WhatsApp will drop to support old devices from January 2021
WhatsApp will end support for the old devices from January 2021. Even if mobile phone manufacturers provide longer-term system updates, WhatsApp will not continue to provide support.
Such as iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, Motorola Droid Razr, Samsung Galaxy S II, HTC Desire, etc., these devices will not be able to use WhatsApp from January next year.
In addition, due to the system version requirements of WhatsApp itself, other devices also need to be upgraded to iOS 9 or Android 4.0.3 or higher to continue using it. As for JioPhone and Nokia 8110 4G mobile phones equipped with KaiOS, the system version also needs to be updated to KaiOS 2.5.1 or higher.
WhatsApp says:
At WhatsApp, we follow the industry best practice and cease support, over time, for older phones, requiring users to upgrade to newer operating systems to continue using our service. However, before any such action, we provide adequate notice to our users who would be impacted so that they can learn more about continuing to use WhatsApp.In other words, no policy change at the moment. All the news reports that say WhatsApp will stop working on the old iPhones and Android devices that don’t run at least iOS 9 or something newer or Android 4.0.3 or something newer from January 1, 2021, aren’t saying anything new. These old phones are already not supported. They are just talking about the WhatsApp policy change that was announced in December 2019, and somehow connecting it to January 1, 2021.
Via: indiatoday
