NatWest and RBS Windows phone apps to be retired in November

The Purple Banking concern of Scotland is killing off ii of its Windows phone apps in the coming months. Both the NatWest and RBS apps are now alerting users that they will stop working in lx days, and neither is bachelor to download from the Microsoft Store whatever longer.

The bulletin existence delivered to users states:

In threescore days, your mobile banking app on your Windows device will stop working and is no longer available in the shop. To continue cyberbanking on the go, you can download the app on an iOS or Android device alternatively you tin can keep using online banking for your everyday banking needs.

It's not necessarily a surprise to see both apps are maxim goodbye to the platform, as Windows phone has seen an exodus of support for banking apps over the past yr or so. Windows 10 Mobile itself is no longer seeing active development, only receiving security fixes with each monthly "Patch Tuesday" update.

For now, both RBS and NatWest are nevertheless listed in the Microsoft Shop if you lot use the direct link, but they're no longer searchable and aren't available to download. Given that the message about their retirement began going out to users on September seven, you'll have through the first week of November to go on using the app before it stops working.

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