Meta has determined to finish help for WhatsApp on previous Android telephones. Extra particularly, greater than 10-year-old units are nonetheless operating on Android KitKat. Handsets nonetheless operating on that model of the OS or older will now not have entry to WhatsApp beginning January 1, 2025.
The rationale for the discontinued help is WhatsApp’s evolving options and functionalities. Meta is trying to implement extra demanding options, AI functionalities, and so on., requiring extra fashionable {hardware}. Listed here are a lot of the telephones which are getting axed:
- Samsung: Galaxy S3, Galaxy Observe 2, Galaxy Ace 3, Galaxy S4 Mini
- Motorola: Moto G (1st Gen), Razr HD, Moto E 2014
- HTC: One X, One X+, Need 500, Need 601
- LG: Optimus G, Nexus 4, G2 Mini, L90
- Sony: Xperia Z, Xperia SP, Xperia T, Xperia V
Maybe a few of you’re nonetheless utilizing these units as burner telephones, however in case you’re nonetheless rocking both of them as a day by day driver, it’s best to discover a method to backup all of your WhatsApp knowledge on a more recent system. In any other case, all of your media and chat historical past from WhatsApp might be gone after January 1, 2025.
Meta introduced one thing related for iPhones a number of months again, ending help for iPhones operating on iOS older than model 15.1. Nevertheless, the corporate will retain help for these handsets till Could 2025.
