Hangouts holdouts should lastly say goodbye to Google’s most resilient chat app later this yr. On Monday, the corporate it might begin migrating shopper Hangouts customers to Chat earlier than the previous is not accessible after November 2022. If you continue to use Hangouts on cell, you’ll see a immediate beginning as we speak to maneuver to both the standalone Chat app or the Chat expertise in Gmail. “Hangouts has been replaced by Google Chat,” the corporate declares within the notification.

Over on Gmail, Google gained’t start prodding Hangouts customers to modify over till July. The will stay accessible till November, and the corporate says customers may have “at least” one month of warning earlier than the platform’s webpage begins mechanically redirecting to the Chat web site as an alternative. If you’re nonetheless actively utilizing Hangouts, Google guarantees your conversations will mechanically switch to its newer app. That stated, it’s also possible to use the corporate’s to obtain a replica of your knowledge.

Google has been step by step phasing out the Hangouts model in favor of its newer messaging companies for a while now, so it’s not stunning the corporate has lastly determined to sundown the platform. And whereas it by no means loved the recognition of some prompt messaging apps, Hangouts had its religious followers.