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If you are a fan of Google Hangouts and you really need it, then the good thing about Samsung and Android phones is that you can always sideload the app from trusted third-party sources. Google Hangouts is a communication tool similar to Skype or WhatsApp. Moreover, those who already have the app installed on their phone might still be able to see the app listed on the Play Store. In 2013, Google developed their own messaging app. What’s new: - The Chat for Google extension is now Hangouts. Mobile operator and ISP charges may apply. Notes: - Unlike the Chat for Google extension, Hangouts does not support invisible status. Choose from over 850 emoji to express what’s on your mind. It seems like Google is currently in the process of shutting down the app everywhere. View collections of photos shared from each of your Hangouts.
This means that you can no longer install or update the Google Hangouts app on your Samsung Galaxy phone either.įolks at 9To5Google were the first to spot the app store change that happened sometime earlier today. In some regions, owners of Samsung and other Android devices are still seeing the Hangouts app listed on the Play Store. Well, it seems like the company has finally done the inevitable as Google delists the Hangout app from both the Android and iOS stores. As usual, there's a client built into, and there's even a client built into the Gmail app , which can lead to the awkward situation of your Chat messages arriving in two apps.For many years we are hearing and reading that Google is going to kill the Hangouts app. Instead of the iOS and Android versions of Hangouts, you'll be pushed to the Google Chat apps, which both have better interfaces. On desktop, instead of or the Hangouts Chrome extension, there's, which is also an installable progressive web app.
Starting today, most Google Hangouts clients will start pushing users to Google Chat. While most follow-ups to Google Hangouts have been severely lacking in comparable features, Google Chat is a decent upgrade to Google Hangouts, so there are Google Chat options for all the Hangouts clients you may have been using. After several delays, Workspace customers (the paid business version of Google apps) finally had Hangouts removed in March 2022, but regular consumers can still switch between Google Chat and Hangouts. Google announced in 2018 that Hangouts would eventually be shut down. The service fell out of favor with Google's legendarily fickle messaging strategy in 2016 with the launch of Google Allo. As Android's default messaging service, Hangouts amassed 5 billion downloads, and at one point, it even handled Android SMS duties, just like Apple's iMessage.
The service launched in 2013 as an in-place upgrade to Google Talk. Further Reading A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging appsThe shutdown of Hangouts has been a long time coming.