WhatsApp launches official iPad app, now available on App Store

WhatsApp for iPad has just launched on the App Store. For the first time ever, iPad users can get a native WhatsApp experience on Apple’s tablet. Here are the details.

Meta, the owner of WhatsApp, has a history of not offering iPad versions of its social apps.

Instagram famously (infamously?) has never been available on iPad. Though supposedly that may change soon.

But first, Meta’s long streak of ignoring the iPad ends for one significant app: WhatsApp for iPad is…