WhatsApp’s iPad app is right here, and it is precisely what you’d anticipate

WhatsApp wasn’t kidding with that teaser yesterday — a devoted iPad app for Meta’s social networking platform adopted simply hours later.

This has been a very long time coming — WhatsApp has been round for 15 years, and it is by no means had a standalone iPad app. So now that it is right here, is it any good? We examine.

WhatsApp iPad app: Who’s this factor for?

I by no means actually understood Meta’s timidness about making the app for the world’s hottest pill. My logic is straightforward: When you’re an iPad person, and you are a WhatsApp person, generally you may be doing issues in your iPad and you may need to open up WhatsApp and do issues there, and you may need the expertise to be as clean as attainable. Given how large Meta and WhatsApp are, lots of people anticipate an iPad app to exist, they usually anticipate it to be good.

It solely took you 15 years, guys.
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On this specific case, it means you may need the WhatsApp iPad app to be just about the identical as in your iPhone, solely nicer to have a look at, and maybe with some added options that benefit from the iPad’s giant show.

Sure, you’ll be able to all the time fireplace up a browser window in your iPad and log into WhatsApp’s internet model, nevertheless it simply is not nearly as good because the standalone app.

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WhatsApp iPad app: Higher than messaging in your cellphone

The WhatsApp app on the iPad has a really related format as on my cellphone, with the underside menu consisting of Updates, Calls, Communities, Chats, and Settings being precisely the identical.

I’ve tried WhatsApp out on a 13-inch iPad Air, and the massive show does make a distinction. Lately, my household, mates, and the communities I comply with ship a number of pictures and movies on WhatsApp, and seeing them on a crisp, 13-inch show is fairly nice — although the larger canvas does reveal how small and pixelated among the shared memes actually are.

Seems like Meta’s Llama AI is in control.
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Maybe the very best characteristic is the two-column view, which helps you to see your chats on the left, and the content material of a specific chat on the fitting. On the cellphone, you must select between one or the opposite, even once you flip the cellphone into panorama mode.

WhatsApp iPad app: The rest?

Not in the best way of any particular new options throughout the app. However the iPad itself permits for some cool methods to make use of WhatsApp. For instance, the WhatsApp app helps Stage Supervisor, Slide Over, and Cut up View, and having each WhatsApp and Slack (my two foremost messaging apps) open side-by-side is fairly nice. Apple’s Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil are additionally supported.

It is also price noting that on the WhatsApp app for iPad, you’ll be able to be a part of audio and video calls (with as much as 32 individuals), which is not attainable on the net model of WhatsApp. And relating to video calls with numerous contributors, your eyes will thanks should you’re doing it in your iPad as an alternative of the cellphone.

Lastly, all your chats might be synced between all your units, together with the iPad, the iPhone, and Mac.