WhatsApp now available for Apple iPad

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After 15 years, WhatsApp is finally ready for the iPad

After all this time, it actually exists.
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After 15 years, WhatsApp is finally ready for the iPad

Meta now has a dedicated iPad app for WhatsApp, more than 15 years after the messaging service and the first iPad launched (2009 and 2010, respectively). Available to download today via the App Store, WhatsApp for iPad supports many of the same features as its iPhone counterpart, allowing users to join audio and video calls with up to 32 people, use both the rear and front device cameras, and share their screen with other call participants.

The WhatsApp for iPad works with iPadOS features like Stage Manager, Split View, and Slide Over, enabling it to run alongside other applications. That means users can view their messages in a split-screen view while browsing the web or watching videos, making the larger screen more practical for multitasking while using the app, compared to constantly switching away from WhatsApp on smaller mobile devices.

If you wanted to use WhatsApp on a larger screen before the iPad app, you had to either run the web version in your iPad’s browser or use the desktop apps for Mac or PC. In 2022, WhatsApp head Will Cathcartsaid that Meta would “love” to develop a native iPadOS WhatsApp experience, noting that “people have wanted an iPad app for a long time.”

The WhatsApp account on X teased on Monday that the app was coming via a not-so-subtle eyes emoji, but there was no indication that it would drop this soon. Meta is also rumored to be developing an Instagram app for iPad that’s optimized for the larger display, but the company hasn’t dropped any hints about that in the way it did for WhatsApp.


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My fok.

Only problem is I’ve spread the load to iMessage and Telegram for the lack of iPad support for over a decade.

Which pretty much leaves school and other group chats.
 
Crazy, you search for it on the AppStore and it doesn’t even show up in favour of all the clones.

Had to go to their website for the direct link.
 
Very cool!! I've used a WhatsApp hack for years and it's flaky at best. Will be interesting to see how the official iteration runs...
 
Smiggles said:
I'd like to see WA call notifications. Right now I only get them after the fact which is useless.
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This!! I often miss WhatsApp calls because of a lack of notification, I would be so happy if they finally add that functionality, honestly I don’t know why it is still missing after all these years
 
How did it take this long?
 
bwana said:
How did it take this long?
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Zuck hates Apple
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed rival tech giant Apple
for lackluster innovation efforts and “random rules” in a lengthy podcast interview on Friday.

“On the one hand, [the iPhone has] been great, because now pretty much everyone in the world has a phone, and that’s kind of what enables pretty amazing things,” Zuckerberg said in an episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience.” “But on the other hand ... they have used that platform to put in place a lot of rules that I think feel arbitrary and feel like they haven’t really invented anything great in a while. It’s like Steve Jobs invented the iPhone, and now they’re just kind of sitting on it 20 years later.”
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Instagram is already on the iPad. Mark Gurman is on a roll again.
 
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