Older iPhones can’t use apps anymore WhatsApp and you are asked to back up your conversation history.
WhatsApp will only continue its service support on iPhone phones running iOS 10 or later.
That means the user iPhone 4S will no longer have security protections if they continue to use the service WhatsApp. iPhone 4S is a device with iOS 9 as the highest operating system and cannot be upgraded to iOS 10.
For information, iOS 9 itself was first released in 2015, along with the launch of the iPhone 6S.
As for iPhone 4S itself was first released in October 2011. Production iPhone 4S itself was discontinued one year before iOS 9 was launched, to be precise in 2014.
In fact iPhone 4S has stopped being sold in the market for about seven years. However, there may still be users who have not switched to a newer iPhone and are comfortable using iPhone 4S.
In mid-December 2020, service WhatsApp also discontinued support for iPhones running the iOS 8 operating system.
Apart from iOS 9, WhatsApp also discontinued support for the Android operating system below 4.0.3 and phones with KaiOS below 2.5.1.
User iPhone 4S need to know that with the end of support WhatsApp this, user iPhone 4S It is recommended to immediately back up your chat history via the Export Chat feature, as compiled by Phone Arena.
This feature can be accessed by visiting the menu “Settings”> “Chats”> “Chat history”> and “Export chat”. Then, the user can select the conversation from the contacts or group that they want to export.
Furthermore, users can back up conversation history only text (without media) or along with video / music / document files that have been received / sent (including media), if any.
In his official blog upload, WhatsApp revealed that it does not provide an option to transfer the chat history of users between platforms.
“However, we do provide an option to export your chat history as an e-mail attachment,” wrote WhatsApp.
Later, the conversation history will be summarized in a file with the extension “.txt” which is roughly named “WhatsApp Chat with …. “. The dots in the file name contain the name of the contact or group that was selected earlier.
It should be noted, this conversation history file will be in the form of attachments and cannot be used to restore conversations, be it in the application WhatsApp as well as other similar applications.
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