{"id":10147,"date":"2017-04-19T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2018-07-28T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T17:07:27","slug":"whatsapp-ending-support-windows-phone-7-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/whatsapp-ending-support-windows-phone-7-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Ending Support for Windows Phone 7 Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chatting giant WhatsApp recently announced the end of Windows Phone 7 support. At the time, they also mentioned ending support for other devices in an official document as well. If your phone isn\u2019t one of the ones affected by this change (see the list below), chances are it could still stand to feel like new again. WhatsApp makes it easy to amass large amounts of files. These files are likely taking up way too much space on your phone, which will cause your phone to slow down. Use dfndr\u00a0security&#8217;s WhatsApp Cleaner to start removing old, unwanted files from the app:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"psafe:\/\/launch\/whatsapp_photo_cleaner\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/clean-whatsapp-photos-300x56.jpg\" alt=\"clean-whatsapp-photos\" width=\"300\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/clean-whatsapp-photos-300x56.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/clean-whatsapp-photos.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\nTo use WhatsApp Cleaner, click the link above or else open the dfndr security app. Then, go to \u201cTools\u201d and then select the \u201cClean WhatsApp\u201d feature. Decide which files you actually want to keep, but resist the temptation to keep the rest of them. You can choose to remove old photos, videos, GIFs, or audio files. Click \u201cDelete Selected Files\u201d to remove the individual files that you no longer wish to have on your device. Every file chosen for inclusion will be deleted from your phone. It will definitely give you more room on your phone \u2014 and improve your phone\u2019s performance, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read More: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/respond-insufficient-storage-available-error\/\"><b>How to Respond to the \u201cInsufficient Storage Available\u201d Error<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Why WhatsApp Ended Windows Phone 7 Support<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s been 7 years since WhatsApp began. In that time, the company looked at their work as a whole, determining where they wanted to concentrate their focus in the years to come. The official statement, as released by WhatsApp on the WhatsApp blog, shared that they would cease support for the following phones at the end of 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry 10<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nokia S40<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nokia Symbian S60<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Android 2.1 and Android 2.2<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Windows Phone 7<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of those items listed above have changed. WhatsApp did include an official update to extend support for BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, Nokia S40, and Nokia Symbian S60 until June 30, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s what WhatsApp had to say about the decision: \u201cWhen we started WhatsApp in 2009, people&#8217;s use of mobile devices looked very different from today. The Apple App Store was only a few months old. About 70 percent of smartphones sold at the time had operating systems offered by BlackBerry and Nokia. Mobile operating systems offered by Google, Apple, and Microsoft \u2014 which account for 99.5 percent of sales today \u2014 were on less than 25 percent of mobile devices sold at the time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, WhatsApp will put their energies towards the technology that people are actually using in large numbers. WhatsApp recommends a phone upgrade ahead of the deadline for WhatsApp users who want to continue with uninterrupted service.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Phone 7 owners will no longer have WhatsApp support; other phones aren&#8217;t far behind. See if your phone will be losing support in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[942,252,306,195,309,349,3319,151,145],"class_list":["post-10147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","tag-app0","tag-app1","tag-app4","tag-app5","tag-app7","tag-phone","tag-social-network","tag-whatsapp","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19185,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions\/19185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}