In June, Google announced that it’s bringing the features of Meet into the Duo app — and that translation begins today. Google isn’t technically getting escaped of either app; Duo’s getting rebranded arsenic Meet with the features from some apps, and Meet’s staying Meet.
Yes, it sounds beauteous confusing, but by the extremity of this process, determination volition beryllium conscionable 2 apps: “Meet Original” (the modular Meet app that volition yet get phased out) and the caller Meet that combines some Meet and Duo. The combined app volition fto you behaviour some radical and one-on-one calls arsenic good arsenic clasp meetings.
If you already person Duo installed, you won’t person to bash anything. Last month, Google pushed a Duo update that adds the features from Meet, and today, Google’s rolling retired an update connected iOS and Android that volition alteration the Duo logo to the Meet icon. By September, anyone who downloads the Google Meet app volition person the caller Meet / Duo combo. Google notes that duo.google.com volition redirect to meet.google.com/calling implicit the adjacent fewer months.
Now, if you’re a Meet user, you don’t person to bash thing close present if you conscionable privation to support utilizing it arsenic it has ever existed without immoderate further perks from Duo. Google whitethorn yet extremity enactment for the archetypal Meet, truthful conscionable support that successful caput if you privation to proceed utilizing the app as-is. Google says it volition pass archetypal Meet users erstwhile they “should migrate to the caller app experience” but doesn’t specify erstwhile that volition happen.
This alteration adds different furniture of complexity to Google’s web of messaging apps but is simply a motion that Google’s consolidating the services it already has alternatively than conscionable adding a caller one. Earlier this year, Google announced that it would unopen down Hangouts in November successful favour of Google Chat. Google besides ended third-party enactment for Google Talk (aka GChat) past month.