From January, WhatsApp will no longer work on some smartphones. Is yours at risk too?

New Year New Life. Literally, even for ours smartphones. Because from January 1, 2023i.e. from Sunday, Whatsapp will stop working on 49 models several of cell phones. Most of the devices are Android based, but there are some iPhones on which it will no longer be possible to have the instant messaging service.

A comment on the news that Whatsapp will stop working on some mobiles is done during Vic and Marissathe program of Radio DEEJAY aired during the winter holidays every weekday morning from 10 to 12 hosted by Vic and Marisa Passera.

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Vic and Marisa: “You backup it in that place”

Why Whatsapp will stop working on 49 smartphone models

For the latter, also released a decade ago, Half – owner of Whatsapp – has decided not to invest further to adjust the application updates. Millions of people around the world, therefore, will remain offline starting January 1st. Buying a new smartphone remains the only solution to continue using Whatsapp.

Meta is not the only one: the applications will no longer be updated

To report the news and the complete list of devices on which the application with the green icon it won’t work anymore was the site GizChina.com who explained how the “fault” is not only of Half. In fact, there are several applications that over the years warn their users that one day it could stop working for the same reasons as now Whatsapp won’t work anymore.

The list of smartphones on which Whatsapp will no longer work

Right away the complete list of smartphones on which Whatsapp will stop working as of January 1, 2023.

iPhone 5
iPhone 5c
Archos 53 platinum
Big S Flex ZTE
Grand X Quad V987 ZTE
HTC Desire 500
Huawei Ascend D
Huawei Ascend D1
Huawei Ascend D2
Huawei Ascend G740
Huawei Ascend Mate
Huawei Ascend P1
XL square
Lenovo A820
LG issue
LG Glossy 2
LG Optimus 4XHD
LG Optimus F3
LG Optimus F3Q
LG Optimus F5
LG Optimus F6
LG Optimus F7
LG Optimus L2 II
LG Optimus L3 II
LG Optimus L3 II double
LG Optimus L4 II
LG Optimus L4 II double
LG Optimus L5
LG Optimus L5 double
LG Optimus L5 II
LG Optimus L7
LG Optimus L7 II
LG Optimus L7 II double
LG Optimus NitroHD
Note ZTE V956
Samsung Galaxy Ace 2
Samsung Galaxy Core
Samsung Galaxy s2
Samsung Galaxy S3 mini
Samsung Galaxy Trend II
Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite
Samsung Galaxy XCover 2
Sony Xperia Arco S
Sony Xperia aimed
Sony Xperia Neo L
Wiko Cink Five
Wiko Dark Night ZT

Have you identified, among others, your smartphone? Should it be so, you must hurry to fix itperhaps by seizing some market opportunities or various post-Christmas discounts.

Vic and Marisa’s comment: “Those cell phones will go to the elderly and children”

During the episode of Vic and Marissathe two deejays comment on the story, reminding listeners that they may have to change their mobile phones:

Whatsapp decides every year to close its service for some smartphones. In the list of mobile phones there are big names, such as the Samsung Galaxy S3″.

Marisaat which point, he added a personal comment:

I have it as a backup phone, now you backup it in that place. Usually they are refurbished phones and resold to the elderly and children. The former are satisfied, then maybe the phone doesn’t work and they are blamed. The latter instead use it to play. So now we are all there to check which mobile will no longer fit.