Now that the avatar can be expanded. You can see the poor quality of the image, I understand that this is to save data, and that’s fine, but not everyone has this problem. So I suggest that the quality of the avatar can be editable, and an easy way to do it is through the option: Outgoing multim…

there is still a bug in desktop that is not fixed yet, see Avatars with enhanced image quality do not work · Issue #4914 · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub apart from that, the mentioned limits are from some years ago and no longer in place, currently it can be six times larger (512 x 512 px, 6…

High quality avatar

Feature Proposal

ian January 20, 2026, 5:52pm 4

How about webp, that produces vastly better results for this size range.

And also AVIF, but support for that is still pending: