At this point the world has established that Whatsapp is absolutely fundamental to communication and was grateful when it was up and running again following a momentary shutdown. Unfortunately for some users, they will be saying goodbye to Whatsapp again forever.
On October 4 2021, Facebook, which is the holding company of Whatsapp and Instagram shutdown these applications. Although they did not comment on the reasons for the shutdown, it suspiciously took place when the whistle-blower was interviewed.
One thing became clearer to Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerburg and his team, the world is very depended on their communications. According to a social media post by Zuckerburg, they were very humbled and appreciative of all their users. However, they have revealed the other beloved users that will be shut out of the app.
Whatsapp Will Not Be Working On The Following Phones
Starting from the 1st of November 2021, Whatsapp will not work or be downloadable on these phones;
1. Galaxy Trend Lite
2. Galaxy Trend II
3. Galaxy SII
4. Galaxy S3 mini
5. Galaxy Xcover 2
6. Galaxy Core
7. Galaxy Ace 2
8. Lucid 2
9. Optimus F7
10. Optimus F5
11. Optimus L3 II Dual
12. Optimus F5
13. Optimus L5
14. Best L5 II
15. Optimus L5 Dual
16. Best L3 II
17. Optimus L7
18. Optimus L7 II Dual
19. Best L7 II
20. Optimus F6, Enact
21. Optimus L4 II Dual
22. Optimus F3
23. Best L4 II
24. Best L2 II
25. Optimus Nitro HD
26. Optimus 4X HD
27. Optimus F3Q
at28. ZTE V956
29. Grand X Quad V987
30. Grand Memo
31. Xperia Miro
32. Xperia Neo L
33. Xperia Arc S
34. Alcatel
35. Ascend G740
36. Ascend Mate
37. Ascend D Quad XL
38. Ascend D1 Quad XL
39. Ascend P1 S
40. Ascend D2
41. Archos 53 Platinum
42. HTC Desire 500
43. Caterpillar Cat B15
44. Wiko Cink Five
45. Wiko Darknight
46. Lenovo A820
47. UMi X2
48. Run F1
49. THL W8
50. iPhone SE
51. iPhone 6S
52. iPhone 6S Plus.
Reason For This Change
The application will reportedly not be accommodating users with dated phones in a bid to keep the app secure. Should these users want to continue enjoying using Whatsapp they will now have to update their Android or iOS versions to at least 4.1 .
Older iOS or Android versions are often riddled with holes in their security. The purpose of an update is to present a version that has fixed any security issues present in the older versions. Therefore, the use of an older version proves to be a security risk, no wonder why Whatsapp is phasing out their support for these risk threats.
In short, time to finally update that phone.