Many photos can no longer be sent on Android
Since the update, it is now impossible to send any image (such as a photo taken by the phone) that is over 8MB.
Many modern phones produce photos this large, and there is no longer any fallback option to compress the image to a smaller file before sending.
Possible workarounds include:
1. Turn on "Low quality image mode" and force the phone to upload over mobile data. This is a bad solution and a terrible user experience.
2. Somehow crop or resize images manually first. This is a terrible, awkward process that most people do not know how to do.
3. Take all photos in lower resolution to begin with. This is awful, requires users to switch their entire camera app to low quality, does not work for already-taken photos, and most people do not know how to do it.
Every workaround is cumbersome and awful. Buying Nitro is not a viable option when someone is merely showing up to ask for help with something or merely uses the app casually, nor is it an elegant solution when the smaller image will almost always suffice anyway. The user does not want to send an extremely high-resolution photo: the user wants to send the photo *at all*.
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