▶ Goodbye Hangouts: what will happen to this Google chat app

Google Hangouts was, until now, Google's chat tool. At first, it was shown as something like an alternative to WhatsApp, but the reality is that it had never really competed with the all-powerful Meta app, and its use was almost limited to professional environments. But if you are one of those who do use it, you will have to find an alternative. And it is that, although Google had already warned that this tool had little life left, now we have the exact date on which we will stop being able to use it.

November, the date of goodbye to Hangouts

If you're a Hangouts user, the date you'll stop using this app is next month of November But for you to Don't have to make the change from one day to the next, Google will begin next July to appeal to its users to switch to Chat, the new application that will have favorite functions. Thus, you will have several months ahead before having to stop using it permanently.

Since last February, Google already began to migrate users who used Hangouts from the Workspace. The novelty now is that private users will also be trying to leave the tool. There will be several months in which this transition will take place, but when the month of November arrives, the popular Google chat application will have disappeared for good.But you can rest easy because Google ensures that they will notify you with at least a month's margin to make the change.

What about my Hangouts conversations?

As we have said, Google is not going to leave us without a chat tool, it is simply going to encourage a move from Hangouts to Chat.

As soon as you've moved to the latter, your Hangouts conversations will appear there automatically So, if you're If you have decided to continue using Chat, you do not need to do anything, since all the messages you had you will continue to have.

However, Google also allows you to back up all your Hangouts chats using the service Takeout So Therefore, if you're not sure you want to continue using Chats but you also don't want to lose all the conversations you had in Google chat, you always have at your disposal the possibility of downloading a copy of your chats to have it handy if you need it.

But, as we have mentioned, if you are going to continue using Chat this will not be necessary and your conversations will be passed automatically. Google's idea is to make the transition as comfortable as possible, so that switching from one application to another is not too annoying.

What can we expect from Google Chat

Google Chat is an application that is more designed for professional environments than for chatting with our friends. But the reality is that its operation is very similar to that of any messaging application. Thus, it has the possibility of creating group chats to do teamwork or send direct messages so that we can have a slightly more personal conversation.

One of the strengths of this application is that it allows you to easily send content created with the Google office suiteThe ease of sharing documents in Docs or a table in Sheets makes it ideal for group work. And its search engine is also quite remarkable, with which we can find conversations and content that we have shared quite easily. For the professional world, another very interesting point is that you can coordinate the calendars of all users and schedule meetings at a time when everyone is available.