WhatsApp Teases Long-Awaited iPad App

The popular messaging app WhatsApp has teased a long-awaited iPad app, which would be offered alongside its existing iPhone and Mac apps.

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The official WhatsApp account on X today reacted with an eyes emoji to a post saying that WhatsApp should release an iPad app. This could be a hint that Meta is gearing up to release WhatsApp for iPad, which has already been available for beta testing via TestFlight for nearly two years. File this news under "finally."

With an Instagram app for the iPad also reportedly in the works, it appears that Meta is at last embracing the iPad for more of its most popular apps.

In addition to WhatsApp and Instagram, Meta owns Facebook and Threads. There is an iPad app for Facebook, but the Threads app remains iPhone only.

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Top Rated Comments

cgs1xx Avatar
1 day ago at 10:32 am
If it still needs full access to your contact list to work, it's still a no I'm afraid :)
Score: 20 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sdugoten Avatar
1 day ago at 12:15 pm

Why would anyone in 2025 want to put a Meta product on any device? What kind of glutton for punishment are these people? Do you like being a sheep? A product? Do you not care about your privacy or the privacy of your entire contact list, what you do, where you go? I don't get why someone would give themselves over to a company as evil as Facebook. There is no excuses unless you're just a slave to shiny products, when, much as someone is going to try to make excuses, there are alternatives right down to just SMS/MMS.
In a lot of country other that US, Whatsapp = the default messaging app. If you don't use it, you are basically cutting yourself from everyone else. A lot of company in those country also use whatsapp as a way for team messaging app.

The default "Message" app in IOS is not used at all other than receiving safekey code from bank in a lot of country around the globe. For example, Japan don't use "Message" nor "Whatsapp", they use Line. So, if the server for Line is down in Japan for whatever reason, that means EVERYONE in Japan lost the way to contact ppl on phone. Yes, I really mean EVERYONE in Japan.

Not everyone use "Message" app, esepcially those who don't live in the States. The "default" messaging app could be different around the globe.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
yuvaldv1 Avatar
1 day ago at 10:40 am

If it still needs full access to your contact list to work, it's still a no I'm afraid :)
It's a messaging app, what do you expect?
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
42545 Avatar
1 day ago at 11:10 am
In some countries WhatsApp is as popular and indispensable as iMessenger in the US. Everyone uses it, so you can't break away.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
JCCL Avatar
1 day ago at 11:23 am

Nice of them to finally make an iPad app right as tech companies are starting to move away from touchscreens and towards augmented reality (Apple with the Vision Pro, Meta and Google with smartglasses ('https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/23/the-macrumors-show-google-and-openai-step-up-ai/'), etc) ?
lol based on the success of the Vision Pro and the Smartglasses, I don’t think touchscreen based devices are going away anytime soon.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Populus Avatar
1 day ago at 11:43 am

Why would anyone in 2025 want to put a Meta product on any device? What kind of glutton for punishment are these people? Do you like being a sheep? A product? Do you not care about your privacy or the privacy of your entire contact list, what you do, where you go? I don't get why someone would give themselves over to a company as evil as Facebook. There is no excuses unless you're just a slave to shiny products, when, much as someone is going to try to make excuses, there are alternatives right down to just SMS/MMS.
Sometimes it is that, or lose ties and communication with lots of people that use WhattsApp as the default communication tool. Sadly.

However, thanks to iOS sandboxing, installing a Meta app shouldn’t be a problem, right? RIGHT?
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)