Adam Kos Despite strong competition from communication platforms such as Telegram or Signal, WhatsApp remains the most popular messaging platform, connecting more than a billion active users worldwide every day. Not on the iPad though.
WhatsApp is available as a mobile app on iOS and Android, but if you're using an Apple tablet, you're just out of luck. The strength of the platform is precisely in the cross-platform chat, when you send a message from an iPhone and it will also reach anyone on Android. But the company Meta, which is behind not only Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and even WhatsApp, has a slight distaste for optimizing its applications for iPads.
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Amaya Toman iPads are on the back burner
It's quite strange. As long as there are calls for WhatsApp for iPads, there are also calls for a version of Instagram for Apple tablets, but it still hasn't arrived. Instead, the company only optimizes the web interface, which you can use to its full potential on iPads, and the company thus practically replaces the application itself. The same is the case with WhatsApp. So, if you want, you can use WhatsApp on the iPad, just not through the application but the web browser.
However, the application, unlike Instagram, is really going to be for iPads. The problem is that even Meta doesn't know when we might expect it. Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp, mentioned in an interview with The Verge that people have been waiting for the support of the platform on Apple tablets for a really long time and that the company wants to accommodate them. But wanting is one thing and doing is another.
He did not say what stage the development is in, or if it has even started, or when we could actually expect it. It all boils down to multi-device account support, which could just be the first step in actually getting the platform to big screens. After all, this is also why WhatsApp can be used over the web more or less without restrictions.
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Because of the way WhatsApp messages were encrypted in the past, the platform was unable to sync conversations across devices over the Internet, as most other messaging apps do. So if the WhatsApp application on the phone did not have access to the Internet, the client for computers (and tablets) did not work. The multi-device support beta lets you sync your WhatsApp account on up to four devices at once, a process that involves mapping device identifiers to an account key on WhatsApp's servers in a way that's still encrypted. Now that such sync technology already exists, there's a good chance we'll see it someday.
Well, I have WAps chat on my iPad and it works over the phone
Hello, can you tell me more? I would also like to use the iPad + iPhone connection for WhatsApp. Thank you.
Buy an Android tablet and use WhatsApp for tablets - no problem. App support for ipads is really sad.