G Suite Users Moving To Hangouts Chat In Addition To Regard Inwards October

Update August 2019: Final migration of G Suite customers from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat has been postponed until after June 2020.

Google has announced that G Suite Users volition survive moved from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat together with Hangouts Meet inward October. If yous accept a consumer Google concern human relationship hence this volition NOT behaviour upon you.

The higher upward dates are specific to G Suite customers together with their terminate users who role classic Hangouts. We volition transcend on to support consumer role of classic Hangouts, together with await to transition consumers to gratuitous Chat together with Meet next the transition of G Suite customers. H5N1 to a greater extent than specific timeline volition survive communicated at a afterwards date.

Hangouts Meet video calling is attain to go. It's already possible to accept grouping video calls alongside people exterior your arrangement together with has many improved features. Compare Hangouts Meet to classic Hangouts video calling to run into the differences.

Hangouts Chat on the other paw is nevertheless a operate inward progress. Google has promised a release of pregnant novel features volition survive added earlier the transition inward Oct to brand that procedure less painful.

Here is what volition survive happening alongside Hangouts Chat over the adjacent ix months:

April 16, 2019: for G Suite domains using classic Hangouts, Hangouts Chat volition automatically survive enabled for the spider web together with mobile devices. Users tin transcend on to role classic Hangouts.

Between Apr together with September: Google volition survive adding novel features to Hangouts Chat, including:

• Integration alongside Gmail
• Chatting alongside external users
• An improved video calling experience
• Making calls alongside Google Voice

October 2019: Classic Hangouts volition survive retired for G Suite together with users volition survive transitioned to Hangouts Chat.

If yous are a G Suite administrator, survive certain to read the official statement on the G Suite Updates blog. That has to a greater extent than details most changes to G Suite admin settings for Hangouts together with Google Vault.

One-to-one conversations tin survive accessed from both Classic together with Chat

Direct messages can survive accessed inward both classic Hangouts together with Hangouts Chat. Currently that's alone available for one-to-one conversations betwixt users on the same domain. In Apr 2019, users of classic Hangouts tin straight message whatever Hangouts Chat user, including external users.

Group conversations are not accessible from both classic Hangouts together with Hangouts Chat. Any grouping conversations inward classic Hangouts volition accept to survive re-created inward Hangouts Chat.

Learn to a greater extent than most interoperability betwixt classic Hangouts together with Hangouts Chat

G Suite Migration From Classic Hangouts To Hangouts Chat Postponed Until June 2020

Google has announced that the migration from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat for G Suite users (work as well as schoolhouse accounts) is postponed from Oct 2019 to June 2020.  Migration of consumer users -- personal accounts, unremarkably using an @gmail.com address -- volition hold out after the migration of G Suite users.

"Phase 4" of the migration procedure for G Suite users volition hold out inwards "late 2020". At that fourth dimension all remaining classic Hangouts G Suite users volition hold out moved to Hangouts Chat as well as G Suite users won't hold out able to role classic Hangouts. But "no changes volition hold out made to the consumer version of classic Hangouts. [Hangouts is] continuing to back upwards consumers."

You tin see the updated transition timeline here.

In the meantime, Google volition hold out working to amend the transition process, as well as adding novel features to Hangouts Chat similar Read receipts.

If you lot are a G Suite administrator as well as your organization would similar to migrate to Hangouts Chat earlier that sooner than side past times side June, you lot tin asking an invitation to the Accelerated Transition Program.

More information

• Transition timeline for Hangouts Chat
• Known limitations of Hangouts Chat during the Accelerated Transition Program
• Announcement: Updates to Hangouts Chat migration timelines
• Previously: G Suite users moving to Hangouts Chat as well as Meet inwards Oct 2019

Weekly Update - January 26, 2019: Hangouts, Youtube, Webmasters Too More

Jan is coming to a close, too this calendar week nosotros got a information nearly what volition endure happening inward the coming months for YouTube, Hangouts inward G Suite, Search Console too more. No, at that spot hasn’t been an update from Google+ nearly the Apr shutdown for consumer users. There also has non been whatever update from Blogger nearly what volition endure happening to Google+ features.

