diff --git a/web/app.react.js b/web/app.react.js
--- a/web/app.react.js
+++ b/web/app.react.js
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 import { EditModalProvider } from './chat/edit-message-provider.js';
 import { MemberListSidebarProvider } from './chat/member-list-sidebar/member-list-sidebar-provider.react.js';
 import NavigationArrows from './components/navigation-arrows.react.js';
+import MinVersionHandler from './components/version-handler.react.js';
 import { olmAPI } from './crypto/olm-api.js';
 import electron from './electron.js';
 import InputStateContainer from './input/input-state-container.react.js';
@@ -226,6 +227,7 @@
                     <PushNotificationsHandler />
                     <InviteLinkHandler />
                     <InviteLinksRefresher />
+                    <MinVersionHandler />
                     {content}
                   </ChatMentionContextProvider>
                 </MessageSearchStateProvider>
diff --git a/web/components/version-handler.css b/web/components/version-handler.css
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/components/version-handler.css
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+.modalContent {
+  color: var(--text-background-primary-default);
+  font-size: var(--s-font-14);
+  margin-top: 8px;
+  display: flex;
+}
+
+.wrapper {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-shrink: 1;
+  justify-content: center;
+}
+
+.ancestryContainer {
+  display: flex;
+  justify-content: center;
+  align-items: center;
+  height: 40px;
+  background-color: var(--frame-background-tertiary-default);
+  margin-top: 20px;
+}
diff --git a/web/components/version-handler.react.js b/web/components/version-handler.react.js
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/components/version-handler.react.js
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+// @flow
+
+import * as React from 'react';
+
+import { useModalContext } from 'lib/components/modal-provider.react.js';
+import { allConnectionInfosSelector } from 'lib/selectors/keyserver-selectors.js';
+import { isDesktopPlatform } from 'lib/types/device-types.js';
+import { getConfig } from 'lib/utils/config.js';
+
+import css from './version-handler.css';
+import Modal from '../modals/modal.react.js';
+import { useSelector } from '../redux/redux-utils.js';
+
+function VersionUnsupportedModal(): React.Node {
+  const { popModal } = useModalContext();
+
+  const actionRequestMessage = isDesktopPlatform(
+    getConfig().platformDetails.platform,
+  )
+    ? 'Please reload the app'
+    : 'Please refresh the page';
+
+  return (
+    <Modal name="App version unsupported" onClose={popModal} size="large">
+      <div className={css.modalContent}>
+        Your app version is pretty old, and the server doesn’t know how to speak
+        to it anymore. {actionRequestMessage}.
+      </div>
+    </Modal>
+  );
+}
+
+function MinVersionHandler(): null {
+  const connections = useSelector(allConnectionInfosSelector);
+
+  const isClientVersionUnsupported = React.useMemo(() => {
+    const connectionIssues = Object.values(connections).map(
+      connection => connection?.connectionIssue,
+    );
+    return connectionIssues.includes('client_version_unsupported');
+  }, [connections]);
+
+  const isClientVersionUnsupportedPrev = React.useRef(false);
+  const { pushModal } = useModalContext();
+
+  React.useEffect(() => {
+    if (isClientVersionUnsupported && !isClientVersionUnsupportedPrev.current) {
+      isClientVersionUnsupportedPrev.current = true;
+      pushModal(<VersionUnsupportedModal />);
+    }
+  }, [isClientVersionUnsupported, pushModal]);
+
+  return null;
+}
+
+export default MinVersionHandler;