No WhatsApp after June 30 on these operating systems

If you use a smartphone that runs Symbian operating system, you should probably start looking for a WhatsApp alternative right now. As reported earlier, the instant messaging app will end its support for BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10 and Nokia S60 platforms on June 30.

Last year, the instant messaging app also ended its support for Android 2.2 Froyo, iOS 6 and Windows Phone 7.

Last year itself, Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced that it'd be ending support for a few more platforms. However, WhatsApp later announced that it'll be extending support for the platforms till June 2017. The announcement was made after BlackBerry expressed its disappointment with WhatsApp's decision.

The reason mentioned for WhatsApp withdrawing support for these platforms is that they don't have the kind of capabilities it needs to expand the app's features.

WhatsApp Support page reads, "These platforms don't offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app's features in the future. If you use one of these affected mobile devices, we recommend upgrading to a newer OS version, or to a newer Android running OS 2.3.3+, iPhone running iOS 7+, or Windows Phone 8+ so that you can continue using WhatsApp."

Although currently there is no way that users can transfer their chat history between two platforms, they can send the entire chat history to their email and save it, if required.

WhatsApp's Support page has the complete steps for doing this.

WhatsApp has been quoted saying that in 2009, Android and iOS platforms were running on less than 25% of the devices and this was the time when BlackBerry and Nokia's OS dominated the market with almost 70% share. WhatsApp's latest decision throws light on how the two OS' have lost their popularity.