How to Compress Images Without Uploading Them Anywhere

Large phone photos often sit at 4–12 MB. Email limits and slow mobile networks punish that. Compression fixes size; bad settings destroy faces and small type.

A reliable recipe: resize the long edge to about 1600 px for chat/email, then JPG or WebP quality around 75–82%. Most everyday photos land between 200–600 KB and still look sharp fullscreen on a phone.

Avoid crushing quality to 30% first. If the file is still large, shrink dimensions again, then recompress. Strip EXIF when you do not want GPS or camera tags shared publicly.

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