Instagram has rolled out a new feature that lets you add an interactive poll sticker to your Instagram Stories. You can ask a questions about anything from selecting an outfit or deciding what to eat and receive votes in real time from you followers.
Adding polls is similar to adding other stickers on Instagram stories. When you take a photo or video for your story, select the “poll” sticker and place it anywhere you want. You can write out your own question and even customize the poll choices. After you have shared your poll, your friends and followers can immediately start voting and see real-time results. Once someone has voted on your poll, they will see which choice is in the lead at any given moment. And if they watch your story again later, they will see the latest results. To see your own poll results, swipe up to open the viewers list for that part of your story. In addition to how many votes each option received you will also see who voted and what option they chose. Similar to Instagram Stories, Instagram polls and its results will disappear after 24 hours.
Besides Polls, Instagram has also added two new tools to make your stories even more creative: a color picker for text and brushes and an alignment tool for text and stickers. When you choose a color for your text or drawing tool, you will see a new eyedropper icon at the far left that can be used to select any color from your photo or video. It can also be applied to your text or drawing tool.
The Instagram app for iOS will now show blue lines while you are positioning text or a sticker on your photo or video. These lines will appear to help you center it or avoid placing it anywhere that might get covered up when someone watches your story. And when you rotate text or a sticker, new guides will also help you snap your sticker back to horizontal.
The new update is available now on Android and iOS.