Google Hangouts is shutting down this fall

Hangouts holdouts should lastly say goodbye to Google’s most resilient chat app later this year. On Monday, the company it might begin migrating shopper Hangouts customers to Chat earlier than the previous is not accessible after November 2022. If you continue to use Hangouts on cellular, you’ll see a immediate beginning at present to maneuver to both the standalone Chat app or the Chat expertise in Gmail. “Hangouts has been replaced by Google Chat,” the company declares within the notification.

Over on Gmail, Google gained’t start prodding Hangouts customers to modify over till July. The will stay accessible till November, and the company says customers may have “at least” one month of warning earlier than the platform’s webpage begins robotically redirecting to the Chat web site as an alternative. If you’re nonetheless actively utilizing Hangouts, Google guarantees your conversations will robotically switch to its newer app. That stated, you can too use the company’s to obtain a replica of your information.

Google has been steadily phasing out the Hangouts model in favor of its newer messaging companies for a while now, so it’s not stunning the company has lastly determined to sundown the platform. And whereas it by no means loved the recognition of some on the spot messaging apps, Hangouts had its religious followers.