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Google Hangouts has positioned itself as a prominent communication tool that facilitates messaging, voice calls, and video chats, all under one roof. Developed by the tech giant Google in 2013, this ...

For the last few weeks, whenever I launch Brave, my primary Web browser, I’ve been getting a dialog from Google Hangouts, alerting me that Google has replaced Hangouts with Google Chat. This isn’t ...

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 ...

November 1, 2022, is the last day Google Hangouts is accessible from the web, and users are urged to complete the transition to Google Chat. Hangouts has been slowly deprecated over the past year as ...

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 ...

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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 shut down Hangouts for Workspace in February, but that’s not enough for the search giant: it’s now killing the mobile Hangouts app as well. In a recent blogpost, the tech behemoth announced ...

Google has confirmed when it will shutter Hangouts. The popular messaging app that replaced GTalk will be permanently shut down in November 2022. Anyone who is still hanging out at Hangouts will be ...

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.