{"id":1006025,"date":"2026-04-30T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006025"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:08:07","slug":"whatsapp-to-stop-working-on-these-android-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/whatsapp-to-stop-working-on-these-android-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp to stop working on these Android smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp will no longer support Android devices running on older Android versions. According to a report by WABetaInfo, starting September 8, 2026, WhatsApp will stop working on smartphones running versions running older Android 6. Users will not be able to access WhatsApp on smartphones running Android version older to Android 6. This decision is part of Meta\u2019s efforts to maintain compatibility with newer technologies and also make sure app\u2019s security and functionality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatsApp is notifying affected users by displaying an alert as soon as they open the app. The message notes that starting on September 8, 2026, WhatsApp will no longer be available on specific versions of Android. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp will no longer support Android devices running on older Android versions. According to a report by WABetaInfo, starting September 8, 2026, WhatsApp will stop working on smartphones running versions running older Android 6. Users will not be able to access WhatsApp on smartphones running Android version older to Android 6. This decision is part of Meta\u2019s efforts to maintain compatibility with newer technologies and also make sure app\u2019s security and functionality. \u201cWhatsApp is notifying affected users by displaying an alert as soon as they open the app. The message notes that starting on September 8, 2026, WhatsApp will no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006026,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006025\/revisions\/1006026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}