The instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, which is considered the most famous in the world, with a number of users exceeding 2 billion users from various countries around the world, has confirmed that it will stop supporting some mobile phones in the coming days, and the platform has given the owners of these mobile phones a grace period until next October 24, after which it will graduate. These phones are from the list of phones supported by the application.
WhatsApp stops supporting millions of phones
The statements of the instant messaging platform WhatsApp came as a shock to millions of users of the application, especially owners of Android phones, as the WhatsApp application confirmed that it would stop supporting any Android phone running an operating system older than version 5.0, which bears the name Lollipop, and the application confirmed that it would continue to support phones running the operating system. Android 5.0 or later system.
The WhatsApp instant messaging platform indicated that the application will stop supporting a number of iPhone phones as well, for phones that operate with an operating system older than iOS 12, and according to the statements of the WhatsApp application, the application will stop supporting millions of Android and iPhone mobile phones during the next few days, and it is necessary The phone user must update his phone’s operating system or change it, if possible, and purchase a new phone running a more recent operating system, in order to benefit from the application support and the wonderful features that the WhatsApp platform offers from time to time.
WhatsApp stops supporting millions of phones
The WhatsApp platform added, “To choose what to stop supporting, every year we look at older devices and software that are still being used by fewer people,” and continued, “These devices may also not contain the latest security updates or may lack the functionality required to run WhatsApp.” “, explaining the reason behind the application stopping working on such a large number of phones in the coming days, and confirming that the user receives notifications from the application asking him to update the system.
