One of the long-pending demands may soon get fulfilled. WhatsApp doesn’t have a native iPad app. There’s hope.

“People have wanted an iPad app for a long time. We’d love to do it,” Will Cathcart, the head of WhatsApp at its parent company Meta, has told The Verge. Cathcart hasn’t committed to a release date but the underlying technology seems to be in place. “We did a lot of work on the technology for supporting multiple devices. Our web and our desktop apps now have that. If I have multi-device on, I can turn my phone off or lose my network connection and still get messages on my desktop. That would be really important for a tablet app, to be able to use the app even if your phone isn’t on. So the underlying technology is there,” he said.

The way WhatsApp encrypts messages has made it difficult to sync chats across devices over the Internet like most other messaging apps work. That seems to have been solved. At the moment, WhatsApp is available on the iPhone, the desktop, and the web, but an iPad-specific app has been left out.

Hopefully, a native iPad app for Instagram is also in the works. Fingers crossed!