• Beginning of the end? Buffer ended Google+ back upwards on Jan 25th and Hootsuite volition cease Google+ back upwards on Jan 28th. Other social media administration platforms that offering integration amongst Google+ volition also endure affected every bit there may endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API starting the 28th. While this won’t comport on posting to Google+ directly, businesses, organizations, too Pages that purpose 3rd political party tools to access Google+ may halt posting altogether. 
• New Google+ migration alternative: LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. Todd Hawk is answering questions inward the “G+” Community Owners too Moderators community nearly how it works.
• YouTube announced they volition endure reducing recommendations for content that could "misinform inward harmful ways", similar "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming earth is flat, or making blatantly simulated claims nearly historic events similar 9/11."
• YouTube has a novel informative FAQ answering questions nearly copyright claims and companies that may endure abusing the Content ID system.
• G Suite users volition endure moved from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat too Meet inward October. All G Suite domains volition convey Hangouts Chat enabled inward April, too Google promises a issue of novel features volition endure rolled out earlier Classic Hangouts is retired *for G Suite users only*. This update volition non comport on consumer users, who volition endure able to hold using Classic Hangouts. Eventually consumer users volition endure transitioned to Chat too Meet too, but at that spot is no timeline for that yet.
• Google Voice is rolling out voice-over-IP calling to all users. This lets Voice users brand calls using the Google Voice app on mobile devices or at voice.google.com every bit an alternative to placing calls through Google Hangouts. 
• G Suite Realtime Comms production atomic number 82 Scott Johnston announced on Twitter that Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available exterior the US, starting amongst Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, too the UK. There are sadly no plans to offering * Google Voice to consumer users internationally. If y'all are interested, apply for the Early access Program. 
• Google Search Console is a gratuitous tool that lets webmasters assess site surgical physical care for inward Google Search. Features are gradually beingness moved from the sometime version of Search Console to the novel version. At the end of March at that spot volition endure a meaning update. What’s going: Crawl Errors report, fetch every bit Google tool, HTML suggestions, Property Sets, Android apps data. What’s new: Structured information dashboard amongst reports organized past times “vertical” (like Jobs, Recipes, too Events).
• Gmail has novel features: an Undo/Redo button, slow strikethrough formatting, too the might to download messages every bit .EML files (which tin endure imported into other electronic mail clients).
• If y'all are interested inward Blogger, check out my appearance on Michael Daniel’s Tinkering amongst Tech show. I acquire through simply about of the basic settings too respond questions.

Read on for to a greater extent than links, tips too updates for YouTube creators, draw concern owners, advertisers too more.

Image: Monday, Jan 28th is Data Protection Day in Europe too Data Privacy Day inward the ease of the world. I idea that deserved a cheesy all-your-data-is-secure graphic. To celebrate run a Security Checkup on your Google Account. Image past times JanBaby on Pixabay.

Upcoming

• January 25: Buffer removed choice to portion to Google+
• January 28: HootSuite back upwards for Google+ ends
• January 28: There volition showtime to endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API. The Google+ API volition endure fully unopen downwards March 7. The Google+ API lets external sites too apps connect to Google+. 
• January 31: YouTube Video Credits removed
• January 31: YouTube removes choice to automatically portion to Google+ too Twitter
• February 1: Deadline for intelligence organizations to apply for Newspack past times Wordpress.com 
• February 5: Old Google Contacts unopen down

YouTube too Video Creation

• YouTube improving recommendations (YouTube)
• YouTube TV goes nationwide, inward fourth dimension for the Super Bowl (YouTube)
• Answers to your questions nearly copyright claims on YouTube (YouTube)
• Yellow $ trouble? Ask YouTube policy specialists nearly the advertiser-friendly guidelines inward Jan 25th AMA (YouTube)
• YouTube Music Unveils its First-Ever 'Artists to Watch' inward Commonwealth of Australia too New Zealand (Google Australia)

Go Live

• Google Ad Manager Integration for Live too On-Demand Video (IBM Video Streaming)

Google+

• LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. (Todd Hawk inward the “G+” Community Owners too Moderators community)

Other social media

• Focusing on the novel Search Console, moving features too deprecating others (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (January 22) (Google Webmasters) 

AdSense too advertising

• Google hitting amongst £44m GDPR fine over ads (BBC News)
• Bringing to a greater extent than transparency to the Indian Lok Sabha Election 2019 (Google India)
• Google Partners Academy on Air: Simplify too grown your draw concern amongst machine learning (Google Partners)

