A WhatsApp app for iPad may finally be coming

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Has Meta finally realized that some WhatsApp users also have iPads? Credit: picture alliance / Getty images

WhatsApp is dropping hints that it may finally release a standalone iPad app.

On Monday, the company reacted with an :eyes: emoji to a comment on X suggesting that a WhatsApp app should be added to iPad.

Granted, that's as vague as it can be, but it's not the first time the company hinted at working on a standalone app for Apple's tablet. We've heard reports of Meta (the owner of WhatsApp) testing such an app as early as 2021.


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Meta has had a long history of not bringing its popular apps to iPad. Besides not having a standalone WhatsApp app for the device, the company also doesn't have an Instagram app for the iPad, though there are hints that this, too, is coming.

There's no word on a potential iPad app for Threads — the third major social app owned by Meta. The company does have a standalone Facebook app for the iPad, though.

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Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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