Wednesday 27 January 2016
Google Hangouts is reportedly losing its SMS capabilities. In another confusing move, Google’s Hangouts update has a pop-up that directs users to use the Messenger app for SMS — not Hangouts. Via Ars Technica: In the newest update, Hangouts 7.0, the app now pops up a dialog box suggesting that you stop using Hangouts for SMS and switch to Android’s standalone SMS client, “Messenger.” Google apps usually pop up messages like this when Google is preparing to remove or stop working on a feature. Hangouts posted a similar message when it first integrated SMS, and again when it integrated Google Voice, telling users to switch…
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