Google has announced that the classic Hangouts This November will be closed to free users and chat will be converted to . will be migrated to chat, ‘the advanced Hangouts of the future’, so to speak. as Gmail Users know, this is no surprise announcement and the tech giant has been sending out reminders regarding the migration of chats for quite some time now. Only this time, it has revealed which month it is going to end classic Hangouts. Google Enterprise customers have already been made to switch to chat.
Free, personal accounts still using the old Hangouts Android and iOS, will soon start seeing an upgrade screen prompting them to either chat in the Gmail app or switch to the mobile chat client on the platform.
“First of all, starting today, people using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app screen asking them to go to a chat in Gmail or chat app, Similarly, people who use the Hangouts Chrome extension will be asked to go into a chat on the web or install the Chat web app. In July, people who use Hangouts in Gmail on the web will be upgraded to Chat in Gmail,” Google said in a blog post.
The tech giant also advised users who want to keep a copy of their Hangouts data to use Google Takeout to download it.
Google has added the option to edit Docs, Slides or Sheets with side-by-side editing in chat. google chat Also comes with Space, a space dedicated to a certain subject. With the new unified view in Gmail, chat can be used with Inbox, Meet, and Spaces. Google also said that it will be adding new features like direct calling to chat, in-line threading in Spaces and the ability to share and view multiple images in the coming months.
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