WhatsApp stopping support on millions of smartphones – are you affected?
Tech.ThaiVisa are reporting that WhatsApp has quietly announced that it will stop working on a number of iPhones and Android devices.
The Facebook-owned messaging platform, which boasts 1.5 billion users worldwide, will cut off millions of users from its service within the next two years.
WhatsApp announced the death knell for older smartphones in a blog post titled “support for older operating systems”. In the post, the company reveals that it will stop supporting the following operating systems from 1 Feb 2020:
• Android Gingerbread versions 2.3.7 and older
• iOS 7 and older
Anyone using a Nokia S40 has until 31 December 31 2018 to upgrade or lose access to WhatsApp. WhatsApp also warned that while users will still be able to access WhatsApp, some features may stop working in the meantime as they are no longer “actively developing” for the operating systems. While it it was launched back in 2010, Android Gingerbread version 2.3.7 is still used on 6 million phones worldwide.
In December, WhatsApp stopped supporting Blackberry OS and Windows 8.0 and older.
Also no longer supported are:
• Android versions older than 2.3.3
• Windows Phone 8.0 and older
• iPhone 3GS/iOS 6
• Nokia Symbian S60
• BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10
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