#Video calls google update#

The remaining Meet users also don’t need to do anything for now - the app will continue to work as it is (without the extra Duo benefits). Google also notes that users from will be automatically redirected to /calling over the next few months. By September, anyone who tries to download Google Meet from the official store will get the new combined Meet/Duo app.

#Video calls google update#

Last month, Google released an update to Duo that adds Meet features, and on August 3, Google released an update for iOS and Android that replaces the Duo logo with a Meet icon. If the Duo application is already installed on the phone, then in this case no additional ones are required. This new Meet will allow both group and private calls, as well as video conferencing. Yes, it seems… a bit confusing, but at the end of this process you will be left with “Meet Original” (the classic Meet that will eