According to the latest report, it is 2021 and Instagram still has not launched an iPad application. Instead, users have to choose unqualified Web or iPhone applications instead. In a new Q&A session this weekend, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri talked about the continuing lack of iPad apps, and it doesn’t sound like things will change anytime soon…
In answer to the simple question, Where is Instagram’s iPad app? Mosseri explained:
I spent a little time on the iPad, but I still don’t have an iPad app for Instagram. It would be great if I could do this, but there are so many things to do and there are only so many people, so it has no plans to be selected.
At this point, it’s hard to say whether Instagram is mocking us by refusing to make an iPad app. It is one of the most frequently requested features in social networks, even dating back to the era before Facebook. As 9to5Mac reported a few years ago:
It makes a lot of sense. Instagram is great for sharing our favorite photos and videos, and the iPad is great for enjoying these two things. Instagram Stories is even enjoyable (although it is openly available from Snapchat Plagiarism). IGTV seems to be completely useless, but if there is a tablet version, it would be great.
Facebook and Instagram are aware of the existence of the iPad. Facebook supports Facebook and Messenger on the iPad, and Instagram even has two iPad camera apps—Hyperlapse and Boomerang—but there is no main app you want.
To make matters worse, Instagram announced earlier this year that users can now post to social networks from Web pages, but the iPad is excluded, despite its desktop-level browser. Therefore, you can post to Instagram from PC or Mac, but not from your iPad.
Fortunately, a change in iPadOS 15 does make it less frustrating to use Instagram and the other only iPhone apps on the iPad. With iPadOS 15, pure iPhone applications can now run in landscape mode. The proportionally enlarged iPhone application maintains its portrait layout and can be rotated like an iPad application. We don’t know why Instagram does not release the iPad application, but Apple has not officially released the iPad weather application, perhaps this is also puzzling.
