San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp has introduced two new updates round ‘Polls’ and ‘Sharing with Captions’ on its platform to make chats somewhat 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’ possibility 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 possibility when making a ballot.
As it isn’t at all times potential to reply a ballot instantly, the corporate launched the ‘Search for Polls in Your Chats’ possibility 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 checklist of all outcomes.
With the ‘Stay Updated on Poll Results’ possibility, customers will now obtain notifications when individuals vote on polls, and be proven how many individuals have voted in complete to allow them to simply maintain 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 fully rewrite the caption to present further 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 mentioned these updates have began rolling out globally and will likely be out there to everybody within the coming weeks.
