Time to say goodbye to Android Lollipop.
Meta-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has ended support for Android 5.0 and Android 5.1 Lollipop, leaving smartphones stuck on the decade-old software outside WhatsApp’s supported-device requirements and at risk of losing access.
The cutoff took effect Sept. 8, raising the platform’s baseline requirement to Android 6.0 Marshmallow for both WhatsApp Messenger and WhatsApp Business. The shift was flagged in April, when WABetaInfo reported that WhatsApp had begun showing affected users in-app notices about the coming cutoff.
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