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You Can Now Send Voice Messages in Google Chat

Tim March 26, 2024 11

Google announced today that it is bringing a brand new feature to Google Chat users starting today: voice messages. Instead of having to type out your messages all of the time, now you can use your beautiful voice to speak to your contacts. The company notes...

Google Chat Gets a Major Navigation UI Change in New Update

Kellen November 29, 2023 11

Google Chat will see a noteworthy update over the coming days that brings a new navigation setup. This big UI change is a new style from Google, although it may just be a new idea for a complex app with so many parts. In a short blog post, Google explains that...

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,...

7 New Features Coming Soon to Google Chat

Kellen June 30, 2023 12

Google Chat is still out there doing its messaging thing, even as Google puts most of its energy into pushing RCS and Messages and there are countless other messaging apps you could use. Hangouts users who made the switch over to Chat do exist and have kept...

Google Chat Gets Material Design 3 UI Update

Tim April 13, 2023 8

Google announced a refreshed Google Chat on desktop this week, based on Material Design 3. Inside, users will find an updated font, nice colors, a rearranged layout, sizing changes for panels within the UI, and more. Specifics include changes to the top app...

Android’s New Photo Picker Magically Starts Working With a Bunch of Apps

Kellen December 16, 2022 9

The new Photo Picker that was first introduced with Android 13 as a more-secure and (hopefully) more consistent way to choose media you share within apps, is rolling out more widely this week. A change on the back-end from Google has apparently made the new...

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...