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Once your call begins, you can quickly turn off cameras or mute microphones with one simple click. To send a photo, click the image icon on the bottom-right to send your photos to everyone in the group.įor video calls, click the video call button, and another window will pop up.

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You can add more people to your group chat by clicking the plus icon found at the top of the chatbox.

When you want to chat with someone, all that's required is typing their name or email address in the search bar and sending them an invitation. Chats can be used for many purposes - whether you're looking for some entertainment while waiting in line at Starbucks or sharing your latest vacation photos. The Hangouts app has the standard features of most messaging apps like Zoom and allows users to easily send emojis, status updates, videos, or photos.

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If you find some free time, there's also the Google Duo icon that allows live feeds from the user's camera - perfect for sharing moments with friends near and far at any given moment.Ĭhats are a quick and easy way to communicate with friends. When you open a new message, it displays an updated list of everyone online and available for a chat or call. Now in less than three years, I've had to change carrier integration twice.Google Hangouts is a simple option for keeping up with people synced to your account. I had carrier integration with Google Voice with Sprint for nearly eight years from Juntil May 2018, when they killed the service. (I really missed the official Google voice widget once I switched from Google Voice to Google Hangouts when Sprint ended their carrier integration with Google, forcing me to port my number to Google Fi to keep carrier integration. Maybe someday, Google with develop a Chrome Extension for Google Messages, but I wouldn't hold my breath, because the entire time I was using Hangouts, I had to use an unofficial widget for Google Hangouts. I couldn't do that when I was using Google Hangouts or Google Voice. (Although, for some reason, it understands if I ask it to make a call with Google Duo.) If I'm in the car, and I get a text message, I can have the car read aloud and reply to my text messages. I've really wanted that for a long time, because the Google Assistant didn't understand, 'Hey Google, use Google Hangouts to send a text message to.'.

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This allows all apps that send you text and OTA (over-the-air) messages for verification to work automatically instead of having to manually turn carrier integration off and then back on each time you need to use them, and 'Hey, Google, send a text message to.' works natively. Now, your phone's native stock text messaging app is the same app for your carrier integration, which, if you've been using Google Voice with carrier integration and subsequently Google Hangouts with carrier integration like I have, you haven't enjoyed for over a decade. It just opens a link, pretty lame I know. The unofficial extension doesn't tell you if you have a new message or when someone's calling or let you send or receive texts from the extension: nothing. There is an unofficial extension, but it does nothing other than opening /web in a new window, which is useless if you already have it only your bookmarks bar. Sadly, unlike Google Voice & Google Hangouts, there's no official Chrome extension for Google Messages. U/tankerkiller125real is right, u/Robodude, and is where you can see Google's official YouTube video showing how it works.

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