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Install the Google Voice app to continue making and receiving calls with your Google Voice number.įigure A People with Gmail and non-organizational Google accounts can continue to use classic Hangouts, as shown here. Google Voice (on Android, iOS and the web), provides plenty of calling capabilities, along with spam filtering, voicemail transcription, call screening and more. Switch from Google Hangouts to Google Voice for phone calls If you use Messages on Android, you also may access Messages for the web. RCS is intended to replace SMS over the long term. Messages not only supports SMS and MMS texting, but also the newer Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol. Switch to Messages for SMS communications on Android. Switch from Google Hangouts to Messages for SMS Anyone with a Google account may use Meet. It replaces the video meeting features once found in Hangouts. Google Meet, which is available for Android, iOS and the web, gives you a highly capable video conferencing tool. SEE: Google Sheets: Tips and tricks (TechRepublic download) Switch from Google Hangouts to Google Meet for video conferencing Take the following steps to maintain access to similar sets of features, albeit now distributed across several apps.

If you still use Hangouts ( Figure A), you’ll need to take action to retain access to key features as they’re gradually moved out of the app.
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For people in organizations–meaning anyone who used Hangouts with a Google Workspace account–the company intends to entirely replace Hangouts with other apps by the end of 2021. Hangouts, once Google’s do-everything communication app, has gotten increasingly focused over time as the company has transitioned key features to other apps. The four apps you need to replace features found in classic Hangouts: Meet, Messages, Voice and Chat. Google Meet, the company's primary video service for corporate users, saw over 100 million daily meeting participants at its peak which was an increase of about 30x user growth.Classic Hangouts to Google Chat transition: What users need to know Google's video services saw a major uptick in users - both for corporate and personal reasons - amid the pandemic as lockdown protocols and virtual work became commonplace for many.
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The service is expected to run through November before it's gone for good and all users are auto-directed to Chat.įor Hangout loyalists who are worried about their conversation logs and data once they're forced to make the switch over, Google is allowing users to use Google Takeout (its data migration service) to download data for personal records. Those using Hangouts on Google's mobile app will be prompted to switch over to Chat as early as today, while those using the service on a web browser or desktop won't be prompted to make to switch until next month. Google maintains that Chat will offer users a more comprehensive and interactive experience than the Hangouts interface was able to provide, such as text editing options, mentions to tag other users, and even the use of extensive emojis and GIFs.
