WhatsApp Messenger Updated to Work on iOS 4 and iOS 5 Again
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Posted December 12, 2013 at 1:15am by iClarified
WhatsApp messenger has been updated to work on iOS 4 and iOS 5, after the recent 2.11.6 update had a bug that instantly crashed the app for those users.
WhatsApp Messenger is a smartphone messenger available for iPhone and other smartphones. WhatsApp uses your 3G or WiFi (when available) to message with friends and family. Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, pictures, audio notes, and video messages.
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* NO HIDDEN COST: Once you and your friends download the application, you can use it to chat as much as you want. Send a million messages a day to your friends for free! WhatsApp uses your Internet connection: 3G/EDGE or Wi-Fi when available.
* MULTIMEDIA: Send Video, Images, and Voice notes to your friends and contacts.
* GROUP CHAT: Enjoy group conversations with your contacts. Add or Remove group participants, change group subject and set a group icon.
* PERSONAL: Set a profile photo which will be shown to all your contacts
* NO INTERNATIONAL CHARGES: Just like there is no added cost to send an international email, there is no cost to send WhatsApp messages internationally. Chat with your friends all over the world as long as they have WhatsApp Messenger installed and avoid those pesky international SMS costs.
* SAY NO TO PINS AND USERNAMES: Why even bother having to remember yet another PIN or username? WhatsApp works with your phone number, just like SMS would, and integrates flawlessly with your existing phone address book.
* NO NEED TO LOG IN/OUT: No more confusion about getting logged off from another computer or device. With push notifications WhatsApp is ALWAYS ON and ALWAYS CONNECTED.
* NO NEED TO ADD BUDDIES: Your Address Book is used to automatically connect you with your contacts. Your contacts who already have WhatsApp Messenger will be automatically displayed under Favorites, similar to a buddy list.
* OFFLINE MESSAGES: Even if you miss your push notifications or turn off your iPhone, WhatsApp will save your messages offline until you retrieve them during the next application use.
* AND MUCH MORE: Share location and places, Exchange contacts, Custom wallpaper, Custom notification sounds, Landscape mode, Message timestamps, Email chat history, Broadcast messages and media to many contacts at once, and much much more!
What's New In This Version: 2.11.7
- make the app work again for iOS 4 and iOS 5 users
You can download WhatsApp Messenger from the App Store for free.
Tried to download on 3GS, 4.1 and it says it requires a minimum of 4.3. If you're going to make it compatible and advertise it to be fully compatible with iOS 4, why not make it compatible down with 4.0?!
the article reads iOS 4, but it doesn't work for anything less than iOS 4.3
which means nothing less than iPhone 3GS. and that also means, very few iOS 4 users, since iPhone 3GS mostly run on iOS 6 now.
i don't think its worth to jailbreak the phone for just this. the person using it is a client, and a business user who doesn't think its necessary to spend $1000 on a new iphone right now, since everything he needs to use his iphone 3G for, seems to be working fine so far. he just wants to use Whatsapp, and wouldn't want the headache of a jailbroken phone.
i'm running Whatsapp on many newer iPhones, and also a Nokia S40 series phone where it works on the older platform. surprised that Whatsapp uses a "framework" that excludes the clientele of the iPhone 3G
It still doesn't work on iPhone 3G. Earlier the App Store would allow a legacy version to be downloaded and then it would tell to upgrade the app. But now, it refuses to support less than ios4.3
The only way to make it work in iOS 4.2.1 (iPhone 3G) is to tweak a plist file (you have to be jailbroken tough). Using the iFile jailbroken tool, you have to edit the file /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist and change version from 4.2.1 to 4.3.1, save and then fully reboot your iPhone (HOME+POWER until the Apple logo appears). Then you should be able to install WhatsApp, but you can't be sure it won't fail eventually. iOS 4.2.1 doesn't have all the Frameworks iOS 4.3 has (and I assume developers from WhatsApp restricted it to that version for some reason). Use at your own risk.
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