Once there, sign in with the Google Account you use for Hangouts. Here's how users can download their Hangouts data: Therefore, users who wish to keep a copy of their conversations can download it before January 1, 2023, when all of the data on Hangouts will get deleted, the company explained. Image used only for representationĪlso Read: Google lauds HT Digital Streams' customer data platform implementationĪs part of the migration, some conversations or portions of conversations will not transfer from Hangouts to Chat on their own, Google said. Till the said date, Hangouts will be available only on the web, but, starting November 2, users will be automatically redirected to Chat. While some users may have already shifted to Chat, the tech giant has said that those who are yet to migrate should do so by November 1. As usual, there's a client built into, and there's even a client built into the Gmail app , which can lead to the awkward situation of your Chat messages arriving in two apps.Earlier this year, Google announced it will close its Hangouts platform, and make Google Chat its default chat application. Instead of the iOS and Android versions of Hangouts, you'll be pushed to the Google Chat apps, which both have better interfaces. On desktop, instead of or the Hangouts Chrome extension, there's, which is also an installable progressive web app. Starting today, most Google Hangouts clients will start pushing users to Google Chat. While most follow-ups to Google Hangouts have been severely lacking in comparable features, Google Chat is a decent upgrade to Google Hangouts, so there are Google Chat options for all the Hangouts clients you may have been using. After several delays, Workspace customers (the paid business version of Google apps) finally had Hangouts removed in March 2022, but regular consumers can still switch between Google Chat and Hangouts.

Google announced in 2018 that Hangouts would eventually be shut down. The service fell out of favor with Google's legendarily fickle messaging strategy in 2016 with the launch of Google Allo. As Android's default messaging service, Hangouts amassed 5 billion downloads, and at one point, it even handled Android SMS duties, just like Apple's iMessage. The service launched in 2013 as an in-place upgrade to Google Talk. Further Reading A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging appsThe shutdown of Hangouts has been a long time coming.

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