Some of the most pop apps in the world are infamous for refusing to provide a dedicated version for iPad owners . Instagram is one – hunting for that on your iPad ’s App Store and you ’ll see only the iPhone version ( which you could go on an iPad , but will provide a substandard experience ) . But an even more famous and dissatisfactory instance is WhatsApp , which does n’t even come out in App Store search on an iPad . What ’s Meta got against iPadOS ?
We do n’t have any good news for Instagram users , but the lack of an iPad app for WhatsApp could transfer soon , establish on a seemingly revealing unexampled audience . Speaking toThe Verge , WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart acknowledged that people had been postulate for an iPad app for a long time – which is demonstrably true ; our tutorial explaininghow to get WhatsApp on iPadis one of the most wide read we ’ve ever had – and order the company would “ love to do it ” .
Cathcart sound out much of the base to uprise an iPad app is already in place , although he makes no immediate promises .
“ We did a wad of work on the technology for supporting multiple devices , ” Cathcart said . “ Our web and our screen background apps now have that . If I have multi - equipment on , I can turn my phone off or lose my net connexion and still get messages on my desktop . That would be really important for a pad app , to be able-bodied to apply the app even if your earpiece is n’t on . So the underlying technology is there . ”
This is n’t the first time we ’ve heard rumours about anupcoming WhatsApp app for iPad . But this is at least the first time we ’ve heard it directly from an official source .
This clause in the beginning appeared onMacworld Sweden . Translation ( usingDeepL ) and extra reporting by David Price .
