WhatsApp Messenger will be ending support on some more
mobile platforms to focus efforts on mobile platforms the vast majority of
people use.
WhatsApp announced the end of support for a slew of mobile
devices a few years ago and ended support for devices that run on Nokia S40 in
December 2018.
WhatsApp uses your phone’s Internet connection –
4G/3G/2G/EDGE or Wi-Fi, as available – to let you message and call friends and
family.
When the messenger app started in 2009, people’s use of
mobile devices looked very different from today.
The Apple App Store was only a few months old then, and
about 70 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered
by BlackBerry and Nokia.
Mobile operating systems offered by Google and Apple – which
account for over 90 percent of sales today – were on less than 25 percent of mobile
devices sold at the time.
By the end of 2018, WhatsApp had already ended support for
BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Android 2.1,
Android 2.2, Windows Phone 7 and iPhone 3GS/iOS 6.
After December 31, 2019, the Facebook-owned messaging app
will stop working on all phones running any version of Microsoft Windows
operating system.
The Windows Phone operating system was launched in October
2010, but in January 2019 Microsoft announced it would no longer support the
software from December.
Also, WhatsApp will stop working on phones running Android
versions 2.3.7 and older after an iPhone iOS 7 and older after February 1,
2020.
“While these mobile devices have been an important part of
our story, they don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our
app’s features in the future.
“This was a tough decision for us to make, but the right one
in order to give people better ways to keep in touch with friends, family, and
loved ones using WhatsApp,” WhatsApp said in a blog post.
Because WhatsApp will no longer actively develop for these
platforms, some features may stop functioning at any time.
Thousands or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people
would be affected.
If you use one of these affected mobile devices, we recommend
upgrading to a newer Android phone or a newer iPhone to continue using
WhatsApp.
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