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WhatsApp won't work on these smartphones after December 31

The Facebook-owned instant messaging company has announced that WhatsApp support would end for certain mobile operating system post-December 31

WhatsApp has decided to end support for certain smartphones after December 31, 2018. The news comes as a shock to many in India who are still using older smartphones. WhatsApp has said that it will no longer invest in developing its services for smartphones that run older Android versions.

Facebook owned WhatsApp is a popular messaging platform that has over a billion active users. The platform is especially popular in India and gets a lot of traffic during big events and festivals. The news that it won't work will surprise many at a time when people will be looking to send New Year wishes to their near and dear ones.

WhatsApp has been adding new features regularly and some of these features require powerful phones and new Android versions to function properly. Features like playing videos directly inside the chat window are resource heavy and require phones with enough RAM and newer OS to run. WhatsApp says that some of the phones won't be able to support the feature that it plans to bring in future and that is why it is ending the support for them.

"We'll no longer actively develop for these operating systems; some features might stop functioning at any time. If you currently use an older operating system, we recommend upgrading to a newer version...," WhatsApp said on its support page.

WhatsApp has listed the devices that will be affected by the company's move to end its support. Many of the phones listed have already stopped supporting the app. Few others will lose the support post 31st December.

The operating system that will lose the support after December 31, 2018:

Nokia S40. S40 was last used in Nokia 515 in 2013.

WhatsApp will also stop working on the following phones from February 1, 2020.

Phones running Android 2.3.7 and older

iPhones running iOS 6 (iPhone 3GS/)

WhatsApp has already stopped supporting Android versions older than 2.3.3 and all the devices that run on it. Windows Phone 8, iPhone 3GS/iOS 6 and BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10 are already not supported.

WhatsApp won’t work on these phones in 2019

Still using WhatsApp on old Nokia phone? It’s time to upgrade

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been dropping support for dated devices and operating systems (OS) from time to time and now it is ending support for iOS 7 and older versions, Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread and Nokia Series 40 (S40).

What this means is that users of Nokia Series 40 device will no longer be able to create new WhatsApp accounts and some features of the app could stop functioning on the device at any time.

Earlier, WhatsApp had outlined devices and OS that would be cut off from its support room and affixed dates to them accordingly. Nokia S40 would be supported until December 31, 2018, Android versions 2.3.7 and older until February 1, 2020 and iOS 7 and older until February 1, 2020.

The Nokia S40 OS was seen in the company’s mid-tier devices like Nokia Asha 201, Nokia Asha 205, Nokia Asha 210, Nokia Asha 230, Nokia Asha 500, Nokia Asha 501, Nokia Asha 502, Nokia Asha 503, Nokia 206, Nokia 208, Nokia 301, Nokia 515.

“When we started WhatsApp in 2009, people’s use of mobile devices looked very different from today. The Apple App Store was only a few months old. About 70 per cent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia.

Mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft -- which account for 99.5%?of sales today -- were on less than 25% of mobile devices sold at the time,” it said in a blog post.

You will, however, still be able to use WhatsApp on the device though, according to the Dignited.

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