Hangouts too Messaging

• Upcoming Hangouts service consolidation for all G Suite customers (G Suite Updates)
• Two novel Hangouts Meet tools added to the Admin console: character tool too activeness logs (G Suite Updates)
• Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available internationally (Scott Johnston)
• New Gmail compose formatting too download options (G Suite Updates)
• Find to a greater extent than ease inward your life this year, amongst assistance from Google (Google)

Privacy too Security

• How practise y'all principle the evolution of artificial intelligence? Policymakers are trying to figure that out (New York Times)
• Yes, “algorithms” tin endure biased. Here’s why (Ars Technica)
• Verizon Lays Off 800 Employees Within ‘Media Group’, Comprising Yahoo, Tumblr, More (Tubefilter)
• BuzzFeed has started its layoffs, but it’s also talking nearly a merger (Recode)
• Google asks Supreme Court to dominion on when code tin endure copyrighted (The Verge)
• Oracle v. Google too the hereafter of software development (Google)
• Expanding cognition access amongst the Wikimedia Foundation (Google)

Weekly Update - January 26, 2019: Hangouts, Youtube, Webmasters As Well As More

Jan is coming to a close, in addition to this calendar week nosotros got a information nigh what volition endure happening inwards the coming months for YouTube, Hangouts inwards G Suite, Search Console in addition to more. No, at that topographic point hasn’t been an update from Google+ nigh the Apr shutdown for consumer users. There also has non been whatsoever update from Blogger nigh what volition endure happening to Google+ features.

• Beginning of the end? Buffer ended Google+ back upwardly on Jan 25th and Hootsuite volition halt Google+ back upwardly on Jan 28th. Other social media management platforms that offering integration alongside Google+ volition also endure affected every bit there may endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API starting the 28th. While this won’t ship on posting to Google+ directly, businesses, organizations, in addition to Pages that travel 3rd political party tools to access Google+ may halt posting altogether. 
• New Google+ migration alternative: LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. Todd Hawk is answering questions inwards the “G+” Community Owners in addition to Moderators community nigh how it works.
• YouTube announced they volition endure reducing recommendations for content that could "misinform inwards harmful ways", similar "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming Blue Planet is flat, or making blatantly faux claims nigh historic events similar 9/11."
• YouTube has a novel informative FAQ answering questions nigh copyright claims and companies that may endure abusing the Content ID system.
• G Suite users volition endure moved from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat in addition to Meet inwards October. All G Suite domains volition accept Hangouts Chat enabled inwards April, in addition to Google promises a issue of novel features volition endure rolled out earlier Classic Hangouts is retired *for G Suite users only*. This update volition non ship on consumer users, who volition endure able to perish on using Classic Hangouts. Eventually consumer users volition endure transitioned to Chat in addition to Meet too, but at that topographic point is no timeline for that yet.
• Google Voice is rolling out voice-over-IP calling to all users. This lets Voice users brand calls using the Google Voice app on mobile devices or at voice.google.com every bit an alternative to placing calls through Google Hangouts. 
• G Suite Realtime Comms production Pb Scott Johnston announced on Twitter that Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available exterior the US, starting alongside Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, in addition to the UK. There are sadly no plans to offering * Google Voice to consumer users internationally. If you lot are interested, apply for the Early access Program. 
• Google Search Console is a gratuitous tool that lets webmasters assess site functioning inwards Google Search. Features are gradually beingness moved from the erstwhile version of Search Console to the novel version. At the end of March at that topographic point volition endure a pregnant update. What’s going: Crawl Errors report, fetch every bit Google tool, HTML suggestions, Property Sets, Android apps data. What’s new: Structured information dashboard alongside reports organized past times “vertical” (like Jobs, Recipes, in addition to Events).
• Gmail has novel features: an Undo/Redo button, slow strikethrough formatting, in addition to the mightiness to download messages every bit .EML files (which tin terminate endure imported into other e-mail clients).
• If you lot are interested inwards Blogger, check out my appearance on Michael Daniel’s Tinkering alongside Tech show. I acquire through around of the basic settings in addition to respond questions.

Read on for to a greater extent than links, tips in addition to updates for YouTube creators, concern owners, advertisers in addition to more.

