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texting quality, full size videos to iPhones

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1xsculler

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I don't want to use a 3rd party app but I do want to text videos from my S9+ to my family members all of whom use iPhones. When I text vids to iPhones they are received small and blurry. When I receive texted vids from iPhones they are small.
 
SMS and MMS text messaging is by nature a very low bandwidth form of communication, it's OK for low-resolutions images but anything that involves larger file sized media files will be automatically scaled down to transfer. You're much better off just uploading your photos and videos to whichever online storage service you use (Google Drive, SpiderOak, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.), get the sharable link for those files, and then just text that link to your recipients so they can download the same, full-sized media files on their end. They'll need to do the same when sending large file sized attachments to you. (... and if they complain about the extra steps involved that they don't need to do with other iMessage users is when it involves iMessage-to-iMessage the same file size restrictions to MMS messages don't apply to iMessages.)
 
svim said:
SMS and MMS text messaging is by nature a very low bandwidth form of communication, it's OK for low-resolutions images but anything that involves larger file sized media files will be automatically scaled down to transfer. You're much better off just uploading your photos and videos to whichever online storage service you use (Google Drive, SpiderOak, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.), get the sharable link for those files, and then just text that link to your recipients so they can download the same, full-sized media files on their end. They'll need to do the same when sending large file sized attachments to you. (... and if they complain about the extra steps involved that they don't need to do with other iMessage users is when it involves iMessage-to-iMessage the same file size restrictions to MMS messages don't apply to iMessages.)
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I am going to HATE switching to an iPhone but it sounds like I'm stuck as asking all of my family members, et al., i.e. children, grandchildren, siblings and friends to go through those extra steps just for my Android fetish will be a non starter. I am really ticked off about this!
 
1xsculler said:
I am going to HATE switching to an iPhone but it sounds like I'm stuck as asking all of my family members, et al., i.e. children, grandchildren, siblings and friends to go through those extra steps just for my Android fetish will be a non starter. I am really ticked off about this!
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Nothing you can do about that. iPhones lock iMessage to iPhones only. Androids can't access those servers to upload full size pictures to that so that iOS can receive them.
 
1xsculler said:
I am going to HATE switching to an iPhone but it sounds like I'm stuck as asking all of my family members, et al., i.e. children, grandchildren, siblings and friends to go through those extra steps just for my Android fetish will be a non starter. I am really ticked off about this!
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It's known as vendor lock-in or proprietary lock-in, something that Apple likes to do.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc.#Accusations_of_anti-competitive_behavior
 
rgn nod said:
you're using Samsung latest smart phone, have you ever tried link sharing?
This website from Samsung can help you how to do it (sending big files* from Samsung to other smart phone i.e. Iphone)
https://www.samsung.com/au/support/mobile-devices/what-is-link-sharing/
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According to that link, this is an Android only service:
"Link Sharing is only compatible for Android OS 6.0 (Marshmallow) and newer."
so while it is something to be noted for the rest of us here, not so much for the OP.
 
svim said:
According to that link, this is an Android only service:
"Link Sharing is only compatible for Android OS 6.0 (Marshmallow) and newer."
so while it is something to be noted for the rest of us here, not so much for the OP.
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Correct - thus, this reply goes for a Galaxy S9 plus forum which uses the newer android OS and not a response for all android OS.
 
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