Huawei no longer has the right to install Facebook apps WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger on its smartphones

Whether it's Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger, Huawei will no longer be able to install the group's apps on their smartphones before they leave their factories. This measure does not only concern future models to come, but already all the phones currently being manufactured.

Buyers of Huawei smartphones still Android can still download applications published by Facebook on the Play Store. It seems difficult to think in these conditions that the social network will make its applications available on the future operating system that prepares the Chinese.

Huawei smartphones also include the Twitter and Booking apps, but neither company wanted to communicate about their choice to Reuters.