Hangouts for Android and iOS has already stopped working

As introduced every week in the past, Google is now within the strategy of shutting down traditional Hangouts free of charge customers. Many customers are discovering that they will not entry Hangouts for Android and iOS as we speak.

The primary stage of this shutdown impacts the previous Hangouts cell apps that haven’t seen any main characteristic additions in a number of years and have been largely unavailable for brand spanking new Google Play or App Retailer downloads in latest months.

Launching Hangouts reveals an “It’s time for Chat in Gmail” immediate that acts as a pressured improve on Android and iOS to make use of the devoted Google Chat apps or the Gmail tab. When you see this display, you may not entry traditional Hangouts on cell.

This isn’t the most important disruption to continued utilization because the overwhelming majority of messages have been migrated over to Chat. That stated:

…some conversations or parts of conversations gained’t robotically migrate from Hangouts to Chat. We’ll e mail impacted customers with extra data round September 2022

We’ve encountered this immediate on a number of gadgets and Google accounts worldwide as we speak. Most individuals late final week have been nonetheless in a position to see conversations and ship new messages, however that’s not the case.

Along with Android and iOS, Google is equally disabling the Hangouts Chrome desktop extension, whereas this month will see traditional Hangouts cease working in net Gmail’s sidebar. Customers are prompted to make use of Chat in Gmail.com or the PWA (Progressive Net App) at chat.google.com.

You’ll nonetheless have the ability to use hangouts.google.com till no less than October, however that can cease working afterward, and what’s left of traditional Hangouts would be the capability to obtain information/historical past by way of Google Takeout.

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