Electronics

[Stargazer77]

I got a new iPad for Christmas. I have an old iPad and never updated to iOS 14. The new iPad is fully updated, of course. When I look at my photos in iMessage by clicking the person's name at the top, then info, then choosing a picture, it doesn't go full screen - hard tap, soft tap, double tap, pinching. Is there a workaround for this? I don't know why they can't just leave things alone. 

Edited to add: Some of my widgets are also unavailable in iOS 14, compared to iOS 13, like weather, news, and stocks. I enjoyed giving those things a quick glance. Sigh. 

[viva923]

I updated to ios14, lost much in update. Can't delete my emails, have to manually do each email now.

love my i pad,even with the new updates that are frustrating.

[Lilysmom1]

@Stargazer77 , my brother and I recently had a discussion about compressed videos.  I don't know if this will help but thought I would share with you.  It is an issue related to your cell provider.  HTH. S aka Lilysmom

Why video quality suffers during sending and receiving

MMS and Cellular Carrier Limitations

The video quality killer is a one-two punch administered by the limitations of MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service), the extension of the SMS text messaging protocol that allows us to send photos and video through the cellular network, coupled with aggressive compression applied by the actual cellular provider.

MMS messages are size limited at the carrier level and that size limit ranges from 300KB to around 1200KB (or, 0.3MB to 1.2MB). Typically the high-end of that scale, MMS messages exceeding 1,000KB, are limited to intra-carrier messages (e.g. one Verizon user can send a large MMS message to another Verizon user) but limitations between carriers, inter-carrier communication, is limited to 300-600KB.

Thus by default, regardless of the quality of the camera on your phone, your iPhone will automatically compress any video sent over MMS to another phone (iPhone on your network, Android phone on another network, makes no difference) in order to reduce the very large and high quality original video file to a size that can be managed by the MMS system.

To further compound the issue some carriers even apply additional compression in a bid to reduce overhead on their own network so by the time your video reaches the recipient it may have been compressed not once but multiple times, ultimately completely degrading the quality of the video.

That explains why the video quality is low for some of your recipients, but what about the people who get high quality video instead? That’s where iMessage comes in. Although in day-to-day use it’s easy to forget your iPhone is set up to use iMessage it’s important to remember that iMessage is beholden to the limitations of SMS/MMS protocols. iMessage is more like a super-charged instant messaging service run over the data network (akin to ICQ, AIM, and Google Hangouts) than it is like the cellular-based messaging protocols it seeks to replace.

Because iMessage sends all its content through the data network via the Internet and Apple’s servers it is not restricted in the same fashion. Although there are still limitations to the iMessage file delivery system, the limits (although not officially published) max out at around ~220MB. That’s more than enough to send crystal clear video clips without running into any issues until the videos become quite lengthy.

Turn on iMessage

Sometimes iMessage gets turned off (like when you change your master account password) and you forget to turn it back on. Ensure that iMessage is enabled on your own phone and then help your friends and family enable it on their phones too.

In the above image you can see where the setting is located, under Settings -> Messages -> iMessage. Note that we highlight the the “Send as SMS” feature too (and recommend you keep it on). If you turn that toggle off then any iMessage you send to a fellow iMessage user will only send through the iMessage network, which is data-connection dependent. If you want to ensure the text always gets through even if iMessage is unavailable then you want that checked.

Obviously iMessage only works for Apple-to-Apple product communication but it works awesome (and a surprising number of people don’t even have it on).

EMAIL THEM

If iMessage isn’t an option there’s always email. While MMS is limited to anywhere from 0.3-1.2MB file sizes, most email providers allow for file sizes anywhere from 3MB to 25+MB in size. it’s a bit of a stop-gap measure between the spaciousness of the iMessage limits and the restrictions of MMS, but in a pinch it’ll do.