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The stock SMS app is dead on Android. Long live SMS in Google Hangouts (free)! This chat app was born when Google Hangouts consumed Google Talk, and now it's gobbled up SMS and Google Voice as well.

Google Hangouts has a ticking clock hanging over its head and is set to shut down for good. Fortunately, you can move your Google Hangouts data by downloading it and keeping it safe locally. This ...

Google previously announced that its most popular messaging app, Google Hangouts, would be shutting down. In a post today on the GSuite Updates blog, Google detailed what the Hangouts shutdown will ...

One of the conveniences of modern technology is staying connected to friends and loved ones who are thousands of miles away. While a simple video chat makes this connection possible, there may be more ...

Hangouts holdouts will have to finally say goodbye to Google's most resilient chat app later this year. On Monday, the company announced it would start migrating consumer Hangouts users to Chat before ...

Google has recently started shutting down the main functions of its Hangouts service, namely its messaging and voice calling features. If you’ve recently noticed that these features are no longer ...

Google is, once again, changing up its messaging app strategy. The company plans to make Chat, its Slack-like app, free for everyone in 2021, when it will push people currently using Hangouts to use ...

Users who want to keep a copy of their Hangouts data are encouraged to use Google Takeout to download this data before the service is shut in November. Google is beginning to phase out Google Hangouts ...

Update 1 (01/15/2021 @ 03:44 PM ET): Google Fi users will have more time to migrate from Hangouts to Google Messages. Click here for more information. The article as published on October 15, 2020, is ...

Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already knew ...