Thus, iPhone 4S owners will no longer be able to use the popular messenger. Recall that the operating system iOS 9 was released back in 2015. It was released alongside the iPhone 6S, which has now been updated to iOS 14.

Moreover, the prerequisites for such an outcome were discovered at the beginning of this month. Then the authors of the WABetaInfo portal said that Facebook specialists are working on a new beta version 2.21.50 for WhatsApp. Then it was said that it will not be able to function on smartphones based on iOS 9. Now it has been officially confirmed.