Google is in the process of shutting down Hangouts, its classic cross-platform instant messaging app. The company last week announced that the app will cease to exist this fall. Ahead of that, it has ...

Starting today, the search giant will start nudging users on Hangouts to migrate to Google Chat. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is reporting on AI, satellites, ...

You can change your status on Google Hangouts in moments, using either the desktop website or the mobile app.

In the coming weeks, Google Chat will replace classic Hangouts for Workspace customers. As part of this, Google said it would disable the old Hangouts mobile apps, and that looks to be underway with ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

The long, agonizing death of Google Hangouts has finally come to an end. After announcing that its popular chat platform would shut down in 2018, Google has been urging users to switch to Google Chat.

At the end of last month, Google delisted its classic Hangouts app from iOS and Android app stores. Surprisingly, the soon to be retired Hangouts app has returned to the iOS App Store, but only if you ...

It's easy to block someone on Google Hangouts if you don't want them to contact you. Here's how to do it on desktop or mobile ...

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 announced that starting today, people who are still using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app prompt asking them to move to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. The company says the new prompt ...

Google’s Classic Hangouts instant messaging service will be officially sunsetting within a month. Business and enterprise users will all see the service leave on or before March 22, 2022. The ...