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<p>Large communities on Telegram frequently use <strong>polls</strong> to coordinate their activities and stay in touch with their members. Today, we're rolling out a <strong>dedicated tool</strong> for polls in addition to existing bots like <ahref="https://t.me/vote">@vote</a>. We hope the new built-in polls will be a welcome addition to groups with <strong>100,000</strong> members and channels with <strong>millions</strong> of subscribers.</p>
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<p>Polls can be <strong>forwarded</strong> to increase reach and <strong>pinned</strong> for better visibility (and also to notify all members of the community).</p>
<p>At the moment, polls are <strong>anonymous</strong>, meaning that no one can see who voted for what. Going forward, we may introduce non-anonymous polls where the voters lists will be public, but such polls will be explicitly marked as non-anonymous. </p>
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<p>Back to more mundane matters, you can use <strong>Web Search</strong> again to find images when sending <em>Photo & Video</em> attachments or choosing profile pictures in our iOS app. Setting a Grinch avatar for Christmas has never been easier:</p>
<p><ahref="https://telegram.org/blog/translations-iv2#the-great-ios-bug-hunt">The Great iOS Bug Hunt</a> goes on and the app received numerous fixes in version <strong>5.1.1</strong>.</p>
<p>To name a few improvements: Clearing the cache in <em>Settings > Data and Storage > Storage Usage</em> now correctly <strong>reduces</strong> the <strong>space</strong> taken by the app. Files and media will <strong>keep downloading</strong> for a while after you close the app. You will see <strong>detailed progress</strong> when downloading and uploading files. We've also added <strong>online indicators</strong> for the ‘People’ section in search results.</p>
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