hey this is paul from wondershare mobile trans and have you ever had problems while you want to send
files over whatsapp so sometimes what you'll do is you'll click to send a file and whatsapp will
tell you it's too big and sometimes the most important files that we need to send are over
whatsapp file size limit so in this video today our plan is to show you a couple of methods on
how you can get around that file size limit that whatsapp puts in to stop you sending large files
whatsapp implements a file size limit restriction when you want to send files using whatsapp
directly and annoyingly for a lot of users that file size limit is just 100 megabytes which means
that is just not great because sometimes some of the most important files that we want to send
are over that 100 megabyte limit whether that be photos videos or you've got some documents
you need to send in a work whatsapp group and there is a reason to why it is limited to 100
megabytes and that is because of the billions of people that are using whatsapp every single day
so it has to restrict file sizes because when you send a file it goes to the whatsapp servers
first and then goes over to the chat and if millions of people were sending gigabytes of
files the whatsapp servers would be down and nobody could chat at all and of course this
is a little bit annoying but there are ways that you can actually indirectly send larger
files on whatsapp using your android and your iphone and let's show you both methods to make
sure you can send those bigger files so first of all let's just start by using your android
phone and what you'll need to do is go into your files app and
find the files that you want to send over on whatsapp
once you've found that file then just select it and then in the corner you should see a
share button or at the bottom of the screen just select that and then select save to google drive
at this point your file will start to upload to google drive and it shouldn't take too long to
do depending on the file size and when it is done you then need to go into google drive and select
that file that was just uploaded here you need to click copy link and then once you've done that
that means it is saved to your clipboard ready to share on whatsapp and the next step is to grab
your android phone head into whatsapp and find the contact that you want to send that file to
paste and send and it is really that simple you've now bypassed that 100 megabyte file
size limit that whatsapp implement into whatsapp so all they have to do is go into google drive and
download it but if you're on an iphone i can hear the question already can you do this on
iphone and the answer is yes so let me show you how to do that as it's just slightly different
for this you need to head into the drive app on iphone and select the plus icon at the bottom
right hand side of the screen here you can select to upload and then you can pick to upload from
your camera roll or the files app that is on your iphone once it's uploaded you then just
need to go and find the file and then do the same as earlier which is select it and then
copy the link then on your iphone head into whatsapp and then copy that link into the chat
just like you did on an android phone and now they have access to that google drive file this seems
really simple but some people just haven't thought of doing it and with this method that means you
can now bypass that 100 megabyte file limit that whatsapp implements into its app and the good
news is that this works well for any files at all so whether that be videos pictures documents or
even apk files so you can send games to your friends through whatsapp using google drive
the next method we have for you means you don't need to use multiple apps and is actually very
quick so what we're going to suggest for this one is a piece of software that you may have heard of
before called mobile trans mobile trans is an app that moves files large or small from one device to
another and you can use it to back up your files to a computer laptop or you can move files from an
android to an ios device in just minutes the good thing about mobile trans is it is nice and easy
it's simple and it can be done in just a couple of clicks so let me show you how this all works
you need to download mobile trans first of all and you can do this by checking the description
below for a link that takes you to the official website when it's installed and ready to go
go into the app and select the phone transfer option once done you will get a prompt to connect
both phones to a computer using a usb cable and just make sure here that the cable you're using
works well or the transfer might get interrupted when they're connected you will then be able to
select the files that you want to send over and this can be anything from contacts to pictures
to videos then once you've selected the file types just hit start you just sit back and wait for the
transfer to be completed and this can take a couple of minutes but that is all depending
on the file size and the data and the amount of stuff that you want to send over from one phone to
another mobile trends also supports other devices and data transfers such as ipad ipod iphones
androids and as well if you have one windows phone and using mobile trends is completely safe
because your data is stored on your personal computer and not on servers which means that
no third parties have access to your data if that is something that they were looking for
so you know it's safe we hope this video has helped you out just a little bit now so you
can send bigger files on whatsapp and avoid that 100 megabyte problem which a lot of people have
had using whatsapp and if it has helped you out why not let us know in the comments below and of
course if you need help with anything to do with whatsapp let us know in the comments and we will
make a video and see if we can help you out just a little bit and why not give the video a like
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