{"id":16163,"date":"2022-02-23T02:36:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T02:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/google-hangouts-gets-an-end-date-for-workspace-users\/"},"modified":"2022-02-23T02:36:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T02:36:58","slug":"google-hangouts-gets-an-end-date-for-workspace-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/google-hangouts-gets-an-end-date-for-workspace-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Hangouts Gets an End Date for Workspace Users"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After years of talking about the end times, Google made it official today: Hangouts will be turned off and unavailable for Google Workspace customers next month. For those who haven\u2019t yet transitioned over to Google Chat, Google is about to force you onto it.<\/p>\n

The official switch date is March 22, which Google announced<\/a> today on its Workspace blog. Google laid out the situations that could impact some folks who have not yet moved over to Chat.<\/p>\n

Once March 22 rolls around, Google is going to turn on the \u201cChat preferred\u201d setting in Workspace admin panels. That move makes Google Chat the default messaging application, replacing Hangouts. That means if you try to find Hangouts in Gmail or in mobile apps, they\u2019ll either redirect or tell you to find your conversations in Google Chat. Google has confirmed that hangouts.google.com<\/em> will still work, at least for now.<\/p>\n

The remaining folks not yet on \u201cChat preferred\u201d are those running options for \u201cChat and classic Hangouts\u201d and \u201cClassic Hangouts only.\u201d Starting next month and throughout a three-week period, Google will get rid of those options, again, to put everyone on Chat.<\/p>\n

If your organization has been allowing both Hangouts and Chat, it\u2019s time to make sure everything has migrated over to Chat. It should have happened automatically, as far as I know, but you may want to double check by opening Chat before March 22.<\/p>\n

For those freaking out that Hangouts will no longer work with your personal Gmail account, understand that this change is strictly about Workspace accounts. Hangouts for personal accounts is basically dead already<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n