Telegram: compress videos in the application to take up less

It is no secret that Telegram has great features that make our life easier and make us wonder why WhatsApp is more popular than Telegram with so many differences between one application and another. The truth is that one of these functions is that we can reduce the weight of the videos directly in the application and thus save precious space on our mobile.

How video compression works in Telegram

We know that in general, videos are the files that take up the most space on our mobile. A single high resolution video can consume several GB of our storage, however we will always have the option to compress these videos and then reduce their size.

Telegram compression works in the same way that we can find with specialized applications for this task, and that is to reduce the weight of the video, even the its quality will be reduced. Although unlike WhatsApp, where the video quality suffers without even consulting us; In Telegram, the app will ask us how much we want to lower its quality. Depending on the quality of the video we will have different amounts of layers to compress.

How to compress videos on Telegram: steps to follow

If even knowing that the resolution of your video will be affected, you still want to compress it, you just need to follow the steps below:

1. Log in to the app Telegram.
2. Press on three lines at the top left to access the Telegram menu.
3. Once there, go up Saved messages, to send the video to yourself.
4. On this screen you need to click icon area of clip in bass.
5. Find the video in your mobile gallery and click on it, not the circle. This step is important, because if you click on the circle it will automatically give you the option to send without going through the squeeze.
6. Now press the nut icon.
7. Finally, move the blue line until you reduce the weight as much as you want.

Up you can see the resolution and weight which video will be with after it is compressed.