{"id":467165,"date":"2022-11-02T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=467165"},"modified":"2022-11-02T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:38:08","slug":"goodbye-google-hangouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/467165-goodbye-google-hangouts.html","title":{"rendered":"Google shuts down Hangouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google has shut down Hangouts<\/a><\/strong>, replacing the text, video, and voice chat app with Google Chat \u2014 an instant messaging app aimed at businesses.<\/p>\n

Attempting to access Hangouts will redirect users to the Google Chat web app, but the tech giant said users can download their Hangouts data via Takeout until 1 January 2023.<\/p>\n

“Google Hangouts is being upgraded to Google Chat at the end of 2022 for those who haven’t already upgraded,” the company said on its support pages.<\/p>\n

“Some people may have already moved to Google Chat and may no longer be able to use Google Hangouts on some platforms.”<\/p>\n

Google said some conversations or parts of conversations wouldn’t automatically migrate from Hangouts to Chat and that Hangouts data would be deleted on 1 January 2023.<\/p>\n

However, the tech giant provided steps on how to download a copy of the data using Google Takeout:<\/p>\n

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  1. Access Google Takeout<\/a><\/strong> and sign in using the account you used for Hangouts.<\/li>\n
  2. Select Hangouts and deselect the other options in the available applications list.<\/li>\n
  3. Click on “Next Step”.<\/li>\n
  4. The next page lets you choose how you want to download the backup. Google recommends a once-off download.<\/li>\n
  5. Select the file type you want and click “Export”.<\/li>\n
  6. You will receive an email once the Takeout process is complete. You can then download the file.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Google originally announced the migration to Chat on 27 June 2022.<\/p>\n

    “While we encourage everyone to make the switch to Chat, Hangouts on the web will continue to be available until later this year,” it said.<\/p>\n

    Google recommended that Hangouts web users install Chat’s standalone progressive web application or use the chat.google.com web interface.<\/p>\n

    “Users will see an in-product notice at least a month before Hangouts on the web starts redirecting to Chat on the web.”<\/p>\n

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    Google Hangouts users have until 1 January 2023 to download data that didn’t automatically migrate to Google Chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":467181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[167,9756,19508,62960],"class_list":["post-467165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google","tag-google-chat","tag-google-hangouts","tag-google-takeout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467233,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467165\/revisions\/467233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}