Google Chat is officially the dominant chat app on the Google Workspaces platform. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo Google is officially urging Hangouts holdouts to migrate over to the new messaging ...

Google is rolling out upgraded features and an improved experience to some of its biggest web apps—including Gmail and Google Docs—while at the same time also transforming the apps that consumers use ...

The free versions of Google Hangouts will begin to transition to Chat today. You can still use some versions of Hangouts until October 2022. By the end of this year ...

Hangouts holdouts will have to finally say goodbye to Google’s most resilient chat app later this year. On Monday, the company announced it would start migrating consumer Hangouts users to Chat before ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Google has announced it will shut down its Hangouts messaging service in November and will today start telling users of the mobile app to move to Google Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. It's been almost ...

Google Hangouts was one of Google’s best chat apps. It boasted a bunch of useful and, for its time, innovative features that still exist in other apps today. Here’s a fun fact: when Android Authority ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jon Porter is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. If you’re a Google Workspace user, the classic ...

When Hangouts launched in May 2013, product manager Nikhyl Singhal said that Google Voice integration was coming “soon.” The Web giant has taken its time, but sixteen months later, it’s finally ...