Google is in the process of shutting down Hangouts, its classic cross-platform instant messaging app. The company last week announced that the app will cease to exist this fall. Ahead of that, it has ...

It’s been nearly an entire year since we started talking about how Google Hangouts was officially set to disappear. Since then, it seems like we’ve been repeating the same thing every few months, only ...

In the coming weeks, Google Chat will replace classic Hangouts for Workspace customers. As part of this, Google said it would disable the old Hangouts mobile apps, and that looks to be underway with ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Now, teens can join and create Hangouts from the Google+ mobile app, and users can join Hangouts on Air from their handset. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered ...

At the end of last month, Google delisted its classic Hangouts app from iOS and Android app stores. Surprisingly, the soon to be retired Hangouts app has returned to the iOS App Store, but only if you ...

The long, agonizing death of Google Hangouts has finally come to an end. After announcing that its popular chat platform would shut down in 2018, Google has been urging users to switch to Google Chat.

It has been quite some time since Google announced the demise of Google Hangouts. The app is still around, though, even though it probably won’t linger around for long. The company already released a ...

Google has announced that starting today, people who are still using Hangouts on mobile will see an in-app prompt asking them to move to Chat in Gmail or the Chat app. The company says the new prompt ...

You can change your status on Google Hangouts using both the desktop website and the mobile app. On the desktop site, you'll need to head to your settings page to change your Hangouts status. In the ...