WhatsApp won’t work on iOS 7 after February 1, 2020

WhatsApp, the world’s around pop messaging service, volition survive ending back upwards for older platforms similar iOS seven which lack modern capabilities needed for its upcoming features.



You won’t survive able to occupation WhatsApp on the next devices:

• iPhone iOS seven together with older, later Feb 1, 2020


• Nokia Symbian S60, later June 30, 2017


• BlackBerry OS together with BlackBerry 10, later Dec 31, 2017


• Nokia S40, later Dec 31, 2018


• All Windows Phone versions, later Dec 31, 2019


• Android versions 2.3.7 together with older, later Feb 1, 2020

Folks amongst older iPhones may survive able to drib dead on using the app later the cut-off date, only “some features may halt performance at whatsoever time,” according to the updated back upwards document. As a thing of fact, y'all tin no longer exercise novel accounts nor tin y'all reverify existing accounts on iOS seven together with older together with Android 2.37 together with older. Furthermore, WhatsApp for all Windows Phone versions volition halt working later Dec 31, 2019.

The society recommends using these devices:

• iPhone running iOS 8+


• Android running OS 4.0.3+


• Windows Phone 8.1+


• Select phones running KaiOS 2.5.1+, including JioPhone together with JioPhone 2

In 2016, WhatsApp killed back upwards for iPhone 3GS amongst iOS 6, BlackBerry OS together with BlackBerry 10, Nokia S40, Nokia Symbian S60, Android 2.1-2.2 together with Windows Phone 7.

Ever since it was acquired yesteryear Facebook inward 2017 for $19 billion, a staggering sum for a messaging service that had 450 1 yard m monthly active users together with 315 1 yard m daily active users at the time, WhatsApp has been picking upwards lots of novel features.

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One of the recent updates to the app has brought the might to protect your WhatsApp chats amongst Face ID or Touch ID. In addition, the messaging platform may survive getting its ain iPad app soon. Also inward the news, Mark Zuckerberg latterly announced a pin to privacy that volition run into the society merge WhatsApp, Instagram together with Messenger into a unified messaging platform amongst end-to-end encryption, an iMessage-like layer for SMS together with other perks.

Are y'all yet carrying an older iPhone?

If so, y'all won’t survive able to accept payoff of the upcoming novel features inward WhatsApp although y'all volition survive able to install the most-recent supported version of the app for your version of iOS.

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