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Today we’re launching an update to Hangouts Dialer. Calling out from the Yelp app or within Chrome meant using your phone’s app, and you were never prompted with the option to go with the Hangouts Dialer instead. The app didn’t actually identify itself as a system dialer, meaning that tapping phone numbers within other apps wouldn’t let you dial out via Hangouts. If you’re not already using Hangouts in Gmail, simply click on your photo above the chat list and select “Try the new Hangouts”.īefore today, if you wanted to replace your phone with the Hangouts Dialer, it was a pain. You can see your friends’ statuses by selecting the “Contacts” tab on the bottom left corner of Hangouts. Status messages for Hangouts in Gmail are “available” starting today! Status messages make it easy to tell your Gmail contacts what you’re doing – whether you’re going on a trip, working from home on Tuesday, or thinking about adopting a puppy. Here’s the official announcement from Google, really bad pun and all: To get the updated version of Hangouts in Gmail, just click your own contact name, where you’ll find a button labeled “Try the new Hangouts.” After that, just click your own contact again where you’ll find you can now set a status message (and even use Emoji if you’d like!). There’s also a Hangouts icon at the bottom that will show your most recent Hangouts message, truly bringing a Hangouts-like experience to Gmail–albeit in mini form. The Hangouts area, if you weren’t already using it, looks much more like Hangouts in Google+, showing you a small avatar for each contact. Google has updated Hangouts in Gmail today to allow users to set a status message.

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Leaked screenshots show the upcoming Hangouts app for Android Wear Meanwhile, we’re waiting patiently for the long-anticipated overhaul of Hangouts and, just as importantly, its upcoming Android Wear counterpart. Google Docs, for example, which comes shipped on all Nexus devices and others, is only in the 50-100 million range. Passing 1 billion installs isn’t very exciting considering the app comes pre-installed as the default messaging client on most Android phones, but it’s worth noting that not all of Google’s stock apps have come anywhere close to this milestone. Other than Hangouts, there are 7 apps from Google that have 1 billion, and 3 apps owned by Facebook. The app is the 11th app to hit this milestone, followed most recently by Facebook Messenger and Google Play Books. Hangouts, Google’s messaging platform in long need of an overhaul, has today passed 1 billion installs on the Google Play Store. Hangouts 4.0 leaks again, but you can start conversations from Android Wear right now These settings will be available across the Hangouts apps, and of course, those who are using the Hangouts app on the desk through Google+ or otherwise will be able to take advantage of them as well. Personally, I like the way Google has things set up.

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Or, if you’re more of a free spirit, you can conversely use this opportunity to open up your inbox to any and all messages and allow everyone to contact you directly. If you’d like, you can require that only invitations can be sent - regardless of if the sender has your email/phone number or not. In the new options, you can choose to go with Google’s recommended system, or you can opt to customize three different categories of incoming messages yourself. Here’s the image that Jordanna Chord shared: Either the app detects that you probably know the person that’s contacting you (by way of you circling them, them having your email address, or otherwise) and lets them send you a message directly, or it puts incoming messages into an “Invitation” that you have to accept. How this works has never been customizable, but now Google is letting you customize these invitations to make them more or less strict. Hangouts, since the beginning, has separated incoming messages into two categories.

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