Google Hangouts has already been discontinued and is being changed by Google Chat, the corporate’s newest messaging service for customers and companies. The app was faraway from each the Google Play retailer and the App Store earlier this yr. Now Google has introduced that Hangouts on the internet will likely be upgraded to Google Chat as the ultimate step in fully changing Google Hangouts — the messaging service that debuted in 2013 as a Google+ function — with Google Chat, the default messaging app for Google Workspace customers. The transition will start from November 1, in keeping with the corporate.

Gadgets 360 acquired an electronic mail from the Google Apps Team asserting the upcoming improve from Hangouts on the internet to Chat on the internet. “We are emailing you because some of your conversations or portions of conversations won’t automatically migrate from Hangouts to Chat,” the e-mail learn. You can test your inbox for communication from Google. The firm means that in case you want to maintain your Hangouts conversations, you have to “use Google Takeout and easily download your data before January 1, 2023 when Hangouts data will be deleted.”

The Hangouts on the internet and conversations on the platform will stay accessible in Hangouts till November 1, 2022. If you delete conversations from Google Hangouts, the corresponding content material in Google Chat may additionally get deleted, “so don’t delete any conversations you wish to keep.” If you do not need to transfer to Chat, you may cease utilizing it at any time. “You can also delete conversations in Chat or delete your Google account entirely” however that may even delete all the info content material in that account.

Google says that Google Chat “offers closer integration with other Google Workspace products as well as modern features” and that is why it’s migrating to Chat. The trendy options on Google Chat embody gif picker and Spaces, which is a devoted place for topic-based collaboration — identical to on Twitter.

Earlier this yr, Google delisted the Hangouts app from the Google Play retailer in addition to Apple’s App Store in a transfer to forestall new customers from downloading the discontinued chat app on iOS and Android gadgets. Google Hangouts shifting to Google Chat was reported again in November 2018. The firm started transitioning Workspace customers from Hangouts to Meet in October 2020.