How to send media, contacts, or location
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Send photos, videos, documents, stickers or contacts
- Open an individual or group chat.
- Click , then click:
- Photos & Videos to select photos or videos from your computer. You can send up to 100 photos or videos at once and add a caption to each photo or video. Alternatively, you can drag and drop a photo or video directly into the text field.
- Camera to take a photo with your computer's camera.
- Document to select documents from your computer. Alternatively, you can drag and drop a document directly into the text field. The maximum allowed document size is 2 GB.
- Contact to send the information of contacts saved in your phone's address book over WhatsApp. Select the contact you'd like to attach.
- Click to send.
Note:
- To adjust the quality of an attached photo, click > Standard quality or HD quality > Done before clicking.
- To share a link, copy the link you'd like to share and paste it into the chat.
- For users with a faster internet connection, the default video size limit is 100MB and 720p resolution.
- For users with a slower internet connection, the default video size limit is 64MB and 480p resolution.
- Status videos have a maximum duration of 30 seconds.
- HD media isn’t currently available for status updates or profile pictures.
- For documents, the maximum file size allowed is 2 GB.
- High audio sample rate or professional cameras may be unsupported.
Send a voice message
- Open an individual or group chat.
- Click and start speaking into your computer's microphone.
- Once finished, click to send the voice message.
Note: While recording a voice message, you can click 
to temporarily stop the recording and 
to resume it. To cancel and delete your recording, click 
.
Save a photo or video to your computer
- Click the photo or video you want to save.
- Click or. If prompted, click Save.
