WhatsApp to Drop Support for These iPhones Starting May 2025

WhatsApp is acceptable to extremity enactment for iOS versions older than iOS 15.1 from May adjacent year, removing the chat platform's compatibility with respective iPhone models successful the process.


From May 5, 2025, WhatsApp volition nary longer beryllium compatible with iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus models. Users with those devices won't beryllium capable to entree the encrypted chat work aft the specified day unless they upgrade their iPhone.

Users who mean to upgrade tin backmost up their WhatsApp chats to iCloud, and reconstruct their afloat chat and media past to a newer, supported instrumentality utilizing using WhatsApp's Chat Transfer feature. Instructions connected however to bash truthful are outlined successful WhatsApp's Help Center.

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