Lakhs of users will not be able to use WhatsApp, support will be removed from these devices from today

WhatsApp will stop working on many Android smartphones and iPhone devices from today i.e. 1st February 2020. The company had announced a few days ago that on some devices working on older versions, WhatsApp accounts will stop working completely and all the chats included in the account will also be deleted. Let us tell you that from December 31, 2019, WhatsApp had stopped support for Windows Phones. Now from today millions of users running Android and iOS will also not be able to use this app.

of WhatsApp Announcement According to , support for smartphones running Android 2.3.7 and older as well as devices running iOS 8 and older will be discontinued from February 1. A few weeks ago, WhatsApp had restricted users running all these versions of devices from creating new accounts and re-verifying their accounts. But users could use the already existing account till today i.e. till 1 February 2020.

Let us tell you that at present there are millions of such devices, which are working on Android version 2.3.7 or older. Apart from this, the number of iPhone users with iOS 8 and older versions is also very high.

WhatsApp is still working on Jio Phone and Jio Phone 2 running on KaiOS 2.5.1+ version. For Android and iPhone users, WhatsApp works on Android OS 4.0.3 and above and iOS 9 and above.