WhatsApp will stop working on these smartphones after December 31

WhatsApp today has become not only the world's largest instant messaging service but an essential part of most of our daily lives. From entry-level devices to premium flagships, WhatsApp today finds a place on almost all smartphones and its reach is far beyond the reach of the planet.

But starting next year, many smartphones will lose support for popular messaging applications because its developers will be pulling support for some operating systems that consider them outdated.

While not ideal, support for these OS'is is being dropped to ensure that WhatsApp can provide a streamlined experience across all devices that have been installed and bring new features including Many users may not be able to extend their phone to hand.

WhatsApp usually performs practices where it adds and removes support for smartphones and operating systems, however, what will be done later this year will include company drop support for thousands of smartphones that have some of Android's older Run versions. , IOS and Windows Phone OS.

The application will drop support for Windows Phone on December 31 and stop developing for the operating system. Thus the shutdown will affect Nokia Lumia devices, the last to use the Microsoft-made Windows operating system.

However, the messaging service owned by Facebook has not stopped there yet. After ending support for Windows Phone OS, WhatsApp has announced that it will also pull support for Android phones running on Android 2.3.7, no longer able to run applications starting in February 2020. This means sending and receiving no more updates and messages via the application.

Additionally, iPhones running on iOS 8 and earlier versions will stop supporting in February. Users of these iPhone models have already lost the ability to create new accounts on these devices and now, they will not be able to use the app.

However, this is not the first time that WhatsApp is withdrawing support for devices. Earlier, support for running older operating systems such as Nokia Symbian S60, Nokia Series 40 operating system, BlackBerry OS and devices such as BlackBerry 10, Android 2.1 and 2.2, Windows Phone 7, and iPhone 3GS and iOS 6 was withdrawn.

Regarding these changes, WhatsApp said: It was a difficult decision for us, but to give people better ways to use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends, family and loved ones.