ISLAMABAD – Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp will no longer work onmillions of smartphones from 1 February.
Whatsapp said it is necessary to block people who are running olderversions of the Android or iOS operating systems in order to protect thesecurity of its users.
‘Because we no longer actively develop for these operating systems, somefeatures might stop functioning at any time,’ said WhatsApp in a blog post.
Smartphones using Android 2.3.7 and older, and iPhone iOS 8 or older, arethose affected by the update.
The latest update will mean users on unsupported devices will no longer beable to create new accounts or reverify existing accounts.
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Every year the messaging app, which launched in 2009, removes support fordevices that ‘don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand ourapp’s features in the future’.
WhatsApp on Tuesday said that it will launch dark mode feature for itsiPhone users with the launch of an update for the beta version on Googleplay platform.
