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Instagram Finally Comes to iPad
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1. Will you have the same "Use Latest App" message when you try to open view-once photos in DMs, basically forcing you to grab the iPhone?
2. Also, can you upload stories with all stickers and music, just like on the phone?
2. Also, can you upload stories with all stickers and music, just like on the phone?
SocialFocus only works in the browser. You can try the SCInsta mod if you can sign IPAs on your device, if you really need to keep the app. Works beautifully, seamlessly.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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Cool, I guess I'll go downl-
oh, no thanks.
Can it be made smaller than… allthat? 
I only ever needed an iPhone’s amount of Instagram on my iPad, so hope it’s still an option!
I only ever needed an iPhone’s amount of Instagram on my iPad, so hope it’s still an option!
now I don’t need this update anymore as Instagram looks better with iPadOS new windows manager.
apple shouldn't allow developers to block their apps from running on it... it should just run all iPad apps. that way we've have Facebook too. so sick of how the reactions barely work on safari.
Finally!! Great that it is now designed for iPad. Will be updating it right away. Took a very long time.
It seems sort of crippled...it dumps you into reels and the only post-scrolling option is those who you follow.
Where's the ability to just doom-scroll through all the posts (not just those who you follow)?
So far, disappointing.
Where's the ability to just doom-scroll through all the posts (not just those who you follow)?
So far, disappointing.
First Calculator and now Instagram. We are truly living in the golden age! 😂
Yeah I mean it took them fifteen years. They probably only used a single engineer on this project so that they wouldn't have to declare bankruptcy.
This AND Apple released an iPad calculator a year ago?!! We are truly living in the future.
The Instagram app is expanding to the iPad at long last, with Instagram releasing a dedicated iPad app as of today.
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.
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.
Article Link: Instagram Finally Comes to iPad
Now to wait for GTA VI….at some point.
"We made the perfect iPad app for staring at ads and personal content from people that have nothing to do with you!"
Oh. Wait. If it only lets you scroll your actual feed, and not 'suggested' stuff, I might give it a try after all.
In the early days of Instagram, well before it got bought by Facebook, I signed up to follow literally hundreds of landscape and nature photographers, especially those working with National Geographic. That was back before NG got sold and all that, of course. I followed a few people I knew, too, but I ended up using it as my escape from doom-scrolling early Twitter. I didn't think of it as "social," but as a competitor for Flickr. Then IG got bought and started shoving suggested stuff at me while actively suppressing the posts of people I actually wanted to hear from. The rare times I check it now are mostly through the website. Which still sounds better, actually.
Well they surely have a few Apple engineers to work on it now
You do realise this is on the developer not Apple, right??