iPad users don’t like being forced to use iPhone applications that aren’t adapted for the Apple tablet. Such non-native apps aren’t made for the interface – and they look particularly bad when you in zoom mode used. This was the case with Snapchat, the popular multimedia and photo messenger, for 13 years: The parent company Snap Inc. had not taken the time to adapt the iOS application for iPadOS. Now this is coming to an end: With the recently released Version 13.4.0.41 the application has finally arrived correctly on the tablet.
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Not perfect yet
“Snapchat now offers native support for iPads. This means Snapchat fills the entire screen of your iPad,” the company writes. (Fortunately, the latter does not mean the old zoom mode.) When taking “Snaps” there is now a larger layout area and the new Tabs 2 and 4 show more friends at once. “It’s still the same Snapchat you know and love, just bigger!” the makers cheer.
Snap Inc. did not say why it took so long to complete the adaptation. The optimization for the Apple tablet was not entirely successful – despite the amount of time it took. Snapchat can currently only be used in portrait mode on the iPad, not in landscape mode, and there are still occasional graphic errors. Snapchat was released on the iPhone in 2011. At that time, Apple’s iPad was already on the market. Nevertheless, the platform was apparently not considered interesting enough.
There was something else, Meta?
Another popular iPhone app that a large Silicon Valley company has not yet found the time to adapt for the iPad is Instagram. The first version was released in 2010. Over the years, Meta, formerly Facebook, has repeatedly noted that the tablet app is “not a priority.”
In the meantime, there were even difficulties with using the iPhone app on the iPad. It is unclear whether Meta will change its view of things one day. Technically, implementation would not be a problem at all – especially given the size of the development team. As with Snapchat, the iPad user’s hopes are apparently the last to die.
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