Whatsapp made an announcement and it's a bad news for people using some old phones.

They announced that they will no longer support old phones which means you may have to upgrade your phone if you are using one if the phones they specified.

99guides gathered that the popular messaging app which is used by over 1billion people will stop working on certain mobiles phones due to changes in technology.

The company said in a blog post: “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 per cent of sales today – were on less than 25 per cent of mobile devices sold at the time.”

By January 1, the application will stop working on BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone 8.0 and older.

Support for the Nokia S40 will also stop after December 31 next year, while Android versions 2.3.7 and older will cease to function from February 1, 2020.

The company said: “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.

“If you use one of these affected mobile devices, we recommend upgrading to a newer Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone.”


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