In the wake of national lockdown, people are forced to sit at homes in India. While the ongoing scenario has deliberately spiked internet usage across the country. It has even impacted the WhatsApp servers, and in wake of such a surge, the company is doing some changes to the social messaging app.

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The world’s largest social messaging app has just trimmed the Status video limit by 15 seconds in India to reduce the server strain. WhatsApp tracker, WABetaInfo tweeted the information, “You can no longer send videos to WhatsApp Status if they are longer than 16 seconds: only videos having a duration of 15 seconds will be allowed. This is happening in India and it’s probably an initiative to reduce the traffic on the server infrastructures.”

The new change will affect all 400 million Whatsapp users throughout India. The app from now own will ask the users to reduce video time under 15 seconds to upload it as Status.

Several other services are reporting the upscale in data usage throughout India. To ease the load on telecom carriers and some service providers, the Indian Government has limited the video streaming to 480p last week on all the cellular networks.

It’s been a week since the Indian Government has imposed lockdown to fight against the novel coronavirus. The measures and steps taken by the government have somehow reduced the pace of virus spread.

Additionally, the WhatsApp Status feature initially allowed 90 seconds of video but was considerably reduced to 30 seconds.

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