Re: Why are iPhone videos clear when sent to iPhones but blurry when sent to Android?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: Why are iPhone videos clear when sent to iPhones but blurry when sent to Android?
Date	2024-05-17 16:39 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2024-05-17, Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg wrote on 17 May 2024 14:15:01 GMT :
>
>> Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
>>> Half my family is on Android, the other half iOS, so whenever the iPhone
>>> users send a video through their text mechanism, it shows up clear for
>>> their iPhone recipients but super blurry for their Android recipients.
>>>  <https://i.postimg.cc/cLBNKJb7/fuzzy.jpg>
>>> 
>>> Why?
>> 
>>   I'm sure the iPhone users don't send the video "through their text
>> mechanism", but through their *messaging* app, probably called
>> 'Messages', and using the iMessage messaging platform.
>> 
>>   Your screenshot mentions MMS, so on the Android side the video is
>> received as a MMS message, hence the appalling 'quality'.
>> 
>>   You get a MMS message, because Apple hasn't implemented iMessage on
>> Android, so seeing a non-iMessage recipient, Apple's Messages/iMessage
>> has no other choice then to convert the video to a crappy MMS message.
>
> Thanks to Tyrone, Carlos & Frank (and even to Jolly Roger) for explaining
> why the new baby videos from this particular grandchild are so blurry.
>
> I bought my grandaughter her iPhone as I give phones as gifts (and I even
> have an old iPhone that I'm going to gift to my great grandchild when he's
> old enough to use a phone since the family is all Apple, 100%).
>
> As you noted, they're using their default messaging app just as I'm using
> my default messaging app, and I appreciate that you used the proper wording
> since the app is called "Messages" but the system is referred to as
> "iMessage" and that you explained to my satisfaction what probably is
> happening (which I would agree with). 
>
> I wasn't aware "where" the conversion of the video to "crappy" happened
> though, because the Apple recipients don't see the short video as crappy. 
>
> Just the Android recipients.
>
> So thanks for letting me know the conversion probably happens at the Apple
> iMessaging server for the senders' Messages app login into Apple servers.
>
> Much appreciated.

You're both wrong. There is no "conversion", and MMS messages aren't
sent through the iMessage service. It's amazing this has to be explained
like you're a five year old, but so be it: The iPhone is a cellular device as
well as an internet device. As such, it has the capability to check with
Apple's iMessage service to see if a recipient is a user that is logged
into the iMessage service. If so, the message is sent through iMessage.
If not, the message is sent through the cellular service as an SMS/MMS.
Cellular providers require MMS messages to be reduced in quality as a
way to reduce cellular data use, which is why videos are degraded when
sent over the cellular service. That's it - no "conversion" takes place,
and the iMessage service is not involved in cellular messaging. 


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