In other words, how many individual messages could you send using a Mb of data?
Piece of string question I know but a rough estimate is all that's needed.
A 6-10 line email is in the 10s of kb sort of size, so I'm guessing a WhatsApp message could be similar.
Thanks
It's not as simple as the storage size or anything else.
You've got to account for all of the network traffic incurred in making a connection to the Whatsapp Servers, to/fro of the app checking whether there are new messages for you and updating the connected status of your contacts, sending the message itself, receiving the 'other person has read this' confirmation, disconnection messages, etc and all with the HTTPS and TCP/IP overheads on top of that.
Looking at Settings -> Data and Storage Usage -> Network Usage (in the Whatsapp app). I see:-
Messages
Sent: 962
Received: 11,329
Bytes Sent: 29.1MB
Bytes Recevied: 30.2MB
But sending a message will involve both sending and receiving bytes, so it's not immediately clear how much an individual message will take.
1MB is tiny though, if I divide those numbers by 60 (sent + received = 60MB) I get: Sent: 16, Received: 188
There's also a 'Low Data Usage' option under 'Data and Storage Usage' that may help in this situation.