Long wait: Snapchat is coming to the iPad

iPad users don’t like it when they are forced to use iPhone applications that are not optimized for Apple tablets. Such non-native apps are not designed for the interface – and they look especially bad when you use them in zoom mode used. The popular multimedia and photo messenger Snapchat had the same situation for its entire 13 years: parent company Snap Inc. did not take the time to adapt the iOS application to iPadOS. Now it ends: with a recently published Version 13.4.0.41 Finally the app loaded correctly on the tablet.

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Not complete yet

“Snapchat now offers native support for iPad. This means Snapchat will fill the entire screen of your iPad,” the company writes. (Fortunately, the latter doesn’t mean the old zoom mode.) There’s now a larger layout area when taking a “Snap” and with the new Tabs 2 and 4, more friends are displayed at the same time. “It’s still the same Snapchat you know and love, just make the creators happy!”

Snap Inc. did not explain why it took so long to complete the adjustment. The optimization for Apple tablets was also not fully optimal despite the long time. You can currently use Snapchat on the iPad only in portrait format, not landscape format, and there are still occasional graphical errors. Snapchat was released on the iPhone in 2011. At this time, Apple’s iPad was already on the market. Nevertheless, the platform was apparently not considered interesting enough.

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Was there anything else, Meta?

Another popular iPhone app that a major Silicon Valley company has not yet found time to adapt for the iPad is Instagram. The first version appeared here in 2010. Over the years, Meta, formerly Facebook, repeatedly noted that the tablet app was “not a priority.”

Meanwhile, using the iPhone app on the iPad also caused problems. It is unclear whether Meta will someday change its approach to things. Technically, the implementation would not be a problem at all – especially due to the size of the development team. As with Snapchat, the following clearly applies: iPad users’ hope eventually dies.

(B.Sc.)