How to fix the quality of Instagram Stories on Android

Instagram is not the most optimized application in the world, it is no mystery. Yes, it is true that it has many options and that makes the app more and more difficult to optimize. But it is true that the app works much better for iOS than for Android, and not only in performance, but also in the quality of the photos and stories is greatly reduced when you use an Android. So we tell you how to reduce this problem as much as possible and how to improve the quality of Instagram Stories on Android.

There are several options to solve this, we tell you the simplest and most effective.

Use your mobile phone’s native camera

When using the integrated camera in the Instagram application (the one we have when going to the section to publish stories), the compression is so great that the quality decreases a lot. So to avoid this poor quality we will use the default camera application of our phone. The file that it will create will have much higher quality, and when you upload it to your stories from the gallery (sliding up once you are in the story creation, the gallery opens) you will notice that it has much higher quality, both in photo and video.

Use Open Camera

For video another trick is to use Open Room, a camera application that will allow us to modify any detail of the camera as we wish, including the resolution of the bit rate, which is what we will deal with now. The bit rate is the amount of information that our video files have, the more information, the better quality it has.

The logical thing is to think about putting it to the maximum, but it is not like that. The more bits per second, the more the file weighs, and the more the file weighs, the more Instagram will compress. There are several settings, but one that usually works quite well is to record to 720p at about 15Mbps, the sweet spot between quality and low compression.

If you prefer, use the Google Camera

The second option, if we want some more advanced options, there will always be the Google Camera as an alternative. Of course, as long as the smartphone has a Qualcomm Snapdragon brand processor, any chip that is not from the US manufacturer will not be compatible with this app.

With it, it will be possible to take HDR + photographs with manual control, night vision, Playground to add augmented reality effects and a Do Not Disturb mode. Features that not all smartphone cameras support natively.

Can it be improved on any Android mobile?

In principle, yes. Anything that is using the smartphone camera instead of Instagram, will be translated into a better quality photo or video. It is true that there are a large number of devices in operation that do not have the most current functions such as HDR +, Portrait Mode or recording at 60 FPS in the case of videos, but it is still advisable to use the method that we have discussed.

Instagram mode Samsung Galaxy

If you have an updated high-end Samsung phone, you can possibly use the Instagram mode that is integrated into your camera, which you will see on the left of the different camera modes, when uploading it with that mode, both photo and video will have much better quality .

Do not cut

And finally, an important point to solve the quality of Instagram Stories, if you take a horizontal photo, do not cut. Cut it out of the app, but never in the same story, and if you can, shoot vertically directly, a simple trick, but you will appreciate it.

Surely, you have ever taken a photo and seen how Instagram has cut it quite a bit. This happens because there is a specific size to upload the photos to Instagram -600 x 400 px for horizontal photos and 600 x 749 for vertical photos-, if you go over this size, Instagram will cut it, with the consequent loss of quality. The best way to avoid this loss is crop the image in a decent editor like Snapseed and the like