WhatsApp brings new updates to Polls, now lets users caption photos before sharing

WhatsApp has over 2.24 billion active monthly users globally. To provide this vast user base with a smooth and user-friendly messaging experience, the Meta-owned app keeps its team busy in developing new updates and improving the platform. In its latest release, WhatsApp has introduced some new features to make messaging more fun and productive.

WhatsApp has announced new features that include updates for an existing feature - Polls polls, and a new feature that will allow users to forward media and documents with captions.

"As we continue to innovate the app, today we're sharing several new features coming to WhatsApp that we hope will make chats a little more productive and fun," Meta said in the official release.

Let's take a look at all the new features rolling out on WhatsApp for everyone.

WhatsApp introduces new updates to Polls

WhatsApp is introducing three new updates for the polls feature, which it launched in November 2022. The features are designed to help WhatsApp groups collect information and make collective decisions.

• Create Single-Vote Polls: WhatsApp has added a new option for poll creators to get a clear and definitive answer from their voters. By turning off the allow multiple answers option when creating a poll, they can limit each voter to one vote only.
• Search for Polls in Your Chats: WhatsApp has added a new filter for messages by-polls. Similar to the ones for photos, videos or links. Users can press Search on the Chats screen and then Polls to see a list of all results.
• Stay Updated on Poll Results: WhatsApp will now also send notifications to the poll creators when their polls receive votes. They will also be able to view the total number of votes, so they can easily monitor the responses.

Forwarding with Captions

WhatsApp knows that its users love to share photos with their friends and family. It already lets them forward photos easily, but now it has added captions for forwarded media. It has added a new option to keep, delete or rewrite the captions when forwarding media that has one. Users can also add a caption to photos and videos when they forward them without one.

Sharing Documents with Captions

WhatsApp has also added a new option to add a caption before sharing documents. This can help users to explain the documents they share, such as newspaper articles or work documents.

Notably, these updates are being rolled out to users worldwide and will be accessible to everyone soon. Users can check for updates by updating their app from app stores.