Videos too large for text messages.

[Bamafan501]

Every time I record something it says it's too large to send in a text message. I have tried to change the settings too make the video's lower quality but it still says they are too large. Any suggestions?

 

[GregMargie]

I am actually using a Galaxy Note 4, so not specific to your phone, but I was intrigued by your post because, for years I have had the same issue with other phones as well. The only answer I always came across was.....cameras on the phones the last several years have such high resolution that the files become so large and impossible to send by text. I don't know if that is true of all model phones but I guess it makes sense. I have tried very short 5 second videos, no luck.

 

[TWC42]

On my carrier, AT&T, text messages are limited to 1 MB. I had the problem of sending pix using the native texting app even though the photos were supposedly reduced automatically by the app. There was no setting that said to what extent the photos were reduced. I switched to Textra, and was able to manually select the reduction, and found that 600 kb worked, where 1 MB did not. YMMV

 

[Bamafan501]

Anyone know a fix to this? Still having problems.

 

[the_newnormal]

Videos are far too large for a text message. Even photos need to be squashed before sending. Only option I'm aware of is uploading to cloud storage (box, onedrive, dropbox, drive, hightail etc) then text a link.