Saving a transparent art piece on my iPad appears white

I haven't used transparent much lately, so I'm not sure I'm understanding. It seems like white may just be the way the iPad is rendering "transparent?" Another program I use shows the transparent area as gray. I tried making a png file with transparency on my Mac, and I saved it to iCloud Drive. Then I looked at it on my iPhone and iPad, and the only difference was that white was used instead of gray. I just looked directly at the file-- I didn't try to view it in Photos, since Photos doesn't do transparent. The file itself, when loaded again on my Mac, still has transparent areas.

What apps are you using?

I think that when you're sending this art to places you may have to get what you want and flatten it before sending. "jpeg" is pretty much the standard for transmitting images, and as you know (since you're using png) jpeg doesn't do layers and transparency.

Using Photos and an example, it looks to me like when I import a picture to Photos, it seems to work OK, but exporting it flattens the picture even in png format.( Of course, Photos always keeps the original, so exporting the original keeps the transparency.) Are you sure Instagram can use images with layers or transparency?

I'd say, try it and see.

Transparent sections allow a background to peak through. What is the background you want to see? Just curious…