How to stop uploaded images and videos from being compressed by Facebook
Uploading images and videos to Facebook in HD – The most important thing to start with:
- Facebook always performs compression on uploaded files
- HD quality upload settings available
- Viewer decides whether videos are played in HD
Our smartphones usually have very high-resolution cameras and the corresponding large memory to save images and videos in the best possible quality and the associated file size. We post a lot of it directly to Facebook. We want to show what great things we have experienced. But then Facebook's compression takes effect: the 4K video shows blurry images, and the disappointment is great.
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Avoid compression
Facebook tries to keep the storage requirements of uploaded files and posts as low as possible. That's why photos and videos are compressed, which means the quality suffers extremely in favor of reduced storage requirements. This is still acceptable for images, but not for videos.
Necessary settings
In order to be able to upload and post pictures and videos in HD quality in the future, you need to make a small setting. This can be found in Facebook under “Settings and Privacy” – “Settings” – “Media and Contacts” – “Videos and Photos”. Simply activate upload photos/videos in HD here and show good quality on the platform in the future.

These settings still compress the files, but significantly less than before. For videos, the “HD” mark appears in your own timeline. Viewers of the video can still manually choose whether the video should be played in this quality. This takes into account the mobile data volume of each user.
Source: schieb.de
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