After 15 years, WhatsApp is finally ready for the iPad

WhatsApp for iPad is disposable present connected the App Store.

Meta present has a dedicated iPad app for WhatsApp, much than 15 years aft the messaging work and the archetypal iPad launched (2009 and 2010, respectively). Available to download contiguous via the App Store, WhatsApp for iPad supports galore of the aforesaid features arsenic its iPhone counterpart, allowing users to articulation audio and video calls with up to 32 people, usage some the rear and beforehand instrumentality cameras, and stock their surface with different telephone participants.

The WhatsApp for iPad works with iPadOS features similar Stage Manager, Split View, and Slide Over, enabling it to tally alongside different applications. That means users tin presumption their messages successful a split-screen presumption portion browsing the web oregon watching videos, making the larger surface much applicable for multitasking portion utilizing the app, compared to perpetually switching distant from  WhatsApp connected smaller mobile devices.

If you wanted to usage WhatsApp connected a larger surface earlier the iPad app, you had to either tally the web mentation successful your iPad’s browser oregon usage the desktop apps for Mac oregon PC. In 2022, WhatsApp caput Will Cathcart said that Meta would “love” to make a autochthonal iPadOS WhatsApp experience, noting that “people person wanted an iPad app for a agelong time.”

The WhatsApp relationship connected X teased connected Monday that the app was coming via a not-so-subtle eyes emoji, but determination was nary denotation that it would driblet this soon. Meta is besides rumored to beryllium processing an Instagram app for iPad that’s optimized for the larger display, but the institution hasn’t dropped immoderate hints astir that successful the mode it did for WhatsApp.