Sending photos and videos

On the website

Press Message tools — the ☰ button below the message box — and choose Add a photo or video. Pick the file, look at it before it goes, add a caption if you want one, and press Send.

What you can send

• Photos: JPEG, PNG, WebP or an iPhone's HEIC, up to 25 MB each.
• Video: MP4, WebM or MOV, up to 80 MB each.

Nothing else. There is no way to send a PDF, a document, or any other kind of file through a message — put a link in the text instead.

It is one file per message, and the caption can run to 5,000 characters. Send a photo with no caption and your conversation list says "Photo" or "Video", so the thread does not look empty.

Reading them

Click a photo in a thread to see it full size, then press the dark area around it — or the × in the corner — to close. Pressing the photo itself does not close it, so you can lean in without losing it. Videos play inside the message with ordinary controls.

On the phone

The + beside the box offers Add a photo or video from your library, or Take a photo with the camera. Whatever you have already typed in the box goes with it as the caption.

The photo list above does not restrict you here. The app converts whatever your camera roll holds to JPEG before it uploads, so a picture in any other format still sends. Videos go as they are, so those still have to be MP4, WebM or MOV.

Sending a picture needs a connection: typed messages queue up when you have no signal, a photo does not, and the app says so rather than pretending it is on its way.

Worth knowing

• Unsending takes the photo with it. Within 24 hours of sending, unsend removes the file from the thread along with the words.
• Sending a photo does not email your host. Kabora emails your host when you write words. An attachment lands in their Kabora inbox and waits to be seen, and adding a caption does not change that — if it is urgent, send words too.
• It does not work the same in reverse. When your host sends you a photo from their computer, Kabora does email you about it — unless you have muted that conversation.