At the beginning of this year, all users of the Google Workspace office suite were moved to the Google Chat communication service. Now the American technology giant has announced that classic Hangouts will stop working in October and has also outlined plans to transition to Chat. Google has already been making it clear since 2019 that classic Hangouts will be replaced by the Google Chat service. He was the first to move business customers to the service. This process took quite a long time and was completed only in the last few weeks.
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Now the company is turning its attention to free, personal accounts that still have access to classic Hangouts. Starting Monday, users of the old Hangouts mobile app are prompted to use Chat in the Gmail app or in the service's standalone clients (for Android a iOS). After receiving the message "It's time for Chat in Gmail" ("It's time for Chat in Gmail"), the application stops working. Google says that "conversations are automatically migrated" for most users, but adds in the same breath that "some conversations or parts of them will not automatically migrate from Hangouts to Chat," saying that it will send an email to affected users around September with more informacemy.
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In July, those using classic Hangouts will be "upgrading to Chat in Gmail" through the sidebar of Gmail on the web. People will still be able to use the hangouts.google.com client until the classic version stops working, with availability planned until at least October of this year. Before that happens, users will be notified a month in advance and redirected to chat.google.com.
