Why your Instagram stories on Android look low quality as compared to iPhone

Umar Usman
Mac O’Clock
Published in
4 min readJul 12, 2020

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These days a lot of people use Stories on their social media apps. Almost every social media app (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp etc) have stories feature for their users to share life experiences instantly with their friends and family.

If you are an active user and use the story feature a lot you can easily find the difference in picture and video quality of stories. If you are a tech enthusiast you probably noticed that the quality of Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp, Facebook and other social media apps stories are much high quality and crispy on iPhones and very poor and low resolution on Android (even if you are using a $1000 flagship android phone like Samsung Galaxy S20).
It is hard to find a good answer on this issue on the internet so i thought why not share the real reason of low resolution social media stories on Android.

So why Stories look poor quality on Android?

These days if you look at the flagship Android phones all of them comes with a very high quality and powerful camera sensor. Just take a look on the flagship smartphones from Samsung, Google and Huawei. They all have very powerful camera sensors and with the help of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine learning they can…

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Umar Usman
Mac O’Clock

Tech Enthusiast | Electrical Engineer | Love to talk about Tech | iSheep. Follow me for the latest Apple News.