What kind of attachments can I send on WhatsApp?

You can send the following attachments apart from Text (English and Unicode characters) -

• Link
• Document
  • text/plain
  • application/pdf
  • application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
  • application/msword
  • application/vnd.ms-excel
  • application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
  • application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
  • application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

• Image (Images must be 8-bit, RGB or RGBA)
  • image/png
  • image/jpeg

• Audio
  • audio/mpeg3
  • audio/x-mpeg-3
  • audio/aac,
  • audio/mp4
  • audio/mpeg,
  • audio/amr,
  • audio/ogg (only opus codecs, base audio/ogg is not supported)

     

• Video ( Note: Only H.264 video codec and AAC audio codec is supported. We support videos with a single audio stream or no audio stream.)

  • video/mp4

  • video/3gp

• Location
• Contact card

Learn more about supported content-types for different types of messages.