The app will still be available as part of the G Suite’s Hangouts Chat for workplaces. But the 2020 end-date has been assigned for consumers.
Enjoy Hangouts while you can — because the feature may be ending come 2020.
9to5Google has reported that, according to an unnamed source familiar with the product’s internal roadmap, next year will be the last year Google Hangouts will be available to consumers. While it may be sad for some of us who began using the service when it launched in 2013, Hangouts has actually lost key features in recent years, such as SMS messaging, and the company stopped updating the app.
