The Data‘s Kaya Yurieff and Kalley Huang in April reported that Meta was engaged on a long-awaited Instagram app for iPads.
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman corroborated the report in his Energy On e-newsletter right this moment.
Gurman stated that Meta workers are “actively testing” Instagram for the iPad, and he expects the app to be launched this yr, barring any setbacks.
Meta has supplied a Fb app for iPads since 2011, however it had largely averted providing apps for the machine in any other case. That tune lastly appears to be altering, as the corporate launched a WhatsApp app for iPads final week, and there at the moment are a number of sources who’ve claimed that an Instagram app for iPads is within the pipeline too.
There isn’t a phrase but on whether or not Meta plans to launch an iPad app for Threads as nicely.
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