WhatsApp to Stop Working on These Phones from December 31: Report

Meta-owned WhatsApp will reportedly cease engaged on older iPhone fashions in addition to Android telephones. The adjustments shall be relevant to as many as 49 smartphones ranging from December 31, as per the report. Customers with older iPhone fashions should improve their handsets to iOS 12 or newer whereas Android customers shall be required to Android OS 4.1 or later to proceed utilizing WhatsApp. This implies iPhone 5 and iPhone 5c customers will not have the ability to use WhatsApp on their telephones.

In response to a report from GizChina, WhatsApp could discontinue help for iOS 11, Android OS 4 and older from December 31. The checklist of outdated handsets consists of 49 smartphones from Apple, Samsung, LG, Huawei, and others. iPhone 5 and iPhone 5c customers might need to improve to newer iPhones whereas iPhone 5s or later fashions will be up to date to iOS 12 and therefore will proceed to help WhatsApp.

With the intention to preserve utilizing WhatsApp on their handsets, customers should get an iOS 12 and Android 4.1 or newer updates. These telephones are fairly previous and most of them usually are not appropriate with new working techniques. As soon as WhatsApp ends help for these gadgets, the messaging service will cease engaged on them. Here is the checklist of telephones that may reportedly cease supporting WhatsApp from December 31.

WhatsApp will cease engaged on these telephones:

iPhone 5

iphone 5c

Archos 53 Platinum

Grand S Flex ZTE

Grand X Quad V987 ZTE

HTC Need 500

Huawei Ascend D

Huawei Ascend D1

Huawei Ascend D2

Huawei Ascend G740

Huawei Ascend Mate

Huawei Ascend P1

quad xl

Lenovo A820

LG Enact

LG Lucid 2

LG Optimus 4X HD

LG Optimus F3

LG Optimus F3Q

LG Optimus F5

LG Optimus F6

LG Optimus F7

LG Optimus L2 II

LG Optimus L3 II

LG Optimus L3 Twin

LG Optimus L4 II

LG Optimus L4 Twin

LG Optimus L5

LG Optimus L5 Twin

LG Optimus L5 II

LG Optimus L7

LG Optimus L7 II

LG Optimus L7 Twin

LG Optimus Nitro HD

Memo ZTE V956

Samsung Galaxy Ace 2

samsung galaxy core

Samsung Galaxy S2

samsung galaxy s3 mini

Samsung Galaxy Development II

Samsung Galaxy Development Lite

Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2

Sony Xperia Arc S

sony xperia miro

Sony Xperia Neo L

Wiko Cink 5

Wiko Darknight ZT

Earlier, as per a report, WhatsApp was purported to discontinue help for iOS 10 and iOS 11 by October 24. The report instructed that this step may drive iPhone 5 and iPhone 5c customers to improve to a more recent iPhone mannequin as it is not sensible to put in an iOS replace that may help WhatsApp. Nonetheless, the report instructed that 89 p.c of iPhone customers have moved to iOS 15, whereas 4 p.c of customers have iOS 13 or earlier variations put in.