WhatsApp will no longer be compatible with iOS 10 and iOS 11 on October 24th. iPhone 5 and 5S owners will have to change devices.
It has become commonplace, our favorite applications and web services live and die. Sometimes very fast, sometimes much slower. Anyway, we are used to these cycles. Including have to say goodbye to this or that application on outdated platforms. Today WhatsApp is going to say goodbye to one platform, or rather two, iOS 10 and iOS 11.
WhatsApp will no longer be compatible with iOS 10 and iOS 11 on October 24th.
Therefore, WhatsApp plans to end support for iOS 10 and 11. A new notice discovered by WABetaInfo urges affected iPhone users to install the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system supported by their device in order to continue using the app after October 24th. WhatsApp’s help article states that the company now recommends a minimum of iOS 12 for iPhone owners. If you still have an iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, or iPhone 6s, you can continue to use WhatsApp on your device, but iPhone 5 and 5S owners will need to switch smartphones.
iPhone 5 and 5S owners will have to change devices
Since the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S are nearly ten years old today, chances are few people will be affected by this decision. If we see the iPhone 5 in the wild, then most often in the back of a drawer or at some flea market. In any case, millions of people around the world depend on WhatsApp to communicate with family and friends, and it’s safe to say that there are still a few iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S owners out there.
In any case, this is a logical evolution, and also a necessary one, since after a certain time it becomes very difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to maintain versions for such old devices.