San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp has introduced two new updates round ‘Polls’ and ‘Sharing with Captions’ on its platform to make chats a bit extra enjoyable and productive.
In Polls, the corporate has launched three choices — Create Single-Vote Polls, Search for Polls in Your Chats, and Stay Updated on Poll Results.
The firm launched the ‘Create Single-Vote Polls’ choice for ballot creators to permit individuals to vote solely as soon as.
Poll creators will simply want to show off the permit a number of solutions choice when making a ballot.
As it isn’t all the time potential to reply a ballot instantly, the corporate launched the ‘Search for Polls in Your Chats’ choice in order that customers can filter messages by polls, similar to they do for photographs, movies or hyperlinks.
On the Chats display, press Search after which Polls to discover a listing of all outcomes.
With the ‘Stay Updated on Poll Results’ choice, customers will now obtain notifications when individuals vote on polls, and be proven how many individuals have voted in whole to allow them to simply hold updated on responses, WhatsApp talked about in a blogpost.
Moreover, the corporate launched the ‘Sharing with Captions’ characteristic, which is able to now let customers ahead media with captions.
When customers ahead media with a caption, WhatsApp will now give them the choice to maintain, delete, or utterly rewrite the caption to offer additional data when sharing photographs between chats.
Users can now additionally add a caption to photographs and movies after they ahead them.
Another new characteristic is the flexibility so as to add a caption earlier than sharing a doc.
WhatsApp stated these updates have began rolling out globally and will probably be out there to everybody within the coming weeks.
