Tough to tell exactly what’s going on at this specific moment in time, but a number of our readers (me included), are seeing a “Migrate Google Voice to Hangouts” message in Hangouts on Android. The box is a familiar prompt that was discovered as a debugging option a couple of months back, but at the time, it didn’t work. Tonight, it appears to be semi-working.
Once I clicked “Turn it on!” and placed a call to myself to leave a voicemail through Google Voice, I did indeed receive a notification in Hangouts for that message from Google Voice. Unfortunately, the message came through as “Unable to transcribe message,” and is basically worthless. It’s almost as if a switch has been flipped, but maybe not fully flipped.
Is the migration finally happening? Hit up the comments with your current situation, as in, if you use Google Voice.
Update: Also received the prompt in the web Google Voice portal. It’s happening!
Update 2: It seems beyond broken. Google Voice messages are certainly coming through Hangouts now, with “GV” attached to them, but the numbers aren’t being picked up in my contacts, and I also can’t reply to anyone.
Update 3: It’s officially happening. All the details, including the .apk can be found here!
Update 4: Here is how to setup your voicemails to show in Hangouts and also not see double notifications.
Cheers Anthony, Brett and Haley!
This post was last modified on September 10, 2014 12:15 pm