Why You Should Customize Your Slack Image Settings for Mobile
When you have limited monthly data plans, media files like images and photos can significantly impact your overall consumption. While there are plenty of reasons your data consumption is unusually high, it’s almost always due to practical reasons such as app settings and other Slack customization settings.
For people who use Slack for work, the number of media files sent back and forth can add up with time. With so many possible types of Slack channels, not everyone will take the time to resize their media files before sending them off.
For this reason, it’s best to optimize your Slack mobile app to use only what is necessary, so you can keep your data consumption low. Here’s how you can do it today.
1. Collapsing All Images
If you want Slack to collapse all images on your mobile app, all images will not appear. With this, two types of images will be collapsed: in-line images and images from media links.
In-line images are images directly uploaded and sent through Slack. Alternatively, images from media links are often thumbnails or featured images from external links.
Here’s how you can collapse all images on the Slack Mobile app.
Open your Slack mobile app. In the lower-right corner of the screen, press You. Tap Preferences. Select Advanced. Next to Collapse All Images, toggle on the button.
This method can help you reduce your data consumption the most among all the images. However, it can mean that you may miss out on important announcements. Alternatively, you can also opt to optimize your images instead.
2. Optimize Images for Upload on Slack Mobile App
When it comes to mobile Slack users who may still need to upload images regularly, you can opt to optimize images instead. When doing this, you can save data when uploading your own files to the Slack messaging app.
If you regularly upload photos from your Slack app, here’s how to use less data.
Open your Slack mobile app. In the lower-right corner of the screen, press You. Tap Preferences. Select Advanced. Next to Optimize Images for Upload, toggle on the button.
With this, your Slack mobile app should use significantly less data for image uploads. While you’re at it, you can also optimize your Slack mobile app’s video upload quality.
3. Optimize Videos for Upload on Slack Mobile App
If you send more videos on the mobile app, you can also optimize it to consume less data when uploading on Slack. Here’s how.
Open your Slack mobile app. In the lower-right corner of the screen, press You. Tap Preferences. Select Advanced. Next to Optimize Images for Upload, toggle on the button.
4. Turn Save Media to Camera Roll Off on the Slack Mobile App
Sometimes, Slack’s auto-saving features can be incredibly helpful with having useful images and videos on the go. However, this can also mean you use a lot of data downloading unnecessary media files. In addition, this can also fill up your camera roll, take up a chunk of your device storage, and make it difficult to separate your personal and work life.
Here’s how you can keep your camera roll from filling up with Slack media images:
Open your Slack mobile app. In the lower-right corner of the screen, press You. Tap Preferences. Select Advanced. Next to Save Media to Camera Roll, toggle off the button.
Manage Your Slack Media Files
When it comes to making Slack work for you, you can do plenty of things. By managing your media files, you can ensure your Slack app doesn’t use more data and storage than it should. Alternatively, there are plenty of work apps you can try, which might use less data overall.
