![]() ![]() Groups and teams can share ideas, work on documents, and manage files and tasks, all from a single location. Google Chat also includes Spaces, a dedicated place for topic-based collaboration. For example, users can edit Docs, Slides or Sheets with side-by-side editing, making it easier to collaborate while continuing the conversation. "Moving to Google Chat opens up new and better ways to connect and collaborate. ![]() According to the tech giant, users still on the Hangouts mobile app "will see a prompt" to move to Google Chat. To recall, earlier in June, Google announced it was shutting its messaging app Hangouts before it officially pulls the plug on Google Hangouts in November. Rather, you'll have until September 30, 2021, to manually use Google Takeout to export text messages from Hangouts.Also read: Google Hangouts Shutting Later This Year, Company Starts Moving Users To Google Chat If you wait until after the deadline passes, then you won't be able to seamlessly transfer your SMS/MMS history to Messages. If you haven't yet started the process of syncing all of your conversations and voicemails with Messages, now is the time to do so. Starting in March of 2021, Fi users will no longer be able to use the Hangouts app to send or receive text messages or make or receive voice calls and voicemail. ![]() For subscribers of Fi, Google's MVNO, Google plans to have them migrate to the company's Messages app which supports SMS/MMS and has a web client through which you can send texts, check your voicemail, and make voice calls. While the Messages app has already brought full Fi integration, Google has decided to give Fi users more time to migrate to Messages by delaying when Hangouts will lose key features (via 9to5Google). That transition is slowly underway, with Chat already gaining support for showing individual Hangouts conversations. For most users, Google plans to have them migrate to the company's new platform called Google Chat. Update 1: Hangouts Shutdown Delayed for Google Fi usersīack in October, Google finally laid out its roadmap for when it planned to shut down Hangouts. By November of this year, Google will update the group video calling experience in Hangouts with Meet. in 2021, it’s removing the call phones features in Hangouts. Meanwhile, Google said in order to comply with new regulations being introduced in the EU and U.S. Voice support in Hangouts will then be removed early next year. Later this month, Hangouts Voice users will be directed to the Voice app for text messaging and calling going forward. ![]() Google is also changing some things related to telecommunications and Hangouts with Google Voice. Google said Fi users will be able to make voice calls and check voicemail from Messages for web, migrate their existing Hangouts conversations, and manage conversations from Messages across devices. Google will instead make Messages its main platform for Fi, so it’s adding some new features in the next few weeks. That includes removing Fi support in Hangouts early next year. Because Hangouts will make way for Chat, that means Google will need to make changes to Hangouts for Google Fi users. ![]()
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