

There will be a one month heads-up before that occurs and users are redirected to. People will still be able to use the client until classic Hangouts stops working, with availability planned for at least until October 2022. In July, those using classic Hangouts via web Gmail’s sidebar “will be upgraded to Chat in Gmail.” We will email impacted users with more information around September 2022Īt the same time, those using the Hangouts Chrome extension are directed to Chat on the web and/or install the Progressive Web App. …some conversations or portions of conversations won’t automatically migrate from Hangouts to Chat. The company says “conversations are automatically migrated” for most people. Upon receiving this “It’s time for Chat in Gmail” message, the classic Hangouts app will stop working.

Starting today, people using the old Hangouts mobile applications will be prompted by an upgrade screen to use Chat in the Gmail app or the standalone Chat clients ( Android and iOS). Google is now turning its attention to free, personal accounts that still have access to classic Hangouts. Enterprise customers were the first to be switched over in a process that took some time to start and did not complete until recent weeks. Since 2019, Google - as we exclusively reported - has been telegraphing that classic Hangouts will be replaced by Google Chat. Google announced today that classic Hangouts is going away for free users in October and laid out the migration plans to Chat. All Workspace customers were migrated to Google Chat earlier this year.
