Whats app for ipad
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Timmos1974

Original Poster:

314 posts

71 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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Hi

Ive seem to lost whats app on my ipad….the only app i found seems to be a paying one.

Any ideas ? Thanks

Sixpackpert

4,888 posts

230 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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WhatsApp isn’t available on the iPad.

essayer

10,207 posts

210 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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web.whatsapp.com then “Add to Home Screen” ?

AB

18,485 posts

211 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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I definitely used to have an app, but I don't use my iPad much anymore, was always very clunky though.

https://web.whatsapp.com/ will work.

LimaDelta

7,409 posts

234 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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No App. I suspect many people would bin off their phones and just use Whatsapp via iPad if it was a viable option.

Steve Campbell

2,245 posts

184 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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essayer said:
web.whatsapp.com then “Add to Home Screen” ?
No app but this is the answer >

craig1912

4,023 posts

128 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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AB said:
I definitely used to have an app, but I don't use my iPad much anymore, was always very clunky though.

https://web.whatsapp.com/ will work.
Yep there was a third party app that was free. Seems to have been rebranded as “Dual Messenger” and is now a paid for app.

skeeterm5

4,272 posts

204 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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Steve Campbell said:
No app but this is the answer >
Each time I re click on the Home Screen icon after a while it takes me to the “link device qr” page.

Am I missing something about keeping it open/synched?

abzmike

10,438 posts

122 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2024
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LimaDelta said:
No App. I suspect many people would bin off their phones and just use Whatsapp via iPad if it was a viable option.
There’s a PC app and that doesn’t stop folk using it on thier phones…

LimaDelta

7,409 posts

234 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2024
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abzmike said:
There’s a PC app and that doesn’t stop folk using it on thier phones…
A PC is hardly an iPhone alternative, whereas an iPad conceivably is (and half the price).

Brainpox

4,162 posts

167 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2024
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LimaDelta said:
No App. I suspect many people would bin off their phones and just use Whatsapp via iPad if it was a viable option.
Yeah people really want to carry their iPad everywhere. Smartphone usage has tailed off. Just needs that pesky WhatsApp iPad app to kill the market completely. What is Zuckerberg thinking?

funinhounslow

1,899 posts

158 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2024
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Brainpox said:
LimaDelta said:
No App. I suspect many people would bin off their phones and just use Whatsapp via iPad if it was a viable option.
Yeah people really want to carry their iPad everywhere. Smartphone usage has tailed off. Just needs that pesky WhatsApp iPad app to kill the market completely. What is Zuckerberg thinking?
New iPad mini is £649 wifi and cellular. 128gb memory, A17 pro chip and 8.3" screen.

Seems better value than an iPhone - can you make calls via iMessage and WhatsApp web?

Sixpackpert

4,888 posts

230 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2024
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funinhounslow said:
Brainpox said:
LimaDelta said:
No App. I suspect many people would bin off their phones and just use Whatsapp via iPad if it was a viable option.
Yeah people really want to carry their iPad everywhere. Smartphone usage has tailed off. Just needs that pesky WhatsApp iPad app to kill the market completely. What is Zuckerberg thinking?
New iPad mini is £649 wifi and cellular. 128gb memory, A17 pro chip and 8.3" screen.

Seems better value than an iPhone - can you make calls via iMessage and WhatsApp web?
It's still not as convenient as a phone, it doesn't exactly slip into your pocket, or do you have a man bag for it?

twing

5,465 posts

147 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2024
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Do the "Linked Devices". The pad will remember for quite a while so you won't have to link every time.

abzmike

10,438 posts

122 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2024
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Sixpackpert said:
funinhounslow said:
Brainpox said:
LimaDelta said:
No App. I suspect many people would bin off their phones and just use Whatsapp via iPad if it was a viable option.
Yeah people really want to carry their iPad everywhere. Smartphone usage has tailed off. Just needs that pesky WhatsApp iPad app to kill the market completely. What is Zuckerberg thinking?
New iPad mini is £649 wifi and cellular. 128gb memory, A17 pro chip and 8.3" screen.

Seems better value than an iPhone - can you make calls via iMessage and WhatsApp web?
It's still not as convenient as a phone, it doesn't exactly slip into your pocket, or do you have a man bag for it?
I’ve spent too much of the past week in airports - everyone has a phone, only a few folk using iPads to watch movies.