Image: Monday, Jan 28th is Data Protection Day in Europe in addition to Data Privacy Day inwards the relaxation of the world. I idea that deserved a cheesy all-your-data-is-secure graphic. To celebrate run a Security Checkup on your Google Account. Image past times JanBaby on Pixabay.

Upcoming

• January 25: Buffer removed pick to part to Google+
• January 28: HootSuite back upwardly for Google+ ends
• January 28: There volition get-go to endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API. The Google+ API volition endure fully closed downward March 7. The Google+ API lets external sites in addition to apps connect to Google+. 
• January 31: YouTube Video Credits removed
• January 31: YouTube removes pick to automatically part to Google+ in addition to Twitter
• February 1: Deadline for tidings organizations to apply for Newspack past times Wordpress.com 
• February 5: Old Google Contacts closed down

YouTube in addition to Video Creation

• YouTube improving recommendations (YouTube)
• YouTube TV goes nationwide, inwards fourth dimension for the Super Bowl (YouTube)
• Answers to your questions nigh copyright claims on YouTube (YouTube)
• Yellow $ trouble? Ask YouTube policy specialists nigh the advertiser-friendly guidelines inwards Jan 25th AMA (YouTube)
• YouTube Music Unveils its First-Ever 'Artists to Watch' inwards Commonwealth of Australia in addition to New Zealand (Google Australia)

Go Live

• Google Ad Manager Integration for Live in addition to On-Demand Video (IBM Video Streaming)

Google+

• LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. (Todd Hawk inwards the “G+” Community Owners in addition to Moderators community)

Other social media

• Focusing on the novel Search Console, moving features in addition to deprecating others (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (January 22) (Google Webmasters) 

AdSense in addition to advertising

• Google hitting alongside £44m GDPR fine over ads (BBC News)
• Bringing to a greater extent than transparency to the Indian Lok Sabha Election 2019 (Google India)
• Google Partners Academy on Air: Simplify in addition to grown your concern alongside machine learning (Google Partners)

Hangouts in addition to Messaging

• Upcoming Hangouts service consolidation for all G Suite customers (G Suite Updates)
• Two novel Hangouts Meet tools added to the Admin console: lineament tool in addition to action logs (G Suite Updates)
• Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available internationally (Scott Johnston)
• New Gmail compose formatting in addition to download options (G Suite Updates)
• Find to a greater extent than remainder inwards your life this year, alongside assist from Google (Google)

Privacy in addition to Security

• How practice you lot principle the evolution of artificial intelligence? Policymakers are trying to figure that out (New York Times)
• Yes, “algorithms” tin terminate endure biased. Here’s why (Ars Technica)
• Verizon Lays Off 800 Employees Within ‘Media Group’, Comprising Yahoo, Tumblr, More (Tubefilter)
• BuzzFeed has started its layoffs, but it’s also talking nigh a merger (Recode)
• Google asks Supreme Court to dominion on when code tin terminate endure copyrighted (The Verge)
• Oracle v. Google in addition to the time to come of software development (Google)
• Expanding noesis access alongside the Wikimedia Foundation (Google)

Week Inwards Review - August 24, 2019: Blogger, Youtube, Hangouts

This was a busy calendar week inward the Googleverse, alongside updates for YouTube, Photos, AdSense, Duo in addition to much more. I looked dorsum on Blogger’s 20 years in addition to forrard the rescheduled migration from Hangouts inward slow 2020.

