Get ready for Twitter to look a lot sharper – starting today, the company is letting all users tweet (and view) photos in 4K on iOS and Android.
Twitter’s web app already supports higher-resolution images (up to 4096 x 4096 resolution), but the mobile apps were limited to only half, with a maximum resolution of 2048 x 2048. The company had previously started the testing the 4K image upload option for mobile users earlier this year, and it looks like those tests went well as the feature is now available to all users starting today.
Time to tweet those high-resolution photos – the option to upload and view 4K images on Android and iOS is now available to everyone.
To start uploading and viewing images in 4K, update your high-quality image preferences in the “Data Usage” settings. https://t.co/XDnWOji3nx
– Twitter support (@TwitterSupport) April 21, 2021
To enable the new feature, users will need to go to the ‘data usage’ section of the settings menu in the Twitter app and enable both ‘high-quality images’ (for viewing 4K images) and ‘high-quality image uploads’. (To tweet them). Users can select whether they want the higher-resolution images to be enabled for both cellular and Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi only, or turned off completely – similar options to how Twitter handles higher resolution or auto-play video.