WhatsApp will soon ditch support for some iPhone models. Here’s when it’s happening and if you have to upgrade your phone.
WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world. But even with its wide reach, the app can’t always support every different device out there. The company regularly updates its help center to let users know which devices it still supports. Now, the messaging app has announced (via WABetaInfo) that some older iPhone models that are currently supported won’t be able to use WhatsApp as of May 2025.
Currently, WhatsApp requires iOS 12 or later. But it will soon change the list of supported devices to iPhone models running iOS 15.1 or newer. With that, even if you’re running an older WhatsApp TestFlight build, you won’t be able to use the messaging platform unless your device can run iOS 15.
