Instagram launched an iPad app. Finally.

Instagram has, mercifully, made an iPad app some 15 years after each the pill and social media web site launched.

You’ll be able to download the app now, and there are some vital variations between the iPhone and iPad expertise. Most notably, the iPad app takes customers on to Reels. It makes some sense, contemplating you may choose to look at video content material on an even bigger display.

Different options will really feel extra acquainted, like Tales showing atop your display. There’s additionally a following tab that’ll allow you to peruse by posts from the oldsters who matter most. In our preliminary scrolling, the app works greatest in a portrait orientation, as that is how Instagram content material is supposed to be considered.

The brand new Instagram iPad app opens instantly on Reels.
Credit score: Screenshot: Timothy Beck Werth / Instagram

The Following tab.
Credit score: Screenshot: Timothy Beck Werth / Instagram

Instagram wrote in a press launch that it additionally optimized the iPad expertise by protecting the larger display in thoughts.

It wrote:

“When designing Instagram for iPad, we wished to make the most of the larger display to provide individuals extra options with fewer faucets, whereas protecting it easy. We’ve made it simpler to compensate for your messages and notifications with layouts that show each tabs. While you watch reels, you may broaden the feedback whereas the reel stays at full dimension, making it straightforward to compensate for the very best reactions with out lacking a second.”

Credit score: Meta

Instagram lastly launching an iPad app is an enormous change-in-tune. CEO Adam Mosseri wrote on X in 2022 that an iPad app was “not a sufficiently big group of individuals to be a precedence” and that the corporate was “hoping to get to it in some unspecified time in the future.”