A 21-day lockdown has been announced across the country due to corona virus. People on WhatsApp and other social media are now spending more time than ever before. WhatsApp has taken a major step to handle the network container. Just as YouTube, Netflix has reduced the video's resolution to manage network congeston, WhatsApp has changed its status (WhatsApp Status) section. Under this change, users can no longer share a long status of more than 15 seconds in India. However, he can share many status of 15-15 seconds.
This change has been first spotted by WABetaInfo. These features have been released on both beta version and stable version. Android users can no longer share more than 15 seconds of video on their status (WhatsApp Status). As soon as you try to share a video of more than 15 seconds length, you will show videos sent to My Status will be trimmed to the first 15 seconds message on the app. However, there is no need to have more fuse. The video will not be trim for 15 seconds from the beginning or anywhere.
At present, There are more than 40 crore active users of Whatsapp in India. This instant messaging service is used by people these days to stay connected to you. The status video limit on Whatsapp was the first 30 seconds, which has now been reduced to half. Reducing the time of status video will reduce data consumption. Earlier, other video streaming platforms have also started streaming low quality videos on mobile networks to users.
There is no official announcement from Facebook at present to reduce the duration of Whatsapp's status video. According to wAbetainfo's report, the reason behind reducing the status video of the instant messaging app is to reduce users ' data consumption. It has reduced the status of the status only for Indian users.
How this WhatsApp Status Feature will Work
Rather, the user will be able to trim the 15-second portion of the video at their own discretion. The effect, as soon as you upload a video, it will be divided into several sections of 15-15 seconds. After which you can put the 15 seconds on the status you want to trim. For this you need to slide the box in the status and set it to the frame from which you want to trim the video. After doing so, you can share a 15-second clip on WhatsApp as a status.
Let us say that these steps on WhatsApp are currently taken only in India to reduce network coeston. To reduce traffic on server infrastructure. However, no official information has been shared on behalf of WhatsApp so far. Nor has WhatsApp issued any press release. Let's say that through WhatsApp's status feature, users can share photos, videos and tests, which last for 24 hours. After 24 hours, these statuses are automatically deleted.
Last week, the Cellular Operators Association of India had asked all OTT (over the top) platforms to put HD and HD plus content on streaming through mobile networks. After which these companies in India have started streaming SD quality videos through mobile network on their platforms.