Google app disappears: company announces end date
Created: 06/09/2022, 15:48
By: Anna Lorenz
Google offers a number of apps, including a messenger service.
After it has already been deleted from the Play Store, the service will disappear completely from all smartphones from November.
Mountain View – WhatsApp and Instagram are popular messenger services, but Google also provides an app that can be used to exchange ideas online.
It's now called Google Chat.
But the application's predecessor, Google Hangouts, is still usable.
However, that will change shortly, because the Google service will be permanently discontinued.
Google: Messenger service finally says “Adios”: The Hangouts service will finally disappear from November
As Google announced in its
Workspace Updates Blog
, from November 1, 2022, all users who want to access the Hangouts service in their web browser will be redirected to Google Chat.
So far, this procedure has already existed for app use on smartphones and tablets, as well as in the Chrome extension and the Gmail sidebar.
In two months, however, there will no longer be any way to the chat room.
Users of the Google service will be notified again by email before Hangouts is shut down.
The purpose of this is also that those affected save any data.
It is possible to move to Google Chats in such a way that content from Hangouts is moved directly to the new chat room.
In individual cases, however, Google data export must also be used.
Alongside this innovation, the Google Duo tool is also integrated into Google Meet, making the latter application the only tool for video calls.
(askl)