WhatsApp is really easy to make use of that it is managed to turn out to be the messaging mainstay for many households, nevertheless it’s nonetheless potential to run into the odd quirk or frustration. Luckily, the app is within the strategy of fixing three of these annoyances with some new updates.

The primary two refinements are coming in an iOS and Android replace that has began rolling out globally and can be “accessible to everybody within the coming weeks”. To get these boosts to polls and sharing images, you may want to attend for brand spanking new model to reach or examine your app retailer for the newest replace.

WhatsApp’s ballot enhancements are significantly helpful for social organizing. Now you can create single-vote polls, to cease individuals from skewing the outcomes with a number of votes. To do this, you may simply must un-toggle the ‘enable a number of solutions’ possibility when making a ballot.

When you’ve ever had hassle discovering a ballot in a chat, you may be happy to listen to that you could additionally now seek for polls in your chats with the brand new replace. On the ‘Chats’ display screen, simply faucet the search field and you will now see ‘Polls’ within the checklist of outcomes. Lastly, you may additionally now get notifications when individuals vote in your polls and can be proven how many individuals have voted in whole.

Exterior Polls, the second large usability enchancment is coming to the method of sharing images or paperwork. Beforehand, forwarding images or pictures to a different group got here with the potential subject of another person responding earlier than you had an opportunity so as to add some essential context.

Luckily, you may now have the ability to add captions to images and movies once you ahead them, and in addition edit current captions which are tied to pictures that you just’re sharing. It is the identical take care of sharing paperwork, which now provide the possibility of including a witty or insightful caption when earlier than you ship them on.

Whereas these two updates are surprisingly large quality-of-life upgrades for WhatsApp customers, a 3rd improve – which may allow you to switch your chat historical past to a different iPhone without having to make use of iCloud – could possibly be much more helpful when it comes out of beta.

Easier chat backups are coming

A report from WABetaInfo (opens in new tab) has revealed that WhatsApp has made a helpful new function accessible to some beta testers that lets them switch chats to a different iPhone with out having to go through iCloud.

That is significantly helpful for individuals who do not pay for further iCloud storage past the free 5GB restrict. That restrict can prohibit you from transferring prolonged chat histories to a brand new iPhone, however this new methodology may get round that by letting you do the switch inside WhatsApp.

Apparently, the method can be so simple as registering on WhatsApp together with your traditional telephone quantity, then utilizing your previous telephone to scan the QR code proven in your new telephone with a purpose to switch your chat historical past. There’ll even be the same function accessible for Android followers who do not wish to switch their chats through Google Drive.

Sadly, proper now this function is at the moment solely accessible to WhatsApp beta testers on iOS and Android, and this beta program is at the moment closed to new testers. On Android, you’ll be able to examine to see which beta testing packages can be found by going to the Play Retailer, tapping your profile icon within the high proper, tapping ‘Handle apps and units put in’, after which tapping an app to see if it has a ‘be part of the beta’ possibility.

Nonetheless, beta options do steadily get rolled out to the complete model of WhatsApp, so that is one we’re hoping to see in a full launch within the coming months.