• Twenty years agone this calendar week Blogger was born. I took a await back in addition to utter nearly why Blogger is my chosen blogging platform.
• Starting this calendar month Google Photos is rolling out the might to search your photos past times the text in them. You tin operate built-in Google Lens to re-create the text in 1 lawsuit yous bring out it.
• Engadget reports that updated their policy to start removing “mature” content that targets younger children in addition to families, including videos alongside sexual themes, obscene content, in addition to violence. Previously such videos were age-restricted. Similar content that does non explicitly target younger kids volition transcend on to last age-restricted.
• YouTube Direct Messaging volition last going away September 18. You can download an archive of your chats using Google Takeout.
• G Suite users volition last migrated from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat in June, in addition to consumer users non until sometime afterward that. Originally G Suite user migration was scheduled for Oct of this year.
• Google Duo video calling has a novel depression lite mode, to arrive easier for callers to meet each other nether miserable lighting conditions.
• AdSense in addition to AdMob announced they are improving invalid activity detection. If yous are a Publisher in addition to your concern human relationship is affected, yous tin banking concern stand upward for your account’s Policy Center to meet to a greater extent than information to assist yous sympathize why at that spot is reduced lift serving to your site, in addition to information nearly the steps yous tin receive got to resolve whatever issues. Note that the Policy Center does non include actions taken on YouTube.
• prevent user tracking past times “fingerprinting”, which uses “tiny bits of information that vary betwixt users”, similar your device or the fonts yous receive got installed.
  The improve alternative is … cookies. Google argues that cookies are improve privacy-wise because users are aware they are beingness ready in addition to tin clear them. And, they argue, wide-scale blocking of cookie only encourages fingerprinting (which is bad because it invades your privacy) in addition to serving relevant ads (which decreases publisher revenue). I’m non certain whether Google is to a greater extent than concerned alongside the one-time or the latter.
• Pie 🥧 is the final sugariness Android treat. The Android logo was updated to coincide alongside the populace release of Android Q, which volition receive got the official yell … Android 10. Android volition no longer yell novel versions afterward desserts, inward component because they don’t interpret globally in addition to aren’t meaningful to novel users.
• Be certain to receive got a await at my playlist of the videos I propose inward my weekly roundup link list in addition to follow it inward your YouTube account.

Read on for to a greater extent than news, updates in addition to tips for YouTube creators, YouTube Music in addition to YouTube TV, advertisers in addition to lift publishers, Docs in addition to Gmail users, in addition to more.
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Upcoming

• August 25: Deadline to apply for YouTube Nextup Special Edition #womentowatch inward Cairo (creators based inward the Middle East in addition to North Africa including Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia in addition to Republic of Iraq only)
• August 25: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp for EduTubers inward Berlin, Germany
• August 25: Deadline for Adobe Spark Sea.Hear.Now creative challenge
• September 1: Google retiring “unsupported in addition to unpublished rules” (such equally noindex, nofollow in addition to crawl-delay) inward robots.txt
• September 9: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp Conhecimento Criativo inward Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

YouTube in addition to Video Creation

• YouTube removing “mature” content targeting children
• Expanding our kid security policies (YouTube)
• YouTube DMs are going away - savy a re-create of your chats!
• YouTube is experimenting alongside video appeals for YouTube Partner Program suspensions (Creator Insider)
• Bugs, Thumbnail A/B Testing, Improvements to Classifiers, in addition to More! (Creator Insider)
• Take your tunes on the road: YouTube Music comes to Waze (YouTube)
• Many Are Abandoning Facebook. These People Have the Opposite Problem. (New York Times)
• Blogger turns 20
• Blogger 20 years; 20 tips (Soraya Lambrechts)
• English Google Webmaster Central office-hours from 23.08.2019 (Google Webmasters)
• Mobile-first Indexing: Is Google Planning Opt-in/Opt-out? #AskGoogleWebmasters (Google Webmasters)
• AdSense improving invalid activity detection; adding activity notifications to your Policy Center
• Additional safeguards to protect the character of our lift network (AdMob)
• Next steps to ensure transparency, alternative in addition to command inward digital advertising (Google Ads)
• The mobile advertising challenge, in addition to how to stair out it (Google Marketing Platform)

Hangouts, Meetings in addition to Messaging

• G Suite users volition last migrated to Hangouts Chat inward June 2020 (G Suite Updates)
• By twenty-four lx minutes catamenia in addition to past times night: video call, no affair the lighting (Google)
• The Google Play store’s visual refresh (Android Developers)
• It’s time: Nest users tin at in 1 lawsuit switch to Google Accounts (Google)

Productivity

• Complete basic PDF forms straight inward Google Drive on mobile (G Suite Updates)
• Improved as-you-type spelling in addition to grammer correction inward Gmail (G Suite Updates)
• Improving real-time collaboration inward Google Docs for assistive technology scientific discipline users (G Suite Updates)
• Protecting Chrome users inward Kazakhstan (Google)
• Potential uses for the Privacy Sandbox (Google Chrome)
• Why Do Tech Companies File So Many Weird, Alarming Patents? (Slate)
• Google Lens, Augmented Reality, in addition to the Future of Learning (Wired)
• Stadia Connect Game Announcements (Stadia on YouTube)
• First glimpse at Google Stadia UI spotted at Gamescom, here’s what it in all probability means (9to5Google)