Why is it that when a video is sent from Android to iPhone and vice versa, the quality is extremely reduced?

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It’s always seemed weird to me that photos seem to be the same quality as the original (or very close) when sending to and from the same devices. Thank you in advance!

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Anonymous 0 Comments

iPhone to iPhone messaging uses apples iMessage service (blue bubbles). It users special computers to process the images and videos and sends them to the other device at original quality. It can do this because it uses the internet. Android phones do not have iMessage so they have to use SMS and MMS. They work by connecting to your carriers cell tower and straight to the other person’s phone which means it had to be compressed to travel that way.

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