WhatsApp Turns 'Obsolete' for Many in India with No Update in Sight

2018 has merely started and it seems that WhatsApp, the most popular instant messaging service in the world, is not having a good start. After facing a global outage on New year's day'southward Eve and the discovery of a disquisitional flaw which allowed hackers to infiltrate group chats without seeking permission from an admin, the service has stopped working for many users in Bharat.

Every bit reported by many users on Twitter, WhatsApp has stopped working on their devices with the app telling them to update to a newer version if they want to keep using the service.

Nonetheless, the well-nigh frustrating thing almost this ordeal is the fact that users are finding that there's no update bachelor in the Play Shop. Some users fifty-fifty tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, merely that besides didn't solve the problem.

@WhatsApp #whatsapp app showing obsolete version but there is no upgrade on @GooglePlay store.#outrage #WhatsAppDown #NotSoAcheDin motion picture.twitter.com/Dg2giVT2dH

— Ankit Sanghavi (@Ankitsanghavi1) January 13, 2018

Although the problem is beingness reported for at to the lowest degree a week or so, information technology really spread at midnight, January 12, when a higher number of users started reporting this problem. As per reports, most of the users who are reporting this trouble are using Xiaomi devices. This is not the first trouble that Xiaomi devices take faced in this by as the company is currently also trying to solve the trouble of mismatched contacts bug.

That said, nosotros have multiple Xiaomi devices in our offices including Redmi Annotation 3, Redmi Annotation 4, and Xiaomi MiA1 and WhatsApp is notwithstanding working perfectly on them. We accept besides heard that WhatsApp is not working only on those devices on which the awarding came pre-installed i.e you didn't have to download the app separately. However, we have however not been able to verify this claim.

When asked to respond by Techcook.com, WhatsApp released a argument in which the company said that,

"On background, this is an issue that'due south being fixed. Information technology was a problem with how our app is distributed, which is not under our control."

The company's vague statement does not tell affected users anything nigh a gear up. Information technology will be bang-up if the company releases a ready for this problem instead of blaming OEMs.