At long last, Instagram finally gets around to launching an official iPad app

• Instagram for the iPad is available now
• It arrives 14 years after the original iPhone app launch
• The app includes a new Following tab

It's been one of the strangest anomalies in tech for several years, the lack of an official Instagram app for the iPad, but Meta's engineers have finally found time to right this wrong: Instagram for the iPad is available now.

If you own one of Apple's tablets, you can now settle back and enjoy Instagram Feeds, Stories, and Reels on a larger screen. Reels will be what pop up first, because Instagram reckons these are perfect for lean-back entertainment (and also because... TikTok).

"People have asked for this for a while," says the announcement blog post with a straight face. "We've taken the time to design an experience that optimizes your favorite parts of Instagram for a bigger screen."