Millions of devices lose Whats App

WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps worldwide? Throughout the year, WhatsApp has been making huge headlines in the world and in social media. The company's decision to stop supporting WhatsApp over millions of phones has been a hotly debated topic on social media ever since.

Our hope in this article is to inform you of the truth of the story. WhatsApp is one of the main messaging platforms Facebook has? It is one of the main communication systems in many countries of the world and in Sri Lanka. Facebook recently announced via its support page that WhatsApp will no longer support phones running older operating systems from February 2020.

The phones that will cease to be supported are iPhone phones running Apple's iOS 8 or earlier versions of Apple in 2014. The company has discontinued WhatsApp support for phones running Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) operating system.

They also report it that if the old operating system runs on a different phone or creates new accounts or verifies an existing account, there is a possibility that they will block these accounts. This is an opinion that many haves expressed with this news; WhatsApp will stop supporting Microsoft's Windows phones, which are gradually declining. However, the latest version of Windows 8.1 and the new version does not affect phones.

By chance, it enables Dark Mode

Dark Mode is a convenience that anyone with a phone can enjoy. We have already introduced a dark Mode to most apps. When using the phone at night, the white screen can be quite eye catching. Adding Blue Light Filters to the Screen Many manufacturers offer features such as Reading Mode, but using Black Backgrounds or Dark Mode apps is an even better solution.

Dark Mode enables users with Amoled / Oled / Super AMOLED screens to save significantly more battery life. WhatsApp users have been waiting for this feature for some time. Recently, wonderful news spread through social media. It's about a bug that enabled WhatsApp Dark Mode. This has happened to several users who are using beta versions of WhatsApp.


When a YouTube link was sent to another person via WhatsApp, they clicked on the thumbnail and played the video as a picture-in-picture (PIP). There are a few users who are using the Android 10 operating system. But what we have heard is that this is something that only a handful of people have. However, the company has taken steps to remedy the issue.

WhatsApp has not responded to queries made by several websites including independent.co.uk. The company has not issued a statement on the date of official WhatsApp Dark Mode.