The date to mark on your calendar to avoid being caught unprepared is Monday, July 1st: one of the most used messaging apps in the world that has been part of our daily lives for years now, Whatsapp, will no longer be available on some mobile phones. The “fault” very often lies with the people Updates frequent ones that gradually make smartphones purchased many years earlier increasingly obsolete, making it impossible to use some services.
The complete list
The models that will be most affected by this problem are:
- as for the iPhone the models affected will be the 5, 6, 6 Plus and SE;
- between Samsung the Galaxy S3 Mini, Galaxy X Cover 2 and Galaxy Trend Lite will no longer be able to access WhatsApp;
- the longer the list of devices Lg: L3 II Dual, Lg Optimus L5 Dual, Lg Optimus L7 Dual, Lg Optimus F3Q, Lg Optimus L2 II and Lg Optimus F6;
- Other device types that will no longer be able to use the messaging app include the Alcatel Go Flip 2, ZTE Grand S Flex, ZTE Grand Memo and Sony Xperia M;
- as regards the MotorolaWhatsApp will no longer be usable by Moto G, Moto X;
- on the Huawei it will no longer work between Ascend P6 S, Ascend G525, Huawei C199, Huawei GX1s, Huawei Y625;
- between Lenovo the list concerns Lenovo 46600, Lenovo A858T, Lenovo P70, Lenovo S890, Lenovo A820.
The main causes
As mentioned, the main reason lies in the updates which, occasionally but with a certain temporal frequency, affect all smartphone brands: the developers release them not only to correct bugs or system errors but also and above all for the most modern devices that every year they are placed on the market. It is therefore logical to expect that a device that is a few years old may not be 100% compatible with more modern ones that have different technology that cuts them off from some services, in this case WhatsApp. Not only that, but developers (it is the law of the market) have an interest in “protecting” and supporting the most modern mobile phones to the detriment of older ones which gradually become unusable over time.
Some users in possession of the smartphones listed above, in recent months, had been warned that from July 1st they would find themselves faced with this crossroads: either buy a more modern device or stop
to use WhatsApp. There is also a third solution: download the web version via any search engine (from Chrome to Firefox and many others) without the need to do any downloads or new installations.