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Messenger applications for Windows, Instagram, Windows Phone will stop working soon. |
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Facebook is intending to resign a portion of its Windows Phone applications on April 30. As affirmed by a Microsoft representative, the Facebook will stop supporting Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger applications for Windows Phone toward the end of this current month, leaving the users helpless before third-party apps and mobile Web versions of these services. The destiny of WhatsApp Windows Phone application is unclear right now. WhatsApp just supports Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile versions and it is yet to say anything regarding ending support for the Windows Phone version of its application.
This is by all accounts the period of closing down items. Following in the strides of Google, which as of late closed down Google+, Inbox by Gmail, and Allo, Facebook will resign three of its apps on April 30. Following the shutdown, the mobile Web versions of the services or third-party apps will be the sole approach to access these services from Windows Phone or Windows 10 Mobile devices.
The up and coming end of support for Facebook apps was first announced by Engadget, which has got affirmation from Microsoft about the impending end of these applications.
Facebook's choice to end support for these apps is not really astounding given the Windows Phone stage is officially dead. Indeed, even Microsoft will stop supporting the most recent version of Windows 10 Mobile – 1709 – in December this year. The phones with The phone with Windows 10 Mobile 1703 will lose support by June. Many of the major apps have officially stopped supporting Windows Phone devices.