WhatsApp permanently stops working on these phones

WhatsApp wants to conclude this exceptional year 2020 with a new decision, as the management of the Facebook company, which owns the famous WhatsApp application, is preparing a surprise that is bad and unpleasant at the end of the year, as the application is expected to stop on a large number of smart phone devices on New Year’s Eve, as a result of WhatsApp giving up support Old smart phone operating systems, whether Android phones or Apple phones, and this number reaches millions of devices that are no longer valid to support updates and new features in the application.

WhatsApp has stopped working on old phones

The big updates that the WhatsApp administration makes on the application every period of time either to solve a problem or loophole or add a new feature to WhatsApp, and all this in order to maintain the large segment of active users of the application around the world, as WhatsApp is now the most popular instant messaging application on various operating systems For phones and computers.

But those issued updates do not work normally on old phones issued several years ago, during that period of time many improvements and updates were issued for phones at the level of programs and operating systems and the level of material capabilities, so the WhatsApp administration explicitly announces its final abandonment of support for these smartphones. .

Phones WhatsApp won’t work on in 2021

The IOS system by Apple of America and the Android system of Alphabet are the two dominant systems in the category of smartphones globally, and they are waiting for a third competitor, the Harmony System of the Chinese company Huawei, but the system has not been officially released yet.

Iphone that WhatsApp depends on

The WhatsApp administration announced that it has abandoned all old iPhones that work through the operating system IOS 9, a system that was released during 2015, as well as versions of iPhones that work with a version less than IOS 9 and the list of phones included:

• iPhone 4S
• iPhone 5
• iPhone 5S
• iPhone 6
• iPhone 6S

Android phones WhatsApp depends on

The other system is the Android system, as the WhatsApp administration abandoned all phones running the Android 4.0.3 operating system or less, as this version of the system was released during 2011, and includes the following smartphones list:

• Samsung Galaxy S3 and newer
• Samsung Galaxy Note
• HTC Sensation
• HTC Thunderbolt
• Lg lucid
• Motorola Droid 4
• Sony Xperia Pro and newer

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