“People have asked for this for a while…” reads Instagram’s September 3 announcement. Yeah, Instagram. People have been asking for this for ages. “…and we’ve taken the time to design an experience that optimizes your favorite parts of Instagram for a bigger screen.”

Back before Apple moved the iPad off the iPhone’s iOS and over to iPadOS, its own operating system, you could use the iOS version of the Instagram app on an iPad, but it was clunky using it on a screen that was several times as big as the phones for which it was designed.

And then in 2019, iPadOS came along, and people assumed there’d be an Instagram app for it soon enough. After six long years of waiting, it’s finally here.

Yes, Instagram Finally Has a Proper iPad App

It’s great and all that Meta (which owns Instagram, as

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