It's weird. With 3 billion users, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in the world. He landed on the App Store in 2009, about six months before the introduction of the iPad. And during all this time, there has never been an iPad application for WhatsApp.
Until today. You can now download WhatsApp for iPad.
It has always been a strange omission. Meta (then Facebook) bought WhatsApp in 2014. The resources necessary to make a version of WhatsApp for the iPad were certainly there. The design was also there: WhatsApp is available for the iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and the web phones. It is not as if it were a messaging platform only.
We may never know exactly why it was decided that the iPad was not worthy of its own WhatsApp application in the past 15 years. The iPhone app was able to run on an iPad due to restrictions on “telephony” applications. You can always use the web customer on iPad, but that had certain limits – the native customer allows you to use the front or rear camera and maintain video calls with up to 32 people, as well as share your screen. And it is well formatted for the big screen of the iPad.
The application supports the standard functionality of the iPad such as the stage manager, the sliding and the divided view, as well as the management of the Apple pencil. So go catch it now.
