WhatsApp to stop working from the year 2021
Lahore, 31st December: WhatsApp, the famous mobile application will stop working on mobile phones from 1st of January 2021.
According to reports, WhatsApp may stop working on mobile phones from January 1 onwards as the messaging platform won’t remain compatible on several devices.
WhatsApp will withdraw its support for some old devices which are currently compatible with the application. While some users with old devices will be able to use WhatsApp by updating their software, others won’t be so lucky.
As per reports, the messaging platform is dropping support for any iPhone running on software older than iOS9.
This means that the iPhone 4 and other models won’t be able to access WhatsApp from January 1, 2021. iPhone 4S, 5, 5S, 5C, 6 and 6S can all be updated to iOS9, hence, once updated they will be able to support WhatsApp.
Similarly, WhatsApp will no longer work on Android devices with 4.0.3 or older versions of the operating system.
Here’s what you can do
First of all, you should find out which operating system your phone is using.
A report from Geo News tells us that in order to find out what operating system your phone is running on, iPhone users can go to Settings > General > Information, where you will find information about the software version on your iPhone.
On the other hand, Android users can go to Settings > About Phone to see which Android version their smartphone is running on.
One of the main problems that users will face when their WhatsApp no longer remains accessible is no access to their chats. Hence, it is important for people with any such phones mentioned above to back up their chats before January 1, 2021, if they want to retain them.
This can be done by going to ‘Chat backup’ option under Chats section in Settings. Aside from backing up their chats, if the users want to use the messaging app in the future, they should also start looking for smartphones that are compatible with WhatsApp.
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