Windows Phone has been having ‘rejection’ issues since 2015, now Facebook has decided that it will pull down its apps for the Windows phone platform come end of this month, April. It’s not only the Facebook App that is being removed but also, Instagram and Messenger apps.
Windows phone Reddit users spotted this when they got notified that Instagram’s official app is going away this end month. The remaining users will have to resort to browsing Facebook and Instagram on their browsers or using apps like
It has been a roller coaster for Windows Phone users when Lumia phones launched and lacked official apps from these social media
Now things will be a little ‘thicker’ for the users as third-party apps that used to provide the Apps before Facebook came to the rescue have exited the store since 2015.
Facebook’s apps have been the most popular free apps for the Windows phone platform and the social media giant bidding farewell to its apps is going to hurt the remaining users.
The Windows Phone platform has been on its death bed since Microsoft announced that they were killing it off in 2016 due to low sales that are still affecting even existing giant smartphone manufacturers like Apple and Samsung.
The remaining people who’ve stuck with Windows phone for various reasons such the preference to their devices cameras, privacy issues with iOS and Android or Facebook itself.
Redmond-based tech giant stopped issuing software and security updates from last year December(Windows 10 Mobile version 1703 support ends in June and version 1709 ends in December) and that should worry users as this could be