BBM for Android and iOS updated, will now support iPad and iPod touch

BlackBerry has released an update to its cross-platform messaging app BBM for iOS and Android bringing additional features to the app on both the platforms. Most importantly, the BBM for iOS app finally brings in support for iPad and iPod touch after being iPhone-only for a while.

As far as BBM for Android goes, the Canadian company has now provided for support for BBM Contact Categories with this update. It is also bringing along BBM Group List sorting and filtering tweaks that will help you run through your groups better. Adding more friends will now become easier with this update as BlackBerry has added a few more options to be able to share their BBM pin barcodes better.

More ways to share pins

There’s a new social integration rolling out with the BBM for Android update, thanks to which you will be able to find and add friends from other social networking websites who also use BBM. The update also has bug fixes along with it but the most important one of them all involves fixing an issue where some users had been experiencing higher battery use on their Android phones.

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The update for BBM for iOS is the biggest by far. Support has been added for iPod and iPad devices running on both iOS 6 and iOS 7. This update too includes the ability to share your BBM Pin barcodes better as well as find friends on other social networking websites. The company has fixed an issue because of which users were being unable to see some BBM contact names. There is also an improvement in the right-to-left language support for BBM.

If you don’t have the app on your devices already, you can download BBM for Android from the Google Play Store and BBM for iOS from the App Store.