File size limits for Discord, WhatsApp, Gmail and iMessage
Every app you'd use to send a file has a ceiling, and most of them are lower than a single minute of phone video. Here are the current limits in one place, with a page for each app explaining what counts, what gets compressed and how to get around it.
| App | Limit | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Discord | 20 MB free 50 MB Nitro Basic 500 MB Nitro | Free limit doubled from 10 MB in August 2026 |
| About 16 MB for photos and videos 2 GB as a document | Media is compressed; documents are sent as-is | |
| Gmail | 25 MB to send 50 MB to receive | Encoding overhead means about 18 MB of real file |
| iMessage | About 100 MB per attachment | Green-bubble SMS/MMS is far smaller |
| Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud Mail | 20–25 MB | See our email attachment guide |
| Send Shed Quick Share | 3 GB per file | Free, no account, link you can paste into any of the above |
The fix is the same everywhere: send a link, not the file
Chat apps and email were built for messages, not large files, so their limits stay low. The reliable workaround is to upload the file somewhere built for it and paste the link into the chat or email instead. The person you're sending to gets the original file at full quality, and nothing gets compressed along the way.
Send Shed's Quick Share does that with no account: up to 3 GB per file, a link in seconds, and an expiry you choose (1 hour to 7 days) so the file doesn't sit online forever. For anything private, Encrypted Share encrypts the file in your browser before it's uploaded.
Too big? Send it here instead
Upload it to Quick Share — up to 3 GB per file, free, no account — and paste the link wherever you were trying to attach it. The link expires on its own.
Send it with Quick Share Send it encrypted