The developers of the WhatsApp messenger announced that they will soon no longer support their application on
What is known
From January 1, 2020, the messenger will no longerwork on devices with Android Gingerbread. Users will continue to be able to open WhatsApp, but it will be impossible to create a new account or verify an existing one. Due to lack of support, some features will also stop working. By the way, according to the latest Android Distribution reports, the share of smartphones with Gingerbread on board is 0.3%. This is about 1.3 million devices.
The same situation applies to iPhone owners with iOS 8 on board. Starting next year, WhatsApp developers will also stop supporting the Apple application on this version of the OS.