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Google Chat Gets Material Design 3 UI Update

Tim April 13, 2023 8

Google announced a refreshed Google Chat on desktop this week, based on Material Design 3. Inside, users will find an updated font, nice colors, a rearranged layout, sizing changes for panels within the UI, and more. Specifics include changes to the top app...

Android’s New Photo Picker Magically Starts Working With a Bunch of Apps

Kellen December 16, 2022 9

The new Photo Picker that was first introduced with Android 13 as a more-secure and (hopefully) more consistent way to choose media you share within apps, is rolling out more widely this week. A change on the back-end from Google has apparently made the new...

A Final Goodbye to Google Hangouts

Kellen November 1, 2022 10

This has been said a number of times over the years now, so I get that you may be like, "Huh?" but Google Hangouts is supposed to officially begin its final stages of shutdown today. November 1 has been the marked day for all of the final Hangouts locations to...

Google Chat Rolls Out Inline Threading to Conversations

Kellen October 18, 2022 6

Because the conversations you may have in Google Chat can become quite complex, assuming you use it as a work tool, Google is adding a feature I can imagine was highly requested. Inline threading is here for those times where a side conversation might be...

Google Hangouts Breathes Last Workspace Breath on November 1

Tim September 3, 2022 6

Google announced this week that for Workspace users, Google Hangouts will be fully upgraded to Google Chat starting November 1, 2022. The last piece of the puzzle is Hangouts on web, which will redirect to Google Chat on web at the start of next month. At that...

Google Tells Remaining Hangouts Users That It’s Time for Chat

Kellen June 28, 2022 7

We've been talking about the end of Hangouts for at least a couple of years now, thanks to Google confirming that Google Chat would eventually replace it and that they'd one day force you to use it. After several steps have cleared for Google to push its...

Poll: Are You Using Google Chat?

Kellen May 23, 2022 74

Leaving Google Hangouts for another messaging platform was a once-unimaginable idea. My entire family (and most friends) had all bought into Google's most important messaging app over the years because it was simple to use through a Google account and worked...

Google Hangouts has Left the Play Store

Kellen April 1, 2022 22

Google Hangouts has had the slowest death of all time. We first started talking about its demise back in 2020, shortly after Google released Chat and Meet. At that time, we believed that Hangouts might disappear from our phones and the Play Store within that...