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Instagram Finally Comes to iPad

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The Instagram app is expanding to the iPad at long last, with Instagram releasing a dedicated iPad app as of today.

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Instagram for iPad focuses on Reels, and when opening the app, it will go directly to the Reels page. Stories will be available at the top of the interface, with support for messaging as well.

There is a dedicated Following tab that provides different filtering options. "All" will display recommended posts and reels from accounts you follow, while "Friends" will show recommended posts from accounts you follow and that follow you back. The "Latest" option will show chronological posts and reels from accounts that you follow.

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Instagram for iPad was designed to take advantage of a larger display area, providing access to more features with fewer taps. Instagram says that people can catch up on messages and notifications using layouts that display both tabs at the same time, and when you watch reels, you can expand the comments while the reel stays at full size.

The Instagram app for the iPad is rolling out now, and it is available on iPads that support iPadOS 15.1 and later.

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Trillion dollar company outsourced a web app to Fiver. This is literally the future we are hurdling towards now huh? Crap apps. Like what is you design team working on? Serious question. Do you even have one Meta??
 
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Still view Instagram and have had an account since before Facebook bought them, but haven't posted since 2023. Checked this on a coworkers iPad and it defaults to Reels... what the, really?

Sadly, I can only use in a browser (on my Mac and with a filtering extension) these days, as Meta really wants to push reels and other influencer crap. I only want to see what my friends post, and nothing else....ever.

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Kinda opening myself up to ridicule with this comment, but I hope they don’t block it from being able to be downloaded on Apple Vision Pro, although they probably will in the same vein as Google is blocking YouTube.

Social media is indeed a hellscape, but it would be nice to at least have the option to surf it inside AVP. Right now, the only native option is TikTok, their largest competitor apparently.
 
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I used it quite a bit back when it was photo-centric, but when I dropped FB eight or nine years ago I dropped Insta too.

But for those who have waited an eternity for it to come to their iPad, I rejoice with you.
 
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Instagram is the entire reason I bought an iPad Pro. I hope it retains the full functionality of the existing iOS app. Using Instagram in browser was better in some aspects but missing many of the features that I needed in Instagram in the first place. I don’t trust them to make the iPad app have functional parity with iOS. Otherwise I hope there is a way to retain use of the existing app.
 
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