The Instagram iPad App Is Finally Here

Apple debuted the iconic and now wildly celebrated iPad successful 2010. A fewer months later, Instagram landed connected nan App Store to accelerated success. But for 15 years, Instagram hasn't bothered to optimize its app layout for nan iPad's larger screen.

That's yet changing today: There's now a dedicated Instagram iPad app disposable globally connected nan App Store.

It has been a agelong clip coming. Even earlier Apple began splitting its mobile operating strategy from iOS into iOS and iPadOS, countless apps adopted a caller personification interface that embraced nan larger surface size of the tablet. This was nan iPad's calling paper astatine nan time, and those autochthonal apps optimized for its precise surface size are what made Apple's instrumentality guidelines retired from a sea of Android tablets that mostly ran telephone apps inelegantly blown up to fresh nan bigger screen.

Except Instagram ne'er went iPad-native. Open nan existing app correct now, and you'll spot nan aforesaid telephone app stretched to nan iPad's surface size, pinch awkward gaps connected nan sides. And you'll tally into nan occasional problems erstwhile you station photos from nan iPad, for illustration low-resolution images. Weirdly, Instagram did present layout improvements for folding phones a fewer years ago, which intends nan acquisition is amended optimized connected Android tablets coming than it is connected iPad.

Instagram's chief, Adam Mosseri, has long offered excuses, often citing a deficiency of resources contempt being a portion of Meta, a multibillion-dollar company. Instagram wasn't nan only offender—Meta promised a WhatsApp iPad app successful 2023 and only delivered it earlier this year. (WhatsApp made its debut connected phones successful 2009.)

The caller iPad app (which runs connected iPadOS 15.1 aliases later) offers much than conscionable a facelift. Yes, nan Instagram app now takes up nan full screen, but nan institution says users will driblet consecutive into Reels, nan short-form video level it introduced 5 years ago to compete pinch TikTok. The Stories module remains astatine nan top, and you'll beryllium capable to hop into different tabs via nan paper icons connected nan left. There's a caller Following tab (the group icon correct beneath nan location icon), and this is simply a dedicated conception to spot nan latest posts from group you really follow.