
The date of April 2021 was when Google Chat indeed became free, as an “Early Access” service available to users who prefer to make use of rather than Hangouts. This new standard makes it more difficult for multi-chat applications such as Pidgin or Adium to work with Google Hangouts. In the month of May, Google Hangouts faced criticism from the Electronic Frontier Foundation as they believed it was Google is “moving towards the wrong way” in reducing its support of the standard protocol open to all XMPP. For Hangouts for consumers, which been on life support for a lengthy time, this transfer could speed up its decline. You can move your text message information from Hangouts to Messages up to September 30th, 2021. Google Apps customers are just one click away from connecting with colleagues in the office or around the world via video calls in person. Google Hangouts make it simple for a group of individuals to connect and collaborate without having to set up video equipment for conferences. If you’d like to receive your texts via Messages you can follow the steps under “Transfer your Hangouts messages to Messages from Google.” If you’ve used Hangouts before using Google Voice you’ll see your text messages on Google Voice.

We’ll help you migrate your Hangouts conversations together with the history of your contacts and save them.

Messages are delivered directly to the Google Hangouts account where they are able to respond. At the end of this time, the Hangouts text messages will be removed from Hangouts.

You can also download your Hangouts information through the account on your Google Account until September 30, 2021. Google Hangouts is being discontinued as a result of which certain features are no longer available and are being moved into Google Meet and Google Chat. The link to a Google Hangouts call can be shared with anyone you wish to be added to the call. Find the person in the film strip at the lower part side of the Hangouts window Select the arrow and choose Mute from in the options.
