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Google Hangouts will migrate to Google Chat

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:05 am
by samiaseo75
While the new app won't be able to completely replace Hangouts , Google Chat allows you to make mentions, use its own desktop app, customize notification sounds, customize dark mode, and use emojis or GIFs. In June, Google Chat Product Manager Ravi Kanneganti wrote in an official blog post: “As we take this final step to bring remaining Hangouts users to Chat, we hope users appreciate our continued investment in making Chat a powerful place to create and collaborate.”

This is how the transition went: Users lost access to mexico phone number data the Hangouts mobile app, but could switch to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. Users were no longer able to access the Hangouts Chrome extension on the web. Hangouts on the web continued to be available, including users' histories and conversations. Access to Hangouts on the web was available until November 1, 2022. After that, users were redirected to Chat on the web and could continue to use Google Takeout to download their data until January 1, 2023.

Musk now says account verification will be available to Twitter Blue subscribers for “just” $8 a month. “Twitter’s current lords and peasants system of seeing who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people!” the Tesla CEO tweeted.