After a decade and a half of iPad users staring at a stretched phone app, Instagram has finally launched a native iPad app—available worldwide on the App Store. Yes, you can now doomscroll on a bigger screen.

For years, Instagram treated the iPad like it didn’t exist. The old app simply blew up the iPhone version, leaving awkward gaps on the sides and sometimes posting photos in low resolution. Meanwhile, Meta somehow managed to optimize Instagram for folding Android phones before the iPad.

The new iPad app (iPadOS 15.1 and later) fixes that. Reels are front and center, Stories remain at the top, and a sidebar menu makes navigation slightly less painful.

The Following tab is a standout addition, divided into:

• All: Recommended posts and reels from accounts you follow.

• Friends: Posts from accounts that follow you back.

• Latest: A reverse-chronological feed—the “novel” idea Instagram abandoned in 2016.

Messaging now has a split-screen layout, and comments appear next to Reels instead of covering the video. In short, fewer taps are required to get lost in other people’s lives on a bigger screen.

After 15 years, Instagram finally realized that iPad users exist—and yes, you can finally scroll endlessly in HD.