WhatsApp’s new features and updates rolled out over the past few months have made the messaging experience much better. Now WhatsApp users can even create polls in personal and group chats to see what their friends and contacts think. Both iOS and Android users can use this feature. A poll can help gauge group members’ opinions on any topic or idea, or can be useful for making plans quickly. Like your chats, the answers you send to a poll question are protected by end-to-end encryption. Currently, Telegram and Facebook Messenger allow group polls. You can easily start using this new WhatsApp feature on your smartphone.
Here’s how to create a WhatsApp poll
Step 1: Update WhatsApp to the latest version
Step 2: Open the private or group chat you want to create a poll in
Step 3: For Android, tap the paper clip icon at the bottom of the screen. For iOS, select the plus icon (+) at the bottom of the screen.
Step 4: Select ‘Poll’
Step 5: Type the question you want to ask along with the answer options
Step 6: Finally, tap “Submit” to share the poll
Up to twelve answer options can be offered to recipients for each poll, and they are not time-bound. Users can also see the answers selected by others by tapping ‘View Votes’.
Meta’s messaging app has been working through several updates recently, rolling out new tools including the Call Link feature, the ability to message yourself, and the Companion mode. While some of these new features are not currently available to all users, WhatsApp plans to make them available to everyone in the coming days. The most recent and talked-about feature, apart from WhatsApp polls, is Communities. It allows users to have separate groups under one “Community” to host large conversations.
“With Communities, we want to raise the bar on how organizations communicate with a level of privacy and security that can’t be found anywhere else. The alternatives available today require trusting apps or software companies with a copy of their messages – and we believe they deserve the higher level of security of end-to-end encryption,” WhatsApp said in a blog post.
