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New Google Chat Features Includes Shortcuts, Mentions, and New Icon

Tim November 9, 2023 10

Google is shipping out a Chat update, one that changes up a few things, intros a new feature, and also includes a new icon that puts it more in line with Google's suite of other applications. When using Chat, users can now take advantage of a Shortcuts panel,...

A Final Goodbye to Google Hangouts

Kellen November 1, 2022 10

This has been said a number of times over the years now, so I get that you may be like, "Huh?" but Google Hangouts is supposed to officially begin its final stages of shutdown today. November 1 has been the marked day for all of the final Hangouts locations to...

Google Chat Rolls Out Inline Threading to Conversations

Kellen October 18, 2022 6

Because the conversations you may have in Google Chat can become quite complex, assuming you use it as a work tool, Google is adding a feature I can imagine was highly requested. Inline threading is here for those times where a side conversation might be...

Google Tells Remaining Hangouts Users That It’s Time for Chat

Kellen June 28, 2022 7

We've been talking about the end of Hangouts for at least a couple of years now, thanks to Google confirming that Google Chat would eventually replace it and that they'd one day force you to use it. After several steps have cleared for Google to push its...

Poll: Are You Using Google Chat?

Kellen May 23, 2022 74

Leaving Google Hangouts for another messaging platform was a once-unimaginable idea. My entire family (and most friends) had all bought into Google's most important messaging app over the years because it was simple to use through a Google account and worked...

Google Hangouts has Left the Play Store

Kellen April 1, 2022 22

Google Hangouts has had the slowest death of all time. We first started talking about its demise back in 2020, shortly after Google released Chat and Meet. At that time, we believed that Hangouts might disappear from our phones and the Play Store within that...

Google Hangouts Gets an End Date for Workspace Users

Kellen February 22, 2022 3

After years of talking about the end times, Google made it official today: Hangouts will be turned off and unavailable for Google Workspace customers next month. For those who haven't yet transitioned over to Google Chat, Google is about to force you onto it....

The Gmail You Use for Work is Getting a Refresh Thanks to Chat and Meet

Kellen February 1, 2022 1

Google is continuing to evolve Gmail as we know it, especially for those who use it within a Workspace account, which used to be GSuite and is the version of Gmail used by work professionals. In a note posted yesterday, Google laid out upcoming plans to...