After December 31, these smartphones will not support WhatsApp

admin Published January 2, 2023

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According to The Independent, the instant messaging app WhatsApp is set to discontinue its messaging services for some smartphones, as it does every other year. This will leave many users without the app within a single day.

The messaging app owned by Meta continues to receive new updates; however, as of December 31, some smartphone users with older operating systems will become incompatible.

The following smartphones, which have out-of-date operating systems and will not be able to support the upgraded messaging app with subsequent updates, will no longer be eligible for the company’s services.

Before the app stops working on their phones, users will be notified.

A statement released by WhatsApp stated, “Devices and software change frequently, so we regularly review which operating systems we support and make updates.”

“These gadgets additionally probably won’t have the most recent security refreshes, or could come up short on usefulness expected to run WhatsApp. We look at which software and devices are the oldest and have the fewest people still using them every year, like other technology companies, to choose what to stop supporting.”

On an iPhone, select “software update” from the “general” settings menu if you want to update the operating system.

Here is a list of phones: