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Read all the Latest News, Breaking News, watch Top Videos and Live TV here. “Switching to Chat also makes expressing yourself more fun, whether you are using emojis with skin-tone selections, rich text editing to give your chats emphasis, to notify someone in the group or sending a GIF,” the company said. In addition to this, Google is bringing more rich interface features that add further appeal to Chat for users. It is easy to see that Google wants to make Chats an able competitor to other collaborative platforms like Slack, Flock, Teams and more. This way, people can engage in conversation with their colleagues or friends and collaborate on different files. Chat will let users edit files from Docs, Slides and even Sheets thanks to the side-by-side editing feature.Īlso Read: Apple TV Will Not Support The Facebook Watch App Anymore: Here’s Why In a recent blog post, Google stated that users of Hangouts on desktop and mobile devices will be urged to switch to Google Chat before Hangouts is discontinued. Hangouts will remain usable on its desktop site until November. The latest product switch makes a lot of sense in terms of the further integration that users get on Chat with other Google products. As for users who use Hangouts in Gmail on the web, Google says it won’t start prompting users to make the switch to Chat until July.
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It also says that for PC users with the Hangouts Chrome extension will have to move to Chat on the web or install the Chat web app. Those of you using Hangouts on your phone will get a pop-up screen telling them to switch to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. “We have continued to invest in Chat to help people better collaborate and express themselves, and now we are taking steps to help remaining Hangouts users move to Chat,” Ravi Kanneganti, Product Manager, Google Chat, said in a blogpost. Hangouts will split into two separate applications: Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. The decision to shut down Hangouts is reportedly part of Google’s new business-friendly offensive.
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The company says Chat has been refurnished with new tools and better integration for users.Īlso Read: Google Introduces Offline Gmail: Here’s How To Read, Send And Search For Emails Without Internet On Tuesday, Google announced that its messaging app, Google Hangouts, will shut down in October. Google has told that users on Hangouts can download their data before November. If you use Google Chat, visit the Google Chat help center.

Google Hangouts is being replaced by Google Chat.

The move was first announced in October 2020, and by November this year, Hangouts will be shut down by the search engine giant. Is Google Hangouts shutting down - classic Hangouts and Google Chat Community. Since 2019, Google as we exclusively reported has been telegraphing that classic Hangouts will be.
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Google announced today that classic Hangouts is going away for free users in October and laid out the migration plans to Chat. Google Hangouts is going away later this year, and the company is starting the migration process of its users to the Chat platform. All Workspace customers were migrated to Google Chat earlier this year.
