WhatsApp exec says company 'would love' to release an iPad app at some point – 9to5Mac

WhatsApp users around the world know that one of the service’s biggest limitations is its lack of an iPad application. In a new interview with The Verge today, however, the head of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, addressed this limitation, saying that the company “would love” to launch an iPad app at some point. While Cathcart didn’t dive into specifics, he did acknowledge that people have long been calling on WhatsApp to make an iPad app: “People have wanted an iPad app for a long time.” Will 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.” As we’ve covered multiple times at 9to5Mac, WhatsApp has been working on the underlying multi-device support required for an iPad app for a while now. In this week’s interview, Cathcart refers to this work and hints that it was the first step in the process towards bringing WhatsApp to the iPad. “We did a lot of work on the technology for supporting multiple devices,” Cathcart said, referencing the rollout of opt-in, multi-device support for WhatsApp last year. “Our web and our desktop apps now have…
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