WhatsApp Video Size Limit 2024: How to Send Large Videos on WhatsApp (2024)

Part 1: What is the Maximum Videos Size for WhatsApp

For example, an HD video of 30-40 sec will be around 18-20 MB while a great quality photo is only 1-2 MB or less. And even though our internet connection today is way much better that it was several years ago, it comes with a price, both in monetary and system resources.

• Photos, videos or voice messages: the maximum file size is 16MB.
• Documents: the maximum file size allowed is 100 MB.

Part 2: 3 Tricks to Overcome WhatsApp Video Size Limit

So how can you overcome the limitation? You can’t change the limit that WhatsApp set, but you can edit and reduce the file size of your video, split the video into several shorter parts with smaller size each, or use third-party cloud storage.

Trick 1: Using Video Editor App

If you are using an iPhone or Android, then you can go to Google store or App Store to download one of video converter to compress the video you want to share.

• For Android Phone:ActionDirector, Adobe Premiere Rush, FilmoraGo, Funimate, InShot, and more.
• For iOS Device:Horizon Camera, Adobe Premiere Clip, Pinnacle Studio Pro, Hyperlapse from Instagram, SloPro, iMovie, and more.

Then, what you need to do is to launch and select one of video you want to edit and compress, please remember the video duraton is 90 seconds to 3 minutes.

Trick 2: Using Online Video Editor

If your video file size is too large and then you can choose to edit the video on your computer. Of course, an online editor sounds good. Some of them provide free services. The benefit of the desktop video editor is that the power behind a desktop computer can support more complex video editing and finish the whole process faster. Let's take https://www.video2edit.com/ for exmaple.

• Firstly, open the website and choose "Compress Video".

• Then, you can choose file from your computer or enter the file URL, or choose file from Dropbox or Google Drive.

  
• The video format can be MP4, MOV, AVI, WEBM or other.
• Click "Start" to compress your video.

Trick 3: Sharing Links to WhatsApp

Another trick that you can try is to first upload the large file to a cloud storage and share the file link via WhatsApp. Let's take a look at Google Drive.

• Launch Google Drive and click the + icon from the top of left corner.

  
• Tap on the video for some time and few options will appear, then select the Copy Link option.
• Now share the link to the person you want to chat with.

Extra Tip: How to Recover Deleted Data from WhatsApp

So you can easily increase WhatsApp plus file size limits with many handy ways. And if you accidently lost valuable WhatsApp videos during the sending process? All you need is Tenorshare UltData WhatsApp Recovery. With this WhatsApp recovery software, you can get back lost or deleted WhatsApp chats including messages, videos, and photos easily from iOS and Android phones.

• Launch UltData adn choose "Recover Data from iOS Devices".

  

• Start to scan the data and then tick WhatsApp related options, or just select all, then tap on "Scan" to proceed.

  

• Now all scanned files are shown. To save time, you can select the deleted or lost data you need to recover. Then click "Recover to PC"

  

Now you can open the recovered file on your save path on your computer.

Conclusion

Nex time when you come accross the whatsapp file size limit issue, the possibel ways above could help you. As it's known, we cannot modify the WhatsApp itself, the only thing we can do is to compress the video or shre video links. If you also want to recover deleted WhatsApp data on Android phone during the process of sending videos, then you can try UltData for Android.