Google to shut down Hangouts later this year!
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Back in February, Google changed the Hangouts app for Workspace users with the more recent Google Chat. Google is making plans to shut down older Hangouts apps later in the year and move all current users to Google Chat.
Google has announced in a weblog publish that Hangouts will give up existing in November 2022. Users who use the platform on a laptop or cellular might be requested in the event that they would like to migrate to Google Chat. Chat records from Hangouts might be mechanical to be had on Google Chat. Users will also be capable of downloading all of their Hangouts records previous to the platform being shut down.
Starting today, people the use of Hangouts on cellular will see an in-app screen asking them to move to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. People who use the Hangouts Chrome extension can be asked to put in the Chat web software or pass to Chat in Gmail. In July, those who use Hangouts in Gmail at the net can be upgraded to Chat in Gmail, Google said in the post.
Google also said that Hangouts users might nevertheless receive an in-product word for at least one month after Hangouts web is eliminated. Hangouts internet users will be automatically redirected to Google Chat internet after this.
Hangouts were launched in 2013 and changed into intended to update GChat (no longer be harassed with the more recent Google Chat). GChat, or as a few people are aware of it, Google Talk, became shut down in advance this month, and after Hangouts suffers a comparable fate later this year, it seems Google Chat can be Google’s present-day strive at bringing a seamlessly included instant messaging service across devices.
