WhatsApp Chief Confirms iPad App Is Possibility

WhatsApp's Chief Will Cathcart announced, on Saturday, that they are going to release an iPad app soon.

“People have wanted an iPad app for a long time.” Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp at its parent company Meta, told The Verge during an interview this week tied to a new US marketing push for the messaging app. “We’d love to do it.”

Just like the Instagram, a version of WhatsApp for Apple’s tablet has long eluded users despite being a heavily requested feature.

Cathcart added that web and desktop apps now have that feature. "If I have multi-device on, I can turn my phone off or lose my network connection and still get messages on my desktop."

He affirmed that the feature would be really important for a tablet app, to be able to use the app even if your phone isn’t on.

At the beginning of the year, WABetaInfo reported that the app allowed users to transfer their chat history from Android to iOS.

The feature was first spotted in the latest WhatsApp beta version 22.2.74 for iOS, and appears to promote WABetaInfo’s previous discovery in beta version 2.21.20.11 for Android.

Both updates aim at a feature that may let you transfer your WhatsApp chats from Android to iOS using the Move to iOS app.