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21+ Supported File Formats You Can Send In WhatsApp [TESTED]

When sending files using WhatsApp, you can send videos, audio, or document files. However, not all file extensions are supported by WhatsApp.

When you attempt to send an unsupported file format, you will encounter the following error message;

The file format is not supported.

This means that WhatsApp does not support the sending of this file extension.

In this article, we tested several file formats to determine which ones are supported by WhatsApp.

What are all the different file formats that WhatsApp supports?

Our test is conducted using three (3) different file types, namely;

  • Video files
  • Audio files
  • Document files

Supported Video File Formats

Here is the complete list of video file formats we have tested.

Based on our test results, Whatsapp only supports the following video file formats; MP4, M4V, MKV, MOV, WEBM, 3G2, and RMVB.

S/noFile ExtensionAble to Send?Able to View?
1MP4YesYes
2M4VYesYes
3MKVYesYes
4MOVYesYes
5WEBMYesYes
63G2YesYes
7RMVBYesNo, use external media player
8MPEG*NoNo
9MPEG-2*NoNo
10FLV*NoNo
11WMV*NoNo
12DIVX*NoNo
13RM*NoNo
14OGV*NoNo
153GPNoNo

Supported Audio File Formats

Here is the complete list of audio file formats we have tested.

Based on our test results, Whatsapp supports most audio file formats. They are AAC, AMR, FLAC, M4A, M4R, MP3, OGG, WAV, and WMA.

S/noFile ExtensionAble to Send?Able to View?
1AACYesYes
2AMRYesYes
3FLACYesYes
4M4AYesYes
5M4RYesYes
6MP3YesYes
7OGGYesYes
8WAVYesYes
9WMANoNo

Supported Document File Formats

Here is the complete list of document file formats we have tested.

Based on our test results, Whatsapp supports sending all the document file formats we used to test it. They are DOC, XLS, PPT, PDF, TXT, HTML, and EPUB.

However, you must install an external document viewer to view them, especially on a mobile device.

For example, you need to install an EPUB reader and PDF viewer to view these files.

S/noFile ExtensionAble to Send?Able to View?
1DOCYesNo
2XLSYesNo
3PPTYesNo
4PDFYesNo
5TXTYesNo
6HTMLYesNo
7EPUBYesNo

Summary

We tested three (3) different file types: video, audio, and document.

Thirty-one (31) file extensions are used to test WhatsApp to determine how many file formats it can support.

Out of which, our test concluded that a total of twenty-two (22) file extensions are supported and allowed to be sent to the Whatsapp recipient through its server.


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Complete List of Apple Mac Operating Systems [OS X & macOS]

Apple usually releases a new operating system (OS) every 1-2 years for their MacBook computers. There are two (2) main OS variants for Apple, namely the earlier Mac OS X versions and the newer macOS versions.

macOS Ventura is the latest and current Apple operating system for MacBook devices.

This article will list down and include all the different Apple OS versions, release dates, version numbers and codenames.

Complete List of all Apple Mac Operating Systems, in order of Release Date

S/NoReleased DateVersionCodeName
1March 24th, 2001Mac OS X 10.0Cheetah
2September 25th, 2001Mac OS X 10.1Puma
3August 23rd, 2002Mac OS X 10.2Jaguar
4October 24th, 2003Mac OS X 10.3Panther
5April 29th, 2005Mac OS X 10.4Tiger
6October 26th, 2007Mac OS X 10.5Leopard
7August 28th, 2009Mac OS X 10.6Snow Leopard
8July 20th, 2011Mac OS X 10.7Lion
9July 25th, 2012Mac OS X 10.8Mountain Lion
10October 22nd, 2013Mac OS X 10.9Mavericks
11October 16th, 2014Mac OS X 10.10Yosemite
12September 30th, 2015Mac OS X 10.11El Capitan
13September 20th, 2016macOS 10.12Sierra
14September 25th, 2017macOS 10.13High Sierra
15September 24th, 2018macOS 10.14Mojave
16October 7th, 2019macOS 10.15Catalina
17November 12th, 2020macOS 11Big Sur
18October 25th, 2021macOS 12Monterey
19October 24th, 2022macOS 13Ventura

Below is the list of all the macOS versions ever released to date.


macOS Ventura

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Released on October 24th 2022, macOS Ventura is the nineteenth release, and its version is referred to as macOS 13.

The wallpaper colours for this macOS release are a combination of dark orange and blue.

New features include;

  • Support for AVIF and WebP image format,
  • Ability to edit and un-send recent iMessage
  • Hands-off features in FaceTime enable the ability to transfer a call between multiple Apple devices.

macOS Monterey

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Released on October 25th 2021, macOS Montetry is the eighteenth release and often referred to as macOS 12.

The wallpaper colour for this macOS release is a dark shade of purple.

New features include;

  • Live Text allows users to copy, paste, translate and lookup texts from images.
  • Low Power mode for longer battery life
  • New Password Manager for Mac

macOS Big Sur

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Released on November 12th 2020, macOS Big Sur is the seventeenth release and is referred to as macOS 11.

The wallpaper colours for this macOS release are a combination of different shades of red, purple, orange and blue.

New features include;

  • Quick toggles for Control Center for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, screen brightness, etc
  • Faster search and indexing of Spotlight search
  • Encryption at the file level

macOS Catalina

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Released on October 7th 2019, macOS Catalina is the sixteenth release and is referred to as macOS 10.15

The chosen colours for this macOS release are different shades of purple.

New features include;

  • Removal of iTunes
  • Activation Lock prevents unauthorized use and drives erasure of T2 security chip devices.
  • Voice control navigation of the operating system

macOS Mojave

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Released on September 24th 2018, macOS Mojave is the fifteenth release and is referred to as macOS 10.14

The wallpaper colour for this macOS release is dark blue.

New features include;

  • Add Group FaceTime
  • Revamp Apple App Store
  • Metadata preview in Finder

macOS High Sierra

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Released on September 25th 2017, macOS High Sierra is the fourteenth release and is referred to as macOS 10.13

The wallpaper colours for this macOS release are shades of orange and yellow.

New features include;

  • Improved Siri for a more natural and expressive voice
  • Support for High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
  • Apple File System (APFS) replaces HFS Plus as the macOS default file system.

macOS Sierra

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Released on September 20th 2016, macOS Sierra is the thirteenth release and is referred to as macOS 10.12

The wallpaper colour for this macOS release uses different shades of yellow.

New features include;

  • Introduction of Picture-in-Picture for playing video across the system
  • Night Shift feature to reduce blue light at night to aid sleep
  • improved Photos app to group similar pictures through better scene and object recognition