This angers me so much. I use it all the time on my iPad. I am one of many!!! ?
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Instagram Head Says iPad App Is Low Priority Because Not Enough People Want It
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It’s funny. Instagram says “we’ve gotten requests for an iPad app, but we don’t think many people want one”. The fact that people are motivated enough to ask for one shows that there’s demand for one.
or even just a native ipad app for whatsapp, then I might start using it more frequently
Meta hasn't even paid attention to its iPad app in the last 3+ years. Why would they bother with Instagram?
You'd think at the very least, they could half-ass it, and just give a full-screen experience to iPad.
You'd think at the very least, they could half-ass it, and just give a full-screen experience to iPad.
If Apple gets to use the "only a very small number of users..." defense, why can't everyone else?
Could instagram please update their Hyperlapse App??? Its been 2 years and most phones are not even supported anymore.
‘Awful’ might be overstating it, but they certainly are smaller images intended to be viewed on small screens, and you see the limits of that on the web.
My sense is that is this was mostly fine for phone photography until around 2018/2019, but as cameras have got better, Insta hasn’t kept pace. I imagine it’s both storage and bandwidth - it’s serious money when you operate at the scale of insta.
Except you can buy something like PCalc, an amazing app from a long time app developer.
Yeah... having to pay for an alternative to instagram is going to make an alternative dead in the water. I'd save your money and cancel now.
1. Instagram has a website; the quality of the images wouldn't look any crappier on an iPad than they currently do in Chrome on a 4K flat panel. Image quality is not their primary concern.
2. Not every iPad is wifi-only. In fact, I'm pretty sure a large contingent of people (especially photographers) opt for a cellular iPad. Meta could still pull plenty of geo-tagged data from those users for advert purposes. And regardless, anybody who has an iPad likely also has a phone - and probably accesses Meta content on their phone, as well. Meta is still getting their marketing data either way.
3. "We get this request a lot" - "not enough interest" - way to trip on your own two feet, moron.
2. Not every iPad is wifi-only. In fact, I'm pretty sure a large contingent of people (especially photographers) opt for a cellular iPad. Meta could still pull plenty of geo-tagged data from those users for advert purposes. And regardless, anybody who has an iPad likely also has a phone - and probably accesses Meta content on their phone, as well. Meta is still getting their marketing data either way.
3. "We get this request a lot" - "not enough interest" - way to trip on your own two feet, moron.
Dumb excuse, I'd think looking at pictures is a higher % of the use case of the iPad than either an iPhone (too small) or Mac (too complex, less portable). The iPad is the best device to look at pictures on.
I doubt it's as easy as it sounds. It's not just creating it, it's maintenance, support, bug fixes, etc. They'd be doubling their work for probably very little reward. It's a small but vocal (and I think mostly older) minority of folks who keep asking for this. It'd be nice, but I honestly can't blame them for not doing it.
I really don't understand this. Firstly it is not complicated to make an app for the iPad so this is nothing more than a lie.
So it is politics. If this is politics then they must balance their loss be excluding iPad users against some other benefit but I don't know what that benefit is.
Lastly I don't understand why anyone wants to use Instagram it is an awful platform where only those that are prepared to sign up to can view the content. Why bother? I don't know because I am not a member of Instagram am I missing something?
So it is politics. If this is politics then they must balance their loss be excluding iPad users against some other benefit but I don't know what that benefit is.
Lastly I don't understand why anyone wants to use Instagram it is an awful platform where only those that are prepared to sign up to can view the content. Why bother? I don't know because I am not a member of Instagram am I missing something?
It's not really a pure photo sharing platform in the way that something like Flickr is. It's a social media platform with a strong photo component. You scroll though your feed and see whatever your friends are posting, which these days is mostly memes or snapshots of whatever is going on in their life. It's definitely used much more by younger people (millennials and teens) than by older folks.
Oddly enough IG has rolled-out a time use limitation yet I think it's only for those 13 and under (to be honest NO 13yr old should be using IG ... so much negative impact on serotonin and other chemicals that basically alter the brain of youth far too intensely than adults. At least some major supervision by parents and a rull week paired use rundown and big conversation between youth and parents how the youths feelings are after each day.
Uh... not anymore. It used to be, but now they went all-in with the reels, video and shopping stuff.
Photography has no relevance in Instagram anymore, and they admit it.
Honestly, Facebook is the most shytty, incoherent and ridiculous company out there regarding software development logic.
The iPhone app of Facebook has dark mode. The iPad version hasn't.
Facebook Messenger is available for iPad, with dark mode, but there is no WhatsApp version.
Instagram is present on iPhone but not iPad.
THAT'S FACEBOOK LOGIC!
Plus, every time they launch a new version the Facebook app for iPhone, we can expect design changes. There's not one single version where they don't mess up and change things around.
At this point I don't even want to think about the real reason why they don't want to make an iPad version of Instagram. I just want them to die quickly, go way, and leave our lives alone. And yes, I admit I still have an Instagram account because it's the only way to share (and get feedback) pics with friends. And I still have a Facebook account to connect with friends and family. But I strongly hope a good alternative will emerge sooner or later...
The iPhone app of Facebook has dark mode. The iPad version hasn't.
Facebook Messenger is available for iPad, with dark mode, but there is no WhatsApp version.
Instagram is present on iPhone but not iPad.
THAT'S FACEBOOK LOGIC!
Plus, every time they launch a new version the Facebook app for iPhone, we can expect design changes. There's not one single version where they don't mess up and change things around.
At this point I don't even want to think about the real reason why they don't want to make an iPad version of Instagram. I just want them to die quickly, go way, and leave our lives alone. And yes, I admit I still have an Instagram account because it's the only way to share (and get feedback) pics with friends. And I still have a Facebook account to connect with friends and family. But I strongly hope a good alternative will emerge sooner or later...
The IG experience on iPad has improved quite a bit since a few years ago. Fonts are much cleaner now, etc. At this point, I would rather IG find a way to support HDR photos and videos. I think that would be a pretty big deal. iPhone HDR photos look amazing but often look strange when flattened to SDR. Just my .02.