Google has shut down Hangouts for good

One of the oldest messaging applications, Google Hangouts, was shut down forever yesterday and replaced by the Google Chat application.

Google Hangouts is a messaging app for sending text and voice messages and sharing video and images that users could access through the Gmail app. But it was early this year that Google announced that it wants to replace Hangouts with another messaging application called Google Chat, which looks similar to a service like Slack. Hangouts reaching the end of the line also means that users can no longer access this service through the web. are not. Of course, the application related to this service was unavailable for Android and iOS users in July this year, but now we see that the web service is no longer active.

Hangouts experienced a gradual death. It was in 2021 that Google gave users the possibility to migrate to the Chat application. In June 2022, this American company announced that it would require users of this service in Gmail or in the application itself to use the Chat service.

Although many messages and contacts will be automatically transferred from Hangouts to Chat, not all data will be transferred to this new messenger. According to Google, users need to download the Takeout application and use it to copy their data in order to copy and enter their data in the new service. There is still time to do this until January 2023.

Chat may not be able to replace Hangouts for some users, but it still has a series of additional features for group conversations and allows users to collaborate from It provides features such as Spaces or group editing of Word documents, slides, sheets, etc. The possibility of sending gifs and mentioning members using @ is also available in the new Google messenger application.

Google has already said that this application is a better way to communicate between different people. In June, Ravi Kanganti, the app's product manager, announced that they are working to bring the rest of Hangouts users to Chat, and that they appreciate users helping make the app a place to connect, create, and collaborate. announced.

Source: TechCrunch