Some users will not be able to use WhatsApp from February 1, store chats like this

WhatsApp will stop working on many Android smartphones and iPhone devices from the 1st of next month i.e. 1st February 2020. WhatsApp accounts running on these mobile phones will stop working completely and all the chats included in the account will also be deleted. To avoid this, users will have to backup their chat history before the prescribed limit. Earlier, from December 31, WhatsApp had stopped support for Windows Phone. Now from February 1, WhatsApp support will also be stopped for some devices running Android and iOS.

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. Users running devices of all these versions have been restricted from creating new accounts and re-verifying their accounts from now on. However, users can use the already existing account till 1st February.

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. If all these users want to avoid losing their account’s chats, they will have to shift their accounts from the recommended version to a working device or save all their WhatsApp chats before February 1.

If you are also using WhatsApp on a device working on old Android or iOS version, then we would advise you to save WhatsApp chats before February 1. To save all chats, you have to go inside any chat of WhatsApp and click on the three dots given on the top left. Here you have to click on ‘More’ and click on ‘Export Chat’. Now two options will appear on your screen. Here, if you want to save the media files included in the chat, then you will have to click on ‘include media’ and if you want to save the chat without media files, then you will have to click on ‘Without Media’. Now you will see several options for sending the chat. Here you can select the email app and send the chat to the email account.

Let us tell you that 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.