This was a tough decision for us to make, but the right one in order to give people better ways to keep in touch with friends, family, and loved ones using WhatsApp. While these mobile devices have been an important part of our story, they don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app’s features in the future. So, by the end of 2016, we will be ending support for WhatsApp Messenger on the following mobile platforms: Mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple and Microsoft – which account for 99.5 percent of sales today – were on less than 25 percent of mobile devices sold at the time.Īs we look ahead to our next seven years, we want to focus our efforts on the mobile platforms the vast majority of people use. About 70 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia. The Apple App Store was only a few months old. When we started WhatsApp in 2009, people’s use of mobile devices looked very different from today. It has been an amazing journey and in the coming months we’re putting an even greater emphasis on security features and more ways to stay in touch with the people that you care about.īut anniversary dates are also an opportunity to look back.

So this announcement will affect following phones :Īll BlackBerry smartphones and all Windows 7.1 smartphonesĮarlier this week WhatsApp turned seven years old.

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