Whatsapp It doesn’t want to lose its leadership as a messaging app and is constantly being updated to incorporate features already found in other competing apps, such as polls and, soon, message editing.

The arrival of the poll format in chat groups is one of the brand new features of the latest update, in particular because it fills the gap that existed when someone wanted to ask a group a question, for example, on what day was the most suitable for have a dinner.

Until now, what was done was to ask the question and wait for them to answer one by one in the chat. Now everything will be easier.

Those who have updated the latest version of WhatsApp, both on Android and iOS and also on the desktop version, will operate the same: you have to press the button to share your position, a document, a photo or a file and, if you have already the function available, an option will appear that is “Create a poll.”

The rest of the WhatsApp news

Together with polls, the new version of WhatsApp expands the capacity of group chats from 500 to a thousand participants, also allows video calls for up to 32 participants and adds Communities.

Communities are groups of groups. By grouping all groups of the same subject, you can perform common actions such as sending a message to multiple groups at once or switching more easily from one to the other.

What happens if I don’t update WhatsApp

The arrival of these novelties always works the same way in the app. First of all, it is distributed among those users who have the trial version (known as the beta version) so that if there is a bug, only the volunteers who have signed up for the WhatsApp beta program will suffer it.

Once they see it working, they release the feature to the rest of the users, who will need to have the application updated to the latest version. This is still not a guarantee to enjoy the new feature.

Many times the updates have the news disabled and it is WhatsApp that decides when they will be activated for you. This they do like further precautionary measurein the event that any other unforeseen event occurs.

Then, within days, or even weeks, all users start getting the new feature. without doing anything. This means that they have updated the app with the feature disabled and the time has come for them to enjoy it.

The classic WhatsApp leak factory par excellence, the WABetaInfo site, recently revealed that the application roadmap will include two long-awaited novelties from the billions of users of the messaging platform: the possibility of edit messages once sent.

Soon the user will also be able to open a chat with himself without doing any strange maneuvers, such as having to program the same telephone number as an external contact.

With information from La Vanguardia.