Urgent: WhatsApp to Ditch Services to Old Phones – Is Yours Affected?

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There is a shocking news for WhatsApp users. Everyone’s favorite messaging app WhatsApp will no longer work on some older smartphones. This may cause millions of users to lose their important messages. WhatsApp always provides security and privacy updates to its app. As part of that, the company has now decided to discontinue the service on phones with some older operating systems. Due to this, WhatsApp will not work on phones with operating systems older than Android 4.0 and iPhone 11.

WhatsApp has not yet announced the official list of phones on which the service will be discontinued. But according to some leaked information, around 35 phones will have this service discontinued. It also has phones from major companies like Samsung, Apple, Motorola, Sony, LG and Huawei.

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List of phones affected by this decision

1 Samsung

• Galaxy Ace Plus

• Galaxy Core

• Galaxy Express 2

• Galaxy Grand

• Galaxy Note 3 N9005 LTE

• Galaxy Note 3 Neo LTE+

• Galaxy S II

• Galaxy S3 Mini VE

• Galaxy S4 Active

• Galaxy S4 mini I9190

• Galaxy S4 mini I9192 Duos

• Galaxy S4 mini I9195 LTE.

2 Apple

• iPhone 5

• iPhone 6

• iPhone 6S

• iPhone SE.

3 Lenovo

• A858T

• Lenovo P70

• S890

4 Motorola

• Moto G

• Moto X.

5 Huawei

• Ascend P6 S

• Ascend G525

• Huawei C199

• Huawei GX1s

• Huawei Y625

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6 Sony

• Xperia Z1

• Xperia E3

7 LG

• Optimus 4X HD P880

• Optimus G

• Optimus G Pro

• Optimus L7.

If your phone is on this list, you need to get a new phone soon. Also backup your important messages now. You can save your messages to Google Drive or iCloud using WhatsApp’s built-in backup feature.

Of course, this decision has upset users. But it cannot be denied that this decision is important from the perspective of security and privacy. Infact it’s a user friendly discussion.

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