{"id":445520,"date":"2022-05-23T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T07:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=445520"},"modified":"2022-05-23T09:13:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T07:13:50","slug":"whatsapp-dropping-support-for-older-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/445520-whatsapp-dropping-support-for-older-phones.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp dropping support for older phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has started notifying users on older iPhones that it would no longer support their devices from 24 October 2022, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-will-drop-the-support-for-ios-10-and-ios-11\/\">WABetaInfo reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp\u2019s Help Center <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/faq.whatsapp.com\/general\/download-and-installation\/about-supported-operating-systems\">confirms<\/a> <\/strong>that the Facebook-owned messaging application will no longer support iPhones running iOS 10 or iOS 11.<\/p>\n<p>Any device currently running iOS 11 can be updated to iOS 12, after which it will have no problem running WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>However, since the iPhone 5 and 5C do not support iOS 12, these smartphones won\u2019t be able to run WhatsApp after the cut-off date.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, WhatsApp is ending support for the older operating systems to let Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) introduce features that might not work on the old software.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that the iPhone 5 and 5C are nearing a decade since their release, it is not surprising that WhatsApp will be ending support for them.<\/p>\n<p>Any devices losing WhatsApp support will receive notifications reminding users to update to the latest iOS version to continue using the messaging service.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhones that can be upgraded to iOS 12 are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>iPhone 5S<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 6<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 6 Plus<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 6S<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 6S Plus<\/li>\n<li>iPhone SE (1st generation)<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 7<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 7 Plus<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 8<\/li>\n<li>iPhone 8 Plus<\/li>\n<li>iPhone X<\/li>\n<li>iPhone XS<\/li>\n<li>iPhone XS Max<\/li>\n<li>iPhone XR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for Android devices, WhatsApp remains supported on devices with version 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and higher.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/445174-mtn-hits-contract-customers-with-very-high-increases.html\">MTN hits contract customers with very high increases<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is ending support for older iOS operating system versions and iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341094,"featured_media":445522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[397,35,691,1125,73842,2594],"class_list":["post-445520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-android","tag-headline","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-meta-platforms","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445526,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445520\/revisions\/445526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}