Attention Whatsapp users! This might be really important news for you. For all the chat savvy users who constantly use this instant messaging app, the company is ending support to a number of devices which will no longer be able to run Whatsapp post December 31.

Whatsapp which is the most popular messaging application platform used by almost 90 percent of smartphone users in India will no longer support some mobile devices as their planning to expand their app features and add more security tools to their App.

Yes, as part of effort in bringing better services to their esteem customers, Whatsapp have decided to announce December 31st 2016 as the end date of supporting for some old versions of smartphones.

These phones won’t be completely blocked, but they will lose out on a lot of upcoming features. In short, users having these smartphones will only be able to use WhatsApp till the app is compatible.

According to a statement released earlier this year WhatsApp will no longer have support for a few Symbian, BBOS, Windows, Android and iOS operating system versions.

If you are one of them who are using Windows 7 , Symbian , nokia or black berry and some older Version of android smartphone then its a bad news for you.

Users with these smartphone should know that their WhatsApp information could be at higher risks. Using WhatsApp on older smartphone operating systems and on feature phones could pose a higher security threat later since there would be no more updates and security patches from the WhatsApp development team.

Third-party developers would opt for the versions and tweak it in order to make them function. However, using a third-party or tweaked application is never recommended and can contain spyware, adware or malware.

WhatsApp had announced the end of support for the some operating systems on their blog in late February, 2016 as a notice like,

‘So, by the end of 2016, we will be ending support for WhatsApp Messenger on the following mobile platforms:

BlackBerry, including BlackBerry 10

Nokia S40

Nokia Symbian S60

Android 2.1 and Android 2.2

Windows Phone 7.1

iPhone 3GS/iOS 6

While these mobile devices have been an important part of our story, they 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 Android, iPhone, or Windows Phone before the end of 2016 to continue using WhatsApp.’

Those who are using older smartphones and feature phones are advised to upgrade to a latest smartphone if they want to continue using WhatsApp in future.