Google Chat to completely substitute traditional Hangouts for Workspace customers from March

If you’re a Google Workspace person, the traditional Hangouts messaging service will begin to disappear subsequent month as a part of the transition to Google Chat. Google has announced that it’ll make Google Chat its default chat software starting March twenty second, that means customers will likely be redirected to Chat once they attempt to go to Hangouts in Gmail on the net, or attempt to use the previous Hangouts cell apps.

The shift from Google Hangouts to Google Chat is the newest step in Google’s consistently evolving messaging technique, which usually will get extra complicated the extra you examine it. This particular migration kicked into gear in June 2020, and focusses on the messaging service built-in with Gmail. Google Chat shouldn’t be confused with GChat, the unofficial title for Google Talk, which was formally killed off in 2017 and changed with — you guessed it — Hangouts.

Existing Hangouts dialog histories will carry over into Chat besides in “a few special cases,” Google says. Although it’s not potential to decide out of this transition, Google provides that the hangouts.google.com area will proceed to work.

For now, this transformation is just affecting Workspace customers, in addition to legacy G Suite Basic and Business prospects. In different phrases, it’s impacting individuals who use Google’s companies as a part of a enterprise or group. But 9to5Google notes that Google has beforehand indicated free Google Account customers will undergo the identical transition after Workspace.