Effective November 1, 2021 This year, November 1, WhatsApp will officially end support for legacy smartphones. In Russia, this is about 10 thousand devices. Discuss
If earlier, according to the messages of the messenger itself, WhatsApp somehow transferred data and supported its application for users of such devices, now this is impossible due to technical reasons. Therefore, the messenger will refuse it officially.
Igor Bederov, an expert at the SafeNet engineering center of the National Technology Initiative (NTI), said that from November 1, 2021, WhatsApp will continue to work only on smartphones with operating systems not lower than Android 4.1, and on iPhone – starting from iOS 10.
According to the expert, the term of effective technical operation of devices that are older than these generations has long expired. “The battery has become unusable, the processor power and the amount of RAM are not enough to run most applications,” Bederov explained.
In Russia, there are about 10 thousand smartphones. For example, this is the 2011 iPhone 4 and other 10-year-old gadgets.
We are talking about very old smartphones, the characteristics of “hardware” which can no longer afford to update their operating system. For example, this is the 2011 iPhone 4 and other smartphones from about 10 years ago. The population of Russia has a small number of such gadgets on hand – up to about 10 thousand.
Igor Bederov Expert at SafeNet Engineering Center of the National Technology Initiative Source: RIA Novosti