Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Google merged Duo into Meet again in 2022.
- Ever since, some Duo options have remained as a legacy calling mode inside Meet.
- Google now shares that this legacy assist is ending in September.
Anybody who’s been utilizing Google services and products for any size of time is nicely conscious of the corporate’s proclivity in the direction of… let’s say “reorganizing” issues. Branding will get up to date, new companies are launched, merchandise break up off, merchandise get mixed, and generally Google simply has to kill one off. A number of years again, Google was in the course of certainly one of these durations of reinvention for its communication apps, and that meant merging Meet with Duo.
Ultimately, we misplaced Duo as we knew it, and noticed it absorbed into Meet. However whilst that occurred, Google let customers proceed to entry a few of that outdated performance, presenting it as “Legacy (Duo) calling.” When you had been nonetheless a fan of doing issues the outdated means, we’ve acquired some dangerous information for you, as Google now shares its intent to lastly reduce off all this legacy assist someday this coming September (by way of 9to5Google).
When you haven’t actually been staying on prime of the entire break up between Duo and Meet (or simply understandably stopped caring after the transition again in 2022) right here’s a fast overview of the options that Google says legacy customers can be shedding as Meet drops its assist:
That will sound such as you’re shedding rather a lot, however we now have to remember the fact that Meet’s been on the forefront of Google’s growth efforts these previous few years, and consequently gives a contemporary, feature-rich name expertise that the overwhelming majority of customers are doubtless going to favor, anyway. That features niceties like cloud encryption and reside captions.
One sudden casualty could also be how video calls work on Google’s good shows just like the Nest Hub Max. Google’s transition FAQ explains that Nest units solely assist legacy calls, so it feels just like the Hub Max’s already restricted name assist could also be downgraded even additional — more likely to non-functional standing, by the sound of it.
Hopefully we’ll be listening to a bit extra concerning the trivia of this transition, together with precisely when in September we are able to anticipate to see it happen, over the time between at times.
