Snapchat Launches Native iPad App

Excellent news for Snapchat entrepreneurs, in addition to creators growing AR experiences for the app, with the platform now reformatted particularly for iPad screens.

As per the most recent iOS replace notes on the Snapchat app:

“Snapchat now affords native assist for iPad! Which means that Snapchat will fill an iPad’s full display, offering you with a bigger canvas when capturing Snaps and permitting you to see extra mates on the 2nd and 4th tabs.”

To be clear, Snapchat has been accessible on iPad for a while, however it’s basically a re-skinned model of the cellular app, scaled up for bigger iPad screens.

As you may see on this picture, the iPad model of the app comes with black bars alongside the edges, in an effort to match the display into the iPad format. There are additionally different show limits that may trigger glitches in presentation, as a result of the app that you simply’re seeing isn’t made for the larger iPad show.

However now, with this replace, you’ll have a full-sized, absolutely purposeful model of the app, constructed particularly for the bigger iPad display. That’ll clearly improve Snapchat’s utilization and accessibility, however as famous, it might additionally make it a superb testing floor for brand new advertisements and in-app experiences, as you’ll have the ability to view them in a bigger format.

You’ll additionally have the ability to take a look at out your AR Snap Lens experiences on a bigger display.

As such, it’s a superb replace, which is able to present new entry concerns for Snap, and might be a helpful consideration to bear in mind to your testing processes.

So subsequent time you’re attempting out a brand new Snap AR expertise, take a look at it on iPad, and see if that reveals up any further imperfections which might not be as noticeable on smaller gadgets.