Sharing downloaded images via Whatsapp with "HD quality" option does nothing

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Overview

Photos downloaded using icloud-pd when shared to any contact in WhatsaApp with HD quality option selected does nothing, the same image when selected with Standard quality does send the image to the selected contact. For reference here's the command I use for downloading the photos from my icloud.

icloudpd --directory /icloudpd-photos-weekly/ --folder-structure {:%Y/%b} --size adjusted --no-progress-bar --until-found 10 --delete-after-download

Steps to Reproduce

1. Details

   • Version: 1.25.0
   • OS: Debian, app installation using pypi
   • Command: Shared above

2. Run the command above to download images to any desired directory

3. Transfer the image using any file manager to a mobile device where WhatsApp is available

4. Try sharing the downloaded image to WhatsApp in HD quality

Expected Behavior

The image would be shared in HD quality to the selected contact

Actual Behavior

Nothing happens, after clicking send on WhatsApp the preparing screen briefly appears (this is default popup) and then when you open the chat of the contact again then the image would not be shared

Context

I primarily download photos from my icloud using icloudpd and then upload them to immich, I came across this issue when I first tried sharing the image via immich and then realized it was an issue with icloudpd on how the images are actually being downloaded.

Do note that image when shared using "Standard quality" do get sent to the contact, it's only when "HD quality" is selected the images are not shared. I believe there's something going on with the way metadata is being handled when downloading the image from icloud and when WhatsApp tries to run the compression it fails.

Although I really can't say if it's a bug on WhatsApp's end on not able to handle any image thrown or if icloudpd's way of downloading images has something going on, regardless I thought of creating this issue just in case something's up with the way icloudpd downloads images from icloud.