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Is your smartphone safe? WhatsApp will stop working on these phones from December 31, 2022.

founder of Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp, Neeraj Arora, has announced that their app would end support for some selected smartphones across brands, including Apple and Samsung, starting December 31.

This is not the first time the company is doing this, year in year out smartphones get outmoded and can’t support certain application software, this is why.
At the moment, WhatsApp supports Android version 4.1 and above, iOS 12 and above, and KaiOS 2.5.0 and above.

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From December 31, WhatsApp would stop working on Android phones that are running on versions released before Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Likewise, the support would end for iPhones running iOS 10 and 11.

From news reports, the following smartphones would not receive any updates, including new features and security patches, from next year. Eventually, the platform will stop working on these smartphones. That said, most of the smartphones mentioned in the list are either those in the end of their life cycle or running outdated operating systems. Below is the list of smartphones that would not get support from WhatsApp after December 31:

1.Apple iPhone 5

2.Apple iPhone 5c

3.Archos 53 Platinum

4.Grand S Flex ZTE

5.Grand X Quad V987 ZTE

6.HTC Desire 500

7.Huawei Ascend D

8.Huawei Ascend D1

9.Huawei Ascend D2

10.Huawei Ascend G740

11.Huawei Ascend Mate

12.Huawei Ascend P1

13.Quad XL

14.Lenovo A820

15.LG Enact

16.LG Lucid 2

17.LG Optimus 4X HD

18.LG Optimus F3

19.LG Optimus F3Q

20.LG Optimus F5

21.LG Optimus F6

22.LG Optimus F7

23.LG Optimus L2 II

24.LG Optimus L3 II

25.LG Optimus L3 II Dual

26.LG Optimus L4 II

27.LG Optimus L4 II Dual

28.LG Optimus L5

29.LG Optimus L5 Dual

30.LG Optimus L5 II

31.LG Optimus L7

32.LG Optimus L7 II

33.LG Optimus L7 II Dual

34.LG Optimus Nitro HD

35.Memo ZTE V956

36.Samsung Galaxy Ace 2

37.Samsung Galaxy Core

38.Samsung Galaxy S2

39.Samsung Galaxy S3 mini

40.Samsung Galaxy Trend II

41.Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite

42.Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2

43.Sony Xperia Arc S

44.Sony Xperia miro

45.Sony Xperia Neo L

46.Wiko Cink Five

47.Wiko Darknight ZT

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