New Delhi: Most people use the popular messaging app WhatsApp. In such a situation, it is important for the WhatsApp user to do some important work before December 31. If not, WhatsApp can stop working on your mobile in the new year i.e. 2021. Simply put, after December 31, smartphones with older operating systems will stop receiving WhatsApp support. For your information, let us know that Google’s Android operating system is quite popular in the mobile world. Similarly, the Apple iPhone has its own operating system, which comes with new versions from time to time. This new version is already very secure and user friendly. Due to this, WhatsApp has decided to stop supporting smartphones with older version operating systems. With this, WhatsApp can stop working in your old phone from the new year.
What to do
If you want to run WhatsApp, then you have to update your mobile operating system before December 31. At the same time, the users who will not get the latest operating update, those users will have to change the phone, otherwise, WhatsApp will not be able to run on smartphones with operating systems older than 1 January 2021. Explain that the support of the popular instant messaging app WhatsApp will be discontinued from the beginning of next year i.e. January 1, 2021 for some smartphones.
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These smartphones will stop WhatsApp
WhatsApp is removing support for older versions of Android and iPhone. In such a situation, WhatsApp will not work on smartphones running on iOS 9 and Android 4.0.3 operating systems and older versions. Support of WhatsApp can also be removed from iPhone 4 or older iPhone. But with this, if the version of the iPhone ie iPhone 4s, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 6, iPhone 6s has outdated software, then it can be updated. After updating in this way, WhatsApp can be run in these iPhone models. Talking about Android smartphones, WhatsApp will not be supported on smartphones running on Android 4.0.3. Smartphones in which WhatsApp will not work include HTC Desire, LG Optimus Black, Motorola Droid Razr, Samsung Galaxy S2. iQOO 7’s BMW Edition will be launched on January 11, will get Snapdragon 888 processor
This is how to identify the operating system of the phone
- If you do not know which operating system your smartphone is working on, then it can be detected by going through the settings of the phone.
- If you are an iphone user, first you have to go to the settings of the phone.
- After this, tap on General and then Information option.
- After this you can find the software of iphone.
- Android users will also have to go to the settings of the phone, where the About Phone option will be seen, which will have to be clicked on.
- In this way, users will be able to detect the software of the phone.