Subj : At long last, Instagram finally gets around to launching an offic
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Date : Wed Sep 03 2025 17:15:09

At long last, Instagram finally gets around to launching an official iPad app

Date:
Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Description:
Instagram for the iPad has been a long time coming, but the wait is over  and 
there's a new tab to explore.

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m for the iPad is available now It arrives 14 years after the original iPhone 
app launch The app includes a new Following tab 

It's been one of the strangest anomalies in tech for several years, the lack 
of an official Instagram app for the iPad, but Meta's engineers have finally 
found time to right this wrong: Instagram for the iPad is available now. 

If you own one of Apple's tablets, you can now settle back and enjoy 
Instagram Feeds, Stories, and Reels on a larger screen. Reels will be what 
pop up first, because Instagram reckons these are perfect for lean-back 
entertainment (and also because... TikTok). 

"People have asked for this for a while," says the announcement blog post 
with a straight face. "We've taken the time to design an experience that 
optimizes your favorite parts of Instagram for a bigger screen." 

Instagram for iOS made its debut in February 2011, and requests for an iPad 
app started almost immediately. While apps gradually appeared for Android, 
the web, and even Windows Mobile over the years, demands for an iPad app were 
politely swatted away . A new Following tab There's a brand new Following tab 
(Image credit: Meta) 

You get a full suite of features for creating new content in the iPad app, 
just as you do in the iPhone equivalent. You can also access your Instagram 
inbox (with the conversation list and the chats themselves side by side) and 
your activity and notification feeds. 

There is one new screen here, called Following. It has three tabs: All (posts 
from accounts you follow), Friends (posts from people you follow and who 
follow you back), and Latest (posts from accounts you follow, in 
chronological order). 

It'll be interesting to see if this tab makes its way into Instagram's other 
apps: As per the announcement, it was introduced in response to "requests for 
easier ways to make sure you're not missing updates from your favorite 
accounts". 

Based on a quick glance at the app, it seems to do a decent job of making use 
of the extra screen space. You should find the Instagram app for iPad 
available now in the Apple App Store, and it can be downloaded for free for 
any tablet running iPadOS 15.1 or later. You might also like The Instagram 
for iPad launch had been leaked Maybe you now need one of the best iPads 
Instagram launches Blends, a new custom Reels feed



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/instagram/at-long-last-instagram-finally-g
ets-around-to-launching-an-official-ipad-app


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