Google has announced that Hangouts on the web will be upgraded to Google Chat as the final step in completely replacing Google Hangouts. The transition will begin from November 1. The Hangouts on the web and conversations on the platform will remain accessible in Hangouts until November 1, 2022.
If the user deletes conversations from Google Hangouts, the corresponding content in Google Chat may also get deleted. Users can use Google Takeout to easily download the data before January 1, 2023 when Hangouts data will be deleted.
Google says that Google Chat “offers closer integration with other Google Workspace products as well as modern features” and that’s why it is migrating to Chat. The modern features on Google Chat include GIF picker and Spaces, which is a dedicated place for topic-based collaboration.
Google Hangouts has already been discontinued and the company delisted the Hangouts app from the Google Play store as well as Apple’s App Store in a move to prevent new users from downloading the discontinued chat app on iOS and Android devices.
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