New Delhi: Come 27 September and Google will cease permitting customers to sign up on gadgets operating on Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread and different variations that had been launched earlier than 2010.
Apps like Gmail, YouTube and Maps will cease engaged on such gadgets from that day.
“As a part of our ongoing efforts to maintain our customers protected, Google will not enable sign-in on Android gadgets that run Android 2.3.7 or decrease beginning September 27, 2021,” the company said in a support page. “If you sign into your device after September 27, you may get username or password errors when you try to use Google products and services like Gmail, YouTube, and Maps,” it added.
The change shouldn’t have an effect on too many customers, given that the majority gadgets right this moment are launched on Android 10 or above. According to Stat Counter, variations of Android earlier than Ice Cream Sandwich (model 4.0), which was launched in 2011, account for less than about 0.1 p.c of all of the Android gadgets operating on this planet.
The firm did say that there are over three billion Android gadgets on this planet although, so that also makes about 3 million smartphones that can develop into virtually fully ineffective from September 27 onwards. “When assist ends for sign-in with a Google Account on Android 2.3.7 and beneath, you’ll obtain a username or password error if you happen to attempt to sign up to your gadgets or so as to add an electronic mail or calendar account,” the publish stated.
According to Google, sure actions may result in errors. This contains performing a manufacturing unit reset, altering passwords on any of your gadgets which logs you out of different gadgets, eradicating your account from the machine and re-adding it, and creating a brand new account on such a tool.
The firm will nonetheless enable customers to make use of these companies by means of the net browser.
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