{"id":196621,"date":"2022-07-11T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T09:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=196621"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:35:33","slug":"whatsapp-boosting-file-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-boosting-file-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is boosting its file-sharing capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve recently been tracking the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.en.softonic.com\/articles\/telegram-premium-features-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Telegram\u2019s new premium subscription<\/a> service including revealing all the features and the price. One of the new features boosted the file-sharing capabilities up to 4 GB per file. It was interesting to note that not long after that, WhatsApp announced it was boosting its max <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/articles\/whatsapp-support-file-sizes-2gb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sharing file size from 100 MB to 2 GB<\/a>, matching the now standard offering of <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Telegram<\/a>. Well now, it looks like <strong>WhatsApp is further improving its file-sharing capabilities<\/strong> by adding a simple update that will come in handy. Let\u2019s check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"WhatsApp\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto\/p\/cc03a0ea-96d0-11e6-9905-00163ed833e7\/1398466786\/whatsapp-icon.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">WhatsApp<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An update has been spotted in the current <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-is-working-on-supporting-captions-for-documents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhatsApp Desktop beta<\/a> that will help users who like to send files or who receive a lot of files to better organize their workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WhatsApp beta users on the Desktop version of the app have spotted that now, <strong>whenever they share a file<\/strong> across the app, they get the opportunity to<strong> add a caption to the file<\/strong>. The feature works like when you send an image. You select the image you want to send and then WhatsApp shows you a preview window with <strong>a message box at the bottom where you can type a message<\/strong> relating to the image. This is how it will work with the document captions too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is only a small update, but it will boost the productivity of people who use WhatsApp for professional purposes or just generally anybody who sends files across the app. Being able to add a caption to a file is <strong>like being able to add a filename or search term<\/strong> that you can type in any time you want to pull it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you add this to the fact that WhatsApp has boosted the size of the files you can send up to 2 GB and all of a sudden you start to see WhatsApp as a decent file-sharing service on top of being the world\u2019s most popular messaging app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As this new feature is still in the beta testing stage, we can\u2019t give you an update on when you should be able to expect it on regular versions of WhatsApp. Stick with us though, and we will keep you up to date with all the <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.en.softonic.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest WhatsApp news<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve recently been tracking the development of Telegram\u2019s new premium subscription service including revealing all the features and the price. One of the new features boosted the file-sharing capabilities up to 4 GB per file. It was interesting to note that not long after that, WhatsApp announced it was boosting its max sharing file size &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-boosting-file-sharing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WhatsApp is boosting its file-sharing capabilities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":196625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-196621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323548,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196621\/revisions\/323548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196621"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=196621"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=196621"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=196621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}