I’ve had family members whom I’ve painfully convinced to install and use signal to just drop it after a while since they couldn’t send videos as they would normally with WhatsApp. The issue is basically videos that exceed one min or two. And it doesn’t even give you a specific error message, just says error sending and people keep hitting the retry button endlessly without knowing it will never work. It sucks BADDD.

I’m even a contributor and after years I basically see no new feature added. For instance why the fuck doesn’t the iOS app allow me to select all media files to delete at once???? Why??? I need to select EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY FUCKING IMAGES manually because these developers can’t put a “select all” button which would take me 10 min to implement if I was familiarised with the code. But HEY DO YOU WANT STORIES? Because I can give you a stories feature that literally NO ONE asked for. Jesus Christ on heavens.

I love this app and what it stands for but I cannot understand for the life of me why it isn’t at this point an already an WhatsApp killer with all its features.

What on earth is everyone doing sending 2GB files through chat apps? There are modern ways to send large files: you upload to a cloud storage (use e.g. ProtonDrive if you have privacy concerns) and send a link. Not through a chat app. How many 2GB files do you need to send every day, and how many do you think you *can* send before most of your contacts' phones clog up?

Also, comparing with Telegram is a non-starter as all messages and files sent via Telegram are stored effectively plaintext on the Telegram servers, which is a far cry (like another galaxy far) from Signal's model.

Signal never positioned itself as an "alternative to Whatsapps and Telegram." It predates both, and has long been the only truly secure encrypted messenger for human rights, journalists, and speech. I first learned of Signal when Edward Snowden suggested it as an alternative to unencrypted text communications, iMessage (Apple keeps a copy of your decryption key to hand over with or without a warrant: read the iOS privacy policy), and spyware like FB Messenger.

Your messaging history, if you choose to save it and back it up, isn't stored on an external server whatsoever. It's only stored on your device. If you send 2GB files, you're putting 2GB on the recipient's phone that can only be removed if they delete the message. WhatsApp & Telegram both use remote servers to store your data. Servers get breached and companies get subpoenaed to hand over user data. If there's no data hoarded from the users, there's nothing to hand over. That's the principal behind Signal. Now, this once beautiful dependable app is so unstable I can't even get it to launch on Android for the past 6 months, completely losing access altogether as updates fail to fix it, all because the WhatsApp mass exodus users expect useless features most people do not need & will not use.

You can't text someone a 2GB video, now can you. Your mobile carrier compresses every photo and video you send. Signal, like the rest, also compresses files you send for speed & low data usage footprint. There are also issues brought about when sending a huge file using encryption. A video file can't be broken into smaller data packets and rebuilt on the recipient's end. Just share a link from cloud storage to send the large full resolution 2GB video, or simply compress the video to the max supported file size prior to sending. If you don't care about encryption, you can send it using a diff messaging app — but understand it's still gonna massively compress the file, it's just not gonna "warn" you before hand. Again, max supported file size is because of encryption.

You've gotten all the features you've wanted at the expensive of app stability, you can't seriously be asking Devs to switch to less secure encryption just to send bloated files — because that's what you're actually requesting rn. Signal doesn't store your data and files on it's own cloud servers, like Telegram does. Evenso, Telegram still compresses photos and videos before sending them. High quality compression takes time & processing power, which would require processing your images/video on their own server. I don't want my photos & videos living on an external server just to provide a frictionless experience for users who don't care about encryption, privacy, nor know how this app fundamentally differs from other messaging apps that are not "competitors."

Signal is a non-profit — they don't need to solicit users. Users seek out Signal for privacy & security. That's it. So please, download a video compression app, or send the video file link via Drive, Dropbox, iCloud — whatever cloud service you already use.

The only way Signal can meet the demand you're requesting is by doing one of the following:

1. Compromise it's own encryption
2. Invest in servers in order to store copies of your files in order to remotely compress them for you
3. Become a Telegram clone & move absolutely everything but the cached data, off your device & on to its own cloud service (but without the financing of a billionaire Oligarch living in Qatar).

My wife is having the same issue. They must have made some changes recently to the way videos are compressed and that's what's causing the problem.

Not sure what users are supposed to do until a fix is applied lol

Same here. s23u, probably a shitty WA update and a lot more shitty QA and degredation teams.

Mine is v2.25.9.78, please write your vers as well so we can pinpoint who needs to be fired

I'm having the same issue. Super frustrating 😤

same issue on my s25u

I am having the same issue today. Sending videos made on my camera itself. Once received. Video is glitchy for recipient. They sent it back, it is glitchy. Viewing original in gallery is fine. Pain in the bum. Everyone thinks its my s25u but I think its a whatsapp glitch