Google will begin rolling out two significant changes to Hangouts and Google Chat in advance of the upgrade from Hangouts to Chat.
- Group conversations in Hangouts will appear in Google Chat. In this new experience, your users can move from Hangouts to Chat without losing their full list of conversations. Conversely, many of their Chat conversations will also appear in Hangouts.
- Currently, when your users move from Hangouts to Google Chat they need to recreate their group conversations. As these changes are gradually implemented, the ability to see both new and existing conversations with history in Hangouts will also appear in Chat. This allows your users’ entire Hangouts message history to be available in Chat. This change will only be available for users who have Hangouts enabled.
- Updates to group messages. Your users will be able to add or remove members from new group messages in Chat. Members of group messages created after December 3 will be able to change group membership. In this new experience, your users and group members can add, remove, or leave these conversations at any time.
If you are unsure what this means to you as a Google G-Suite user get in touch with your IT Manager for advice on how it effects you and your company.
