Discovery+ app telling me to update my device to Android 7.1

gomezz — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:39:34 GMT

Curious! As this was when I opened the app on the my mobile phone which is running Android 16.

Not so curious. I suspect the notifications was generated because i also use the app on my old tablet running Android 7.

Perhaps they do not realise people use the app on several devices - I also run it on my Chromecast dongle so that is three devices for me.

I am presuming that I will have to go back to running the web site version of Discovery+ on my old tablet which I have done before during a time when the app was broken.

Re: Discovery+ app telling me to update my device to Android 7.1

Kimberlin — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:59:04 GMT

@gomezz

Yes, bizarre that your Discovery+ App is telling you to ahhh ‘upgrade’ to an Android version that stopped being officially supported back in 2019. Indeed it no longer has any security certificates issued for that version which quite frankly, would I suggest, make it extremely unwise to use on the old tablet.

Android annoys me too much. I have a perfectly working Android tablet and spare smart phone that are now completely unsupported. That’s why I’m very much an Apple fan boy now.

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