After years of ready, WhatsApp lastly landed on the iPad on Tuesday. Now you can use Meta’s standard messaging service in your iPad alongside different gadgets.
Like on the Mac, WhatsApp’s iPad app received’t allow you to register with a brand new quantity. It capabilities solely as a companion system linked to a major cellphone.
WhatsApp’s iPad second is right here
Meta first hinted at WhatsApp’s arrival on the iPad on X lower than 24 hours in the past, with a playful eyes emoji on a quote retweet.
Not like WhatsApp for iPhone, you possibly can solely use the iPad app in companion mode. This implies it can hyperlink to the WhatsApp account working in your cellphone; you possibly can’t register with a separate quantity even when your iPad options mobile connectivity.
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In any other case, the expertise is identical as on the iPhone. You’ll be able to reply to non-public messages or group chats, make video calls with as much as 32 individuals, and ship voice notes. Even display screen sharing works throughout video calls, and you need to use both the entrance or rear digicam whereas on calls.
To arrange WhatsApp in your iPad, comply with the identical course of as different companion gadgets. It’s essential scan the QR code displayed on the iPad utilizing WhatsApp in your major cellphone. It really works seamlessly whether or not you’re utilizing an iPhone or an Android system.
After the preliminary message syncing, WhatsApp on iPad will work so long as the pill has an energetic web connection. You’ll even have entry to talk lock, with end-to-end encryption getting used for all conversations.
To make multitasking simpler, WhatsApp for iPad helps Stage Supervisor, Break up View, and Slide Over on appropriate fashions.
WhatsApp made iPad customers wait too lengthy
For years, WhatsApp customers urged Meta to launch a correct iPad app. Indicators of the corporate engaged on an iPad app first surfaced in 2019, however nothing occurred afterward. Then, in early 2022, WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart stated he “would love” to launch a devoted iPad app, renewing consumer hopes. It solely took three years for the app to lastly arrive. It comes after WhatsApp ran a TestFlight beta of the iPad app for the final two years.
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) Might 26, 2025
Devoted iPad app will enhance WhatsApp’s recognition within the U.S.
Over the previous couple of years, Meta has labored to enhance the WhatsApp messaging expertise throughout all platforms considerably. It rebuilt the Mac app in 2023 to ship sooner efficiency and added options, like group audio and video calling. Plus, the messaging platform itself gained helpful options, together with multi-account help, voice message transcription, increased high quality voice and video calls, and extra.
WhatsApp’s iPhone app additionally acquired a refresh final yr, giving it a contemporary feel and appear.
In July 2024, WhatsApp surpassed the 100 million month-to-month energetic customers mark within the U.S. Fast enhancements, together with a devoted iPad app, will solely speed up the platform’s progress and adoption within the nation.
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