Google has confirmed that it will permanently shutter Hangouts in November 2022. The platform's website, as well as the service, will remain active, and all the data will transfer to Google Chat.

Google Hangouts is about to go the way of the dodo bird. However, you will not immediately be cut off from your beloved Hangouts. Here is everything you need to know about backing up your Google ...

Google has announced that starting today, people who are still using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app prompt asking them to move to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. The company says the new prompt ...

All Workspace customers were migrated to Google Chat earlier this year. Google announced today that classic Hangouts is going away for free users in October and laid out the migration plans to Chat.

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Google announced that its Hangouts service is going away a long time ago, and it’s now truly dead. Back in July, the Hangouts app for both Android and iOS was removed, while Hangouts for the web ...

Google recently announced that it will officially kill Hangouts this fall. Many users already switched from Hangouts, as Google first announced that the service is going away back in 2020. That being ...

Google has laid Hangouts to rest, a couple of years after it first announced that it was going to push people to use Chat, its Slack-like app, instead. After allowing users to move to Chat on their ...

Google is officially urging Hangouts holdouts to migrate over to the new messaging suite, called Chat. Starting today, if you’re still using Hangouts on your mobile device, you’ll see an in-app screen ...

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