While WhatsApp has already made Communities official, it's but to finalise a launch for the group polls characteristic that's nonetheless in beta testing. But it seems to be just like the characteristic may also be arriving quickly now that there's more details about the way it will work.
In a current submit, WABetaInfo has offered us with a sneak peek on the group polls characteristic. The screenshots shared by the publication present the choices out there in a ballot and a dynamic white bar under the choices provides a pictorial illustration of the proportion of votes obtained for every of the choices.
As reported beforehand, the characteristic will limit ballot responses to a most of 12. There might be a chance that the Meta-owned on the spot messaging app will increase this in the longer term. The newest characteristic has been in improvement since final month and the report means that the characteristic is but not prepared for the ultimate launch. The newest progress on group polls is at present seen on WhatsApp beta for iOS version 22.9.0.70.
WhatsApp has been testing many different new options over the previous few months together with bringing reactions to messages much like those we’ve seen on Instagram. The greatest replace nonetheless that may be rolling out could be the file-sharing limits of as much as 2GB. Quite probably the most troubling draw back of WhatsApp has been the restrict to sharing recordsdata bigger than 100MB and lots of competing apps have seen a rising variety of customers all as a result of they provide a bigger restrict.
New privateness options too
The messaging app can be testing out extra privateness options that had been beforehand solely restricted to the WhatsApp Status. Currently, it is attainable to cover our profile image and final seen both from all saved contacts or everybody on WhatsApp. But in a future replace, it is going to grow to be simpler to restrict them to chose saved contacts as nicely.
Similar to controlling who sees your WhatsApp Status, you possibly can exclude chosen saved contacts from viewing your profile image, final seen standing and the about part of your profile. At the identical time, you gained’t be capable to view any of their info as nicely.