RIP Google Hangouts | Long Live Google Chat! Google Hangouts All Set To Retire, Permanently..

With the newer ‘Google Chat’, Google replaced the Hangouts app for Workspace users back in the month of February.

The company is planning to move all the current users of the platform to Google Chat and is now completely set to shut down the older Hangouts later this year.

Hangouts Will Be Taken Down in November 2022

It will be in November 2022 that the Hangouts will be taken down, as per Google. Users on desktop and mobile will shall be prompted to migrate the chat.

The chat data from the Hangouts platform will automatically be available on Google Chat. Users shall also have the option to download all their data before the platform is dissolved.

Google said in the post that the people who are using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app screen which shall prompt them to move to Chat on the web or install the Chat web app. Starting July, people who use Hangouts in Gmail on the web will be upgraded to Chat in Gmail.

There will be an in-product notice at least a month before Hangouts web is taken down. Post this, the visitors shall be automatically redirected to Google Chat web.

More About Hangouts

Introduced in 2013, Hangouts was the planned successor to GChat (not to be confused with the newer Google Chat).

The original GChat, or as some people know it, Google Talk, was shut down earlier this month, and after Hangouts suffers a similar fate later this year, it seems that the new Google Chat will be Google’s latest attempt at bringing a seamlessly integrated instant messaging service across devices.