Google is finally replacing Hangouts Classic with Chat in 2021. The company says that the new app will become free early next year as it continues to integrate it — along with Meet — into Gmail.
Google Hangouts is expected to be shut down at some point in the future, but even with Google mostly moved on from it at this point, it looks like there are a few folks out there that still use and rely on the app.
Google is now beginning the integration of the new Google Chat service with its old Hangouts app. G Suite users will reap the benefits of the transition first as the firm continues to aim for a late 2020 transition.
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Google has now made its video-conferencing service, Meet, free for anyone who wants to use it as it battles the threat from Zoom.
Google is rolling out new features to its Meet videoconferencing service to enhance the user experience. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the service is seeing 2 million new users per day.
Google is rolling out a number of new features to Google Meet to capitalize on the increased demand for videoconferencing at the moment.
After the company dropped the Hangouts in Hangouts Meet, its enterprise-focused communication app is getting the same treatment, as Hangouts Chat is rechristened Google Chat.
Changes to Google's support documents, as well as public-facing communication from some of its execs, suggests the company may soon drop the "Hangouts" in Hangouts Meet.
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In a bid to help stave the spread of the Coronavirus by encouraging remote work, Google has announced that it's making the advanced video conferencing abilities of Hangouts Meet free for all G Suite users.
Google's latest update to Hangouts strips it of yet another feature, this time it's the ability to share your location.
Several Google services went down this morning, including Google Calendar, Hangouts Chat, and Hangouts Meet. It appears all services have been restored as of 7:43 AM EST.
Google has added live captions support on the Meet Android app. Users can now turn on live captions during a meeting with a single tap.
Hangouts is no longer a part of my regular group of messaging services. And all it took to finally switch over was a few weeks on WhatsApp — and now I'm wondering what took me so long.
G Suite customers now know when they need to move from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet — the rest of us, not so much.