My wyze camera3 was working fine before the update recently. Now my phone has to be a newer phone otherwise I’m unable to download the app. I’m not buying a new phone so I can download the app. If this is how the wyze company works…I’m not buying their cameras.
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Welcome to the REAL world. Technology keeps moving on. Nothing abnormal about old hardware no longer being supported. And certainly not unique to Wyze.
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Tough love. 
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That has nothing to do with Wyze. It’s your phone that is not being supported by Google. Wyze could care less what type of phone you have, all they care is the OS version on that phone. Give it some time and you won’t be able to download any of the apps you have on your phone.
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So you’re running Android 8 or older? I was disappointed to see my old spare phone no longer supports the new 3.0 app but not at all surprised, there are tons of things it doesn’t support. My main phone supports it fine. Android 8 is from like 7 years ago and went end of support in 2021, no security updates since then.
If you insist on keeping your security risk of a phone, you can root it and sideload the old 2.5 app, then turn off auto updates.
You’re really going to be upset when Windows 10 goes end of support next year and you find out Windows 11 will only run on PCs made in the last few years (there are workarounds though).
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The workaround is called linux.
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No surprise for what made in China…they are trash
You better check the label of almost everything you own then including your shoes 
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I’ll second @Antonius ‘s sentiment. What’s not made in China these days?
Another workaround is use Rufus to update to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. I have Windows 11 running on an 11 year old Lenovo laptop (which originally shipped with Windows 8).
It is not super fast but works for single task computing. I originally experimented with Rufus because my wife will only use Windows OS even though I have computers with the latest Mac OS and Linux in the house.
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If you just want to upgrade I believe there is even a registry edit you can make, but yeah fresh install requires some extra steps.
I have a 2008 era Core 2 Quad desktop that still runs Windows 10 fine, it is essentially a NAS and I use it for a couple other things. May finally be time to replace it next year though. My 7th Gen i5 laptop may try to hack it to run 11 when support for 10 ends though.
I still have a 2008 laptop running Windows 7 that I use in the garage, it won’t run 10 only because it has discrete graphics and there is no driver for 10 (and compatibility mode with earlier drivers is awful). Even to get it to run 7 required Vista drivers. Maybe my 7th gen will move to the garage and it’ll be an excuse for a new laptop.
My biggest gripe is all the new laptops except certain expensive ones have no separate touchpad buttons, they are built into it. I leave my thumb on left click when I’m using the touchpad, and that confuses the ones with the buttons built into the sensitive zone. So I have to buy an expensive Latitude or the like. Even my brand new Lenovo for work doesn’t have the option to make that zone non-touch sensitive. Guess I’m the only one that does that with my thumb.
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I managed to install Windows 11 on 2 old Intel NUCs that both shipped with Windows 7. I might have also used rufus but I can’t remember now.
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Nope…I hate those touch pads as well which is why I have what I think is about a 15 year old laptop running Ubuntu.
The selection is getting slimmer and slimmer. Hopefully Latitudes keep it but I haven’t looked recently at their latest models. And of course, they’re much more expensive than normal laptops.
Samsung.
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Semantics
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Another workaround is use Rufus to update to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware. I have Windows 11 running on an 11 year old Lenovo laptop (which originally shipped with Windows 8).
I run Windows 10 on something similar (or the same?). Wish I was more of a laptop guy, as it’s one of the tightest machines I’ve ever owned. It’s a G50-45 (maybe an AMD quad core A8) and shipped with Windows 8 like yours. Someone gave it to me after breaking the screen, so I put a new matte finish LCD in it, and an SSD. It’s running one of those custom “Ghost Spectre” installs of 10, but it ran great on 7 for a long time too. Boots like lightning, makes no noise at all, and the keys are smooth and quiet.
Also, somewhat off topic as I know the Rufus thing is to create an install disk, but if anybody considers actually installing to an external USB drive (using WinToUSB,etc.), it sucks in most cases. I fought with that while trying to occasionally run 10 and Linux on my main (Win7/64) desktop, and the speed was horrendous. Someone explained to me how the USB access was different for a system drive, but it was a bit over my head. I’ve gotten it about as good as it could get by using an M.2 in an external USB3 housing, but thanks to USB-C, I then had to fight with keeping it from getting detected as a USB 2.0 device, but that’s another story. Something like eSATA would be ideal.
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I had Windows 10 on my Lenovo before using Rufus to get to Windows 11. I have the Windows 10 ISO on a flash drive and all my personal files backed up so I knew I could get back to Win 10 if needed.
I also wanted to update all my Win 10 machines before the Win 10 End Of Support in October 2025.
End of support for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 | Microsoft Windows.
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Yeah, I had to buy a 10 license for that external drive the other night and went ahead and bought an 11 instead, so I can upgrade later if I need to. The keys are supposed to be interchangeable.
I wouldn’t stress too much about that end of support stuff. I’ve been running last year’s Windows versions since all the way back at 98SE, and it usually takes quite a while after they kill one before that actually becomes a pain in the butt. 
Wow. Impressive, I think.