How Pulse Polls Work

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Read an open poll

Open Home → Pulse to find polls in the feed. A poll can show its question, answer choices, vote count, and time remaining.

Read the question and choose carefully. Pulse polls are designed for one vote per account while the poll is open.

New poll with two choices, zero votes and five minutes left. — A new poll shows the choices and time remaining.

Create a question and choices

Open Pulse from Home.
Tap What's happening? at the top of the feed to open the composer.
Choose the poll icon to show Ask a question and two initial choice fields.
Enter a question and two to four distinct choices, each up to 25 characters.
Review the poll and its length, then tap Post at the top of the composer.

Current Pulse polls cannot be combined with photo posts or public meet cards.

Pulse composer with three choices, a one-day poll length and Post at the top. — Add answer choices and review the poll length before posting.

Add or remove an extra choice

Tap Add choice when the question needs another answer. An added choice has an × control for removing it.

Keep the options easy to tell apart. Use Remove poll if you want to return to a text post instead.

Poll choices with a third choice, its remove control, Add choice and poll length settings. — Use Add choice for another option, or the × beside it to remove it.

Review the poll length

Use Days, Hours and Minutes to set a total poll length from five minutes to seven days. Minutes uses five-minute steps. Check the full duration before posting.

Poll length Days menu with options from 0 to 7. — Choose how many days the poll should stay open.

Post the completed poll

Review the question, choices and Poll length, then choose Post. The example shown is set to one day.

If Post is unavailable, check that you have entered the question, choices and poll length.

Vote and read the results

Tap a choice to vote. The checkmark shows your selected choice, and the percentages show the results so far.

Poll results with the first choice selected and one vote. — The checkmark shows your choice. The percentages show the results so far.

Check the final results

Look for Final results after the poll closes.

If the time or results look out of date, switch to Meets and return to Pulse to check again.

Closed poll with Final results and one vote. — When the poll closes, look for Final results beneath the options.

Troubleshooting

Poll will not postCheck that the question and choices are clear and complete.
Cannot vote againPulse polls are designed for one vote per account.
Poll closedClosed polls can show final results instead of accepting new votes.

Contact support

Email support@idlemeets.com if a poll behaves unexpectedly or shows content that should be reviewed.