{"id":8444,"date":"2021-08-09T18:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/google-signing-out-free-hangouts-accounts-ahead-of-migration-to-google-chat\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:03:23","slug":"google-signing-out-free-hangouts-accounts-ahead-of-migration-to-google-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/google-signing-out-free-hangouts-accounts-ahead-of-migration-to-google-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Signing Out Free Hangouts Accounts Ahead of Migration to Google Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is signing out Hangouts users from their accounts as part of the proposed migration to the free Google Chat app. This officially marks the end of Google Hangouts as a chat service, although enterprise customers have until the end of 2021 to make the switch.<br \/>\nAs noted by 9to5Google (via XDA), users opening the Hangouts app on their Android or iOS will be automatically signed out. A banner that reads \u201c\u200b\u200bHangouts is being replaced by Google Chat\u201d also appears on top of the screen. This is accompanied by a \u201cSwitch to Chat in Gmail\u201d option. Tapping this button signs the user out and takes them to the chat experience within the Gmail app.<br \/>\nGoogle notes that previous Hangouts conversations from June 2020 will appear after the migration is complete. \u201cYour conversations from the last year are already in Chat, and older conversations will be available later,\u201d the company said. While notifications will cease after signing out, the app can still be accessed by simply re-adding the account.<br \/>\nEnterprise users of Hangouts have until later this year to make the switch<br \/>\nThe aforementioned banner also appears on the web version of Hangouts. The \u201cOpen Chat\u201d key on the site redirects users to the Google Chat web app. As noted previously, the mandatory upgrade to Chat for enterprise customers will be implemented later this year. Google said that it would \u201cfully replace classic Hangouts with Chat\u201d by then.<br \/>\nGoogle hasn\u2019t offered a precise date for the closure of free accounts currently using Hangouts. But going by the \u2018late 2021\u2019 timeline, it may likely be sometime in December.<br \/>\nAs part of the Hangouts app\u2019s slow crawl to death, Google has been making some big changes since last year. Google started migrating conversations from classic Hangouts to Google Chats in August 2020. Additionally, Hangouts users started seeing new conversations on the Chats app, which was an indicator of things to come.<br \/>\nIn April this year, the classic Hangouts lost support for Google Voice and Google Fi. This meant that users had to use Google Voice for calls, text messaging, and voicemails going forward. Thankfully, the process for migration was pretty seamless as existing conversations appeared on Voice, and the user\u2019s phone number was carried over as well.<\/p>\n<p>The post Google Signing Out Free Hangouts Accounts Ahead of Migration to Google Chat appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Google-Hangouts-AH-NS-05-600x338-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is signing out Hangouts users from their accounts as part of the proposed migration to the free Google Chat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":8445,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}