Google Hangouts has already discontinue and is being replace by Google Chat, the company’s latest messaging service for users and businesses. This app was remove from both the Google Play store and the App Store earlier in 2022.
Google has announce that Hangouts on the web will be upgrade to Google Chat as the final step in completely replacing Google Hangouts, the messaging service that debute in 2013 as a Google+ feature with Google Chat, the default messaging app for Google Workspace users.
This transition will begin from 1st November 2022, as per Google.
Google Apps Team announcing the upcoming upgrade from Hangouts on the web to Chat on the web.
Google suggests that if you wish to keep your Hangouts conversations, you must “use Google Takeout and easily download your data before 1st January, 2023 when Hangouts data will be delete.”
The Google Hangouts on the web and conversations on the platform will remain accessible in Hangouts until 1st November, 2022.
If you delete conversations from Google Hangouts, the corresponding content in Google Chat may also get delete, “so don’t delete any conversations you wish to keep.”
If you don’t want to move to Chat, you can stop using it at any time.
“You can also delete conversations in Chat or delete your Google account entirely” but that will also delete all the data content in that account.
Google says that Google Chat “offers closer integration with other Google Workspace products as well as modern features” and that’s why it is migrating to Chat.
The modern features on Google Chat include gif picker and Spaces, which is a dedicate place for topic-base collaboration same as on Twitter.
Earlier in 2022, Google delist the Hangouts app from the Google Play store as well as Apple’s App Store in a move to prevent new users from downloading the discontinue chat app on iOS and Android devices.
Google Hangouts moving to Google Chat was report back in November 2018.
Google began transitioning Workspace users from Hangouts to Meet in October 2020.
