WhatsApp will stop supporting the application on older gadgets – RBC

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American WhatsApp messenger will disable access to the application from its users millions of legacy devices. According to the Daily Expess, this can happen in the first week of January 2017

the Developers of WhatsApp messenger will stop supporting the application on the legacy mobile devices. Reported by the Daily Expess with reference to the American developer.

As specifies the edition, the program will not work on the iPhone 3GS, Windows Phone 7, smartphones on the Android operating system versions 2.1 and 2.2 and devices running iOS 6.

“These gadgets have become an important part of the story, but they are not able to support the features that will appear in our app in the future,” — said the publication of the company, noting that the decision on the termination of service was “difficult but correct because it gives people better ways to communicate with friends, family and loved ones.”

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the Developers also advised the owners of older gadgets to upgrade to the latest on Android Phone, iPhone, or Windows to continue using WhatsApp.

In this work the messenger on mobile devices, Blackberry OS, Blackberry 10, Nokia S40 and Nokia Symbian S60 will run until 30 June 2017. The timing of the input restrictions, the company said.

At the beginning of 2016, the founder of Facebook mark Zuckerberg announced that WhatsApp active audience exceeded 1 billion users. In April 2016, the creators of the messenger, the former employees of the Corporation Yahoo! Jan koum and Brian Acton, announced that WhatsApp goes to the “endpoint” encryption of all calls and correspondence users: now user data is not available for wiretapping and hacking by third parties, including WhatsApp.