WhatsApp: which phones will become incompatible from October 24, 2023?

WhatsApp is the most widely used instant messaging app today, far surpassing Telegram, Facebook Messenger, among others. So popular is this platform that thousands of users fear that their smartphones will be Android either iphone, they become incompatible. This is because, regularly, a list of cell phones appears on which the application will supposedly stop working.

“List of phones that will be without WhatsApp as of June 1”, “Cell phones that will no longer have WhatsApp starting tomorrow”, “The devices that became incompatible with WhatsApp from today”, these are some of the headlines that various media have published. Although some do it out of ignorance, others publish it deliberately, knowing that the information is completely false.

The “list of phones that will be left without WhatsApp” has been circulating for several years on social networks; however, every month it goes viral again as if it were new information. It is worth noting that the equipment that makes it up does exist, although they are models so old that a long time ago (and not now) they became incompatible with the messaging application that belongs to Meta.

Although said phone list is false, WhatsApp does have the habit of leaving out various teams; however, it does not do them by specific models or brands, but by its operating system. Usually, developers choose smartphones running extremely old software (which have few users) to stop supporting them, but they don’t do it every month.

Currently, the smartphones compatible with WhatsApp are those that work with Android 4.1 (or later versions) or iOS 12 (or a higher version). In addition to both operating systems, which have been around for several years now, the messaging app works on phones running KaiOS 2.5.0 and later, including JioPhone and JioPhone 2 devices.

WhatsApp will no longer work on various Android phones from October 24, 2023

In their official blog, which you can review at this link, the WhatsApp developers have informed that, as of October 24, 2023, their app will no longer work on phones that use Android 4.1 (launched in July 2012). From that date, only cell phones with Android 5.0 (and later versions) will be able to continue chatting through this messaging platform.

At the moment, WhatsApp has not reported whether it will stop supporting iPhones with iOS 12, an operating system that was released in 2018. However, this will most likely be announced in the coming months, since Apple will soon launch iOS 17. Currently, devices like the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus stayed on iOS 12 and couldn’t update to iOS 13. If you have any of them, it’s best to switch.

Source-larepublica.pe