Instagram app

Emlyn_Dewar · 11 Jan 2023 at 16:15

I'm not sure if I'm being really stupid here, but is the Instagram app really as broken and lame as it appears on iOS (for an ipad user)?

My phones VPN is acting up, so I installed the app on iPad and it's one of the worst things I've ever seen. Perhaps worse than the experience on my Pixel C many years ago.
In a browser it's ok, but for one of the most used apps around, is the iPad app genuinely a pile of **** or have I done something wrong?

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Jan 2023 at 16:20

what you using an iphone 4 or an ipad 1?

Emlyn_Dewar · 11 Jan 2023 at 17:07

12" ipad pro from a couple years back.
I didn't see an option for a specific ipad app. It's just a shrunk screen mess.

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Jan 2023 at 17:11

Emlyn_Dewar said:
12" ipad pro from a couple years back.
I didn't see an option for a specific ipad app. It's just a shrunk screen mess.

There is no full app for the iPad. Try the browser.

Feek · 11 Jan 2023 at 17:11

Emlyn_Dewar said:
I didn't see an option for a specific ipad app. It's just a shrunk screen mess.

Is it a small app showing in the centre of the iPad screen? Last time I saw that was years ago when I loaded an iPhone app onto an iPad.

Thekwango · 11 Jan 2023 at 17:11

uninstall instagram. never log in to it again, and have them delete your data under the right to be forgotten. problem solved, thank me later

Feek · 11 Jan 2023 at 17:12

GaryTheSnail said:
There is no full app for the iPad. Try the browser.

And there's the answer.

Emlyn_Dewar · 11 Jan 2023 at 17:15

Feek said:
And there's the answer.

Seems like such a mess from one of the biggest apps around.

As much as I'd like to never use Instagram ever. It's the only way I have to speak with some friends back home, so it's the necessary social media evil. If I lived in the UK, it would be binned off.

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Jan 2023 at 17:28

Emlyn_Dewar said:
Seems like such a mess from one of the biggest apps around.

It's not developed for the iPad. There is no app for the ipad. It might be installable but as I said.

Use the browser.

Emlyn_Dewar · 11 Jan 2023 at 17:34

Yes, I'm aware I can use the browser. And the browser is 500000% better than the app. I'm just surprised that an app this popular and this big is so poorly done.
If only Instagram/Meta weren't a super small, indie company, and could afford to develop a tablet app.

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Jan 2023 at 18:24

Emlyn_Dewar said:
and could afford to develop a tablet app.

You would think so wouldn't you.

Rroff · 11 Jan 2023 at 18:36

TBH the Android app is fairly woeful and the desktop site, though they've made some efforts with it lately, is still far from anything other than a half-arsed job. I'm always surprised it has picked up the popularity it has.