WhatsApp will stop working from Sunday on some older smartphone models
From January 1st, messaging will no longer be compatible with phones using older versions of Android and iOS.
The WhatsApp It will no longer be compatible with 49 phone models from 1Verse January. Messaging will stop working on devices running a version earlier than Android 4.1, also known as Jelly Bean (2012) and iOS 12.1 (2018). iPhone 5 and 5S, Samsung Galaxy S2 and S3 mini or HTC Desire 500 are among the most popular models in question.
To keep up with the latest technological developments, we regularly stop supporting older operating systems and dedicate our resources to supporting the newer ones.specifies WhatsApp in a file Help page.
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Concerned users have already been alerted. If we stop supporting your operating system, you will be notified and reminded frequently to upgrade your device to continue using WhatsApp.sets the correspondence on its website. According to Android statistic from February 2021, only 0.2% of users are using pre-2012 version, more than 400 thousand Internet users.
Upgradable
On some devices, the smartphone operating system can be updated to a newer version. But some phones marketed before 2012 for Android and before September 2018 for iOS do not have this possibility. There is only one possibility to continue using Messaging: buying a new device.
The latest WhatsApp OS update was on October 24, 2022, with iOS 10 and 11 discontinued.
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