Administrators can use this information to select the applicable file types for native WhatsApp media types such as documents, audios, images, stickers, and videos.
Table 1:
WhatsApp Media Type |
Allowed File Type |
document |
video/3gpp2 |
document |
application/x-7z-compressed |
document |
video/x-msvideo |
document |
image/bmp |
document |
text/csv |
document |
application/msword |
document |
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document |
document |
message/rfc822 |
document |
image/gif |
document |
text/calendar |
document |
application/octet-stream |
document |
text/plain |
document |
audio/m4a |
document |
video/x-m4v |
document |
video/quicktime |
document |
application/mp4 |
document |
video/mpeg |
document |
application/vnd.apple.numbers |
document |
application/x-iwork-numbers-sffnumbers |
document |
application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text |
document |
application/ogg |
document |
video/ogg |
document |
application/vnd.apple.pages |
document |
application/pdf |
document |
image/x-png |
document |
image/x-citrix-png |
document |
application/mspowerpoint |
document |
application/powerpoint |
document |
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow |
document |
application/x-mspowerpoint |
document |
application/vdn.ms-powerpoint |
document |
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation |
document |
image/svg+xml |
document |
image/tiff |
document |
text/x-vcard |
document |
audio/x-wav |
document |
video/webm |
document |
video/x-ms-wmv |
document |
application/vdn.ms-excel |
document |
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet |
document |
application/rss+xml |
document |
text/yaml |
audio |
audio/aac |
audio |
audio/amr |
audio |
audio/mp4 |
audio |
audio/mpeg |
audio |
audio/ogg |
image |
image/png |
image |
image/png |
sticker |
image/webp |
video |
video/mp4 |
video |
video/3gpp |
