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 for any size of time is properly conscious of the corporate’s proclivity in 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 couple of years again, Google was in the midst of one among these durations of reinvention for its communication apps, and that meant merging Meet with Duo.
In the long run, 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 previous performance, presenting it as “Legacy (Duo) calling.” In case you have been nonetheless a fan of doing issues the previous manner, we’ve bought some unhealthy information for you, as Google now shares its intent to lastly minimize off all this legacy assist someday this coming September (by way of 9to5Google).
In case 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 will probably be shedding as Meet drops its assist:
Which will sound such as you’re shedding quite a bit, however we now have to needless to say Meet’s been on the forefront of Google’s improvement efforts these previous few years, and consequently provides a contemporary, feature-rich name expertise that the overwhelming majority of customers are probably going to desire, anyway. That features niceties like cloud encryption and dwell captions.
One surprising casualty could also be how video calls work on Google’s sensible shows just like the Nest Hub Max. Google’s transition FAQ explains that Nest gadgets solely assist legacy calls, so it feels just like the Hub Max’s already restricted name assist could also be downgraded even additional — prone to non-functional standing, by the sound of it.
Hopefully we’ll be listening to a little bit extra concerning the trivialities of this transition, together with precisely when in September we will anticipate to see it happen, over the time between from time to time.
