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WhatsApp might stop working on your phone soon. Here’s why.

With 1.5 billion global users—and a million new accounts being opened daily—WhatsApp has become the world’s go-to instant messaging app. From intimate, personal interactions to large-scale business promotion, the green-and-white messenger connects you with the rest of the world with relative ease, and at minimal costs. But, sadly, all of that could end soon.

Starting from February 1, 2020, some WhatsApp users will no longer be able to create new accounts or update their existing ones. In a post on its FAQ page, WhatsApp announced that it will no longer support certain operating systems.

According to the site, Android OS 2.3.7, iOS 8 and older versions will not be able to feature the application come February. Additionally, WhatsApp is expected to stop working on all Microsoft Windows phones after December 31, 2019.

If your phone uses any of these outmoded versions, you do really have cause for worry. Apple devices such as the iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and other fourth-generation iPads will be impacted. Android phones like Sony Xperia Advance, Lenovo K800, Samsung S Lightray 4G SCH-R940, Motorola Defy Pro XT 560, Samsung S2 LTE GT-i9210T, LG Optimus 3D Max P720, HTC Velocity 4G are at risk too.

With WhatsApp regularly creating new features and updating old ones, these outdated operating systems just cannot keep up with the new changes. Features like picture-in-picture video chats—which allows you to watch video content from third-party sources on the app—and fingerprint authentication require phones with powerful RAM (the working memory that determines performance speed) and newer operating systems to function properly. Such functionality, alongside other new features that will be revealed in the future, cannot be handled by the older phones.

For those using any of these phones, you can avoid being shut out by updating your phone’s operating system to keep up with the modern demands of the software market.

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