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Now upload 4K Twitter images from your Twitter account

April 29, 2021 by Hemant Saxena

The way Twitter handles its media uploads upsets many photo enthusiasts. The platform supports images of up to 5MB size only. As such, many users fall short of adding the best quality 4K Twitter images to their social feeds. The company, however, is trying to overcome this shortfall.

How to upload 4K Twitter images and videos from your Twitter handle?

Twitter’s Data Usage settings have now added an option to upload and view 4K images. The setting is available on both platforms, Android and iOS. Read along to find out how to enable high-quality Twitter images and video support on your device.

  1. Launch the Twitter App for iOS or Android.
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. Scroll down to Data Usage.
  4. Tap High-quality images.
  5. Choose the desired option.
  6. Similarly, tap High-quality video.
  7. Enable the desired option.
  8. Save your changes.

Twitter users have often complained, that high-quality image upload on the network has been nothing short of a nightmare for them, a leading reason why photographers stop short of sharing their work on the platform.  

How to post 4K pictures on Twitter?

If you have a collection of higher-res photos waiting to be shared, update your high-quality image preferences in settings. Find out how to enable the support for your Twitter account.

Launch the Twitter app. Make sure you are running the latest version of the app on your device.

Settings Twitter
Settings Twitter

Go to Twitter Settings (visible as the cog-wheel icon in the upper-right corner of your app screen.

Scroll down to the General section of Twitter settings.

Twitter Data Usage Settings
Twitter Data Usage Settings

From the list of options displayed, choose the Data usage option.

High Quality Image Uploads
High-Quality Image Uploads

When directed to a new screen, tap the High-quality image uploads option.

High quality Images Network Selection
High-quality Images Network Selection

Then, enable 4K twitter post image uploads when on a cellular or Wi-Fi network.

Similarly, do the same for a High-quality video setting.

Prior to this change in scheme, Twitter supported photo upload at a lower resolution of 2048 x 2048 pixels, nearly half of what’s allowed for the Desktop variants (4096 x 4096 pixels.

Hope that makes sense!

Category: Social Media Tags: Twitter Last Modified: June 30, 2022

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Hemant Saxena loves writing about technology full-time. He also enjoys making readers' lives easier by walking them through the most practical ways to use Apple devices, step-by-step.

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