Instagram is Finally Developing a Dedicated iPad App to Boost App Usage: Reportedly

Instagram is engaged on a devoted iPad app, after years of customers requesting help for units with bigger screens, in keeping with a report. The growth comes 15 years after the platform was launched. The Meta-owned picture and video sharing platform has but to announce any plans to launch an app designed for the iPad. Instagram customers presently have the choice to make use of a centre-aligned, zoomed in model of the Instagram app for iPhone on Apple’s tablets, or entry the Instagram web site by way of a browser like Safari.

Instagram iPad App Reportedly Begins 15 Years After Social Network’s Debut

The Information reports (via 9to5Mac) that Instagram is engaged on a model of its software that’s designed to run on the iPad. A present worker informed the publication that the platform’s resolution to develop a devoted iPad app might “additional drive utilization of Instagram”.

The publication states that the choice to work on a devoted app for Instagram on the iPad might have been prompted by two elements. Instagram’s largest rival, TikTok, faces the danger of a ban within the US, below the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. 

The latest tariffs levied on a number of nations, together with India, by US President Donald Trump might even have spurred the corporate to work on an iPad app, in keeping with the report. If the claims within the report are correct, Instagram is lastly creating an iPad app, almost a decade and a half after the platform was launched in 2010.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has downplayed the significance of a devoted Instagram app for iPad over the previous few years. In 2022, Mosseri responded to a submit in X (previously Twitter) by YouTube creator Marques Brownlee (@mkbhd), stating that an iPad app was “nonetheless simply not a large enough group of individuals to be a precedence.”

Users can presently obtain the Instagram app for iPhone on an iPad, however the app seems on the centre of the display screen. It might be expanded to fill the display screen, however it’s nonetheless a zoomed in model of the app, which is designed to work on a a lot smaller show. An iPad app might reap the benefits of the extra display screen actual property supplied by the iPad.

It’s price noting that the event of an Instagram app for the iPad might take a substantial period of time. Another Meta-owned service — WhatsApp — has been testing a model of the messaging app for iPad for a number of months now, with no phrase on a launch date.