There’s no denying it, iPadOS 16 brought a few native apps that everyone was asking for on the iPad, like the Weather or Fitness app. But given what has been seen, there is still work to be done in this regard. There are apps that are still exclusive to the iPhoneand sometimes it’s not something that can be fully justified.
I’m not just talking about Apple and its outstanding duties: there are also some companies that don’t want to hear about the creation of their official apps for the iPad. Let’s take it easy.
Take note of these apps, iPadOS 17
- WhatsApp This is one of the most heaven-screaming apps. While the rest of the messaging services have official clients for the iPad, in the case of WhatsApp we still have to rely on a website. For those who are fed up, they can always switch to iMessage or Telegram.
- instagram is another very popular third-party app that does not have an iPad interface. Officially it’s not done due to the apparent low number of users who would install it, but with much smaller apps doing the job, it looks like a very cheap excuse.
- The calculator Official Apple is in macOS, iOS and even in watchOS. But not on iPadOS. There are plenty of alternative calculators out there, but of course: they include in-app ads, purchases and subscriptions…and pray to heaven you had to go through that to get a simple calculator interface. A completely free alternative is OneCalc, although the tab admits that it uses some usage data to track you.
- Health It could also be present on the iPad, especially now that we measure our physical activity with the Apple Watch. And even if we measured it with the iPhone, it wouldn’t hurt to be able to see a summary of all our health data on the larger screen of an iPad.
- We can use the same argument with the application look. Wouldn’t it be great if we could manage all of our watch settings from the iPad? It is true that the Apple Watch is linked to the iPhone, but iCloud could take care of being able to reflect everything on the tablet thanks to our Apple ID.
- And again the same argument: Briefcase could show us our official tickets and certificates (like the vaccination one) on a bigger screen. I don’t say information about our cards because paying with the iPad is uncomfortable, but we could have information about our passes and our loyalty cards.
- Ended up with Compass, an application that might require additional sensors on the iPad but could be useful for those who work in the open field and without much coverage. We still have the one for the iPhone, but it’s something so simple to implement that I don’t see why they couldn’t do it in the future.
