Why is my Google+ app now called Google Currents

It's not you, it's Google. Rather Google+, the failed social network and content platform that has given its last blow. Google thus closes this experiment that, after all the media noise that it has raised, closes. Or rather, makes room for something new And that is precisely what happened to your application.

On the occasion of the dismantling of Google+, the company has launched two updates on the Google+ applications that exist in the Google Play Store and App Store.Not to improve or delete them, but to change them to Google Currents, as you may have already noticed. A change that erases the traces of Google+ and everything that was a social experiment by Google.

What happened to the social network

Since 2018, Google was clear that Google+ would end up closing the blinds This was stated at the time, with a phased dismantling plan that It would end everything we knew. The profiles, the circles, the contents... It was from April 2019 when the steps were more resounding and those profiles finally disappeared. However, and as explained in The Verge, some privacy problems related to this dismantling accelerated the steps of the company.

At that time it was also when Currents was released, an application and service that was launched in beta or test format.Well, today is the day of the definitive change. Google Currents is coming to the Google Play Store and App Store to take its place from Google+ apps.

And what is Google Currents

Google Currents is a communication and organization platform for businesses. It is intended for the G Suite or Google Business Tools Platform. And it consists of a kind of chat where you can communicate with coworkers, share documents, discuss ideas, etc. Something like Google's version of the Slack platform, well known in these times of teleworking. Of course, it should not be confused with Google Currents from 2013, which functioned as a mere news aggregator and which ended up being absorbed by Google Play Newsstand.

So, if you are one of the few who have endured using Google+ or with the application downloaded to your mobile, you will be surprised by the change.Something unlikely, on the other hand. After all, the social network already generated an echo even in its best moments. And it is that he neither won nor convinced in his time. Now make way for more useful tools