PSA: WhatsApp will stop working on these iPhones starting June 1

Heads up if you or someone you know is still rocking an older iPhone: WhatsApp is officially dropping support for several legacy smartphones starting this Sunday, June 1st. As part of its regular update cycle, the Meta-owned messaging app is raising its minimum requirements. Originally, the change had been planned for May 5th. However, it seems the new cutoff date was pushed by a few weeks and landed on June 1st. So starting this Sunday, WhatsApp will only work on iPhones running iOS 15.1 or later. Devices stuck on Android 5.0 or earlier are also being dropped. In practice, this means WhatsApp will no longer work on the following iPhone models: iPhone 5s iPhone 6 iPhone 6 Plus Some reports have included these models in the list: iPhone 6s iPhone 6s Plus iPhone SE (1st gen) However, these devices support up to iOS 15.8.4. So if they’re up to date with the latest supported iOS version, they should be good until the next WhatsApp cutoff update, which likely won’t happen for ano ... Read full article.