October 15, 2020 08:02 pm
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Google is beginning the forced migration from Hangouts to Chat next year
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge
Google will officially transition users from Google Hangouts to Google Chat starting next year. As part of the change, Chat, a messaging service previously only available to customers who pay for Google Workspace (the recent rebranding of G Suite), will become a free service that’s available inside of Gmail and in a standalone app. And some Hangouts features will be going away ahead of its disappearance.
The transition from Hangouts to Chat will begin sometime in the first half of 2021, when Google will offer tools to help automatically bring your Hangouts conversations, contacts, and chat history to Chat, according to a blog post. It’s unclear what steps will be required for that migration, but Google says it will share guidance at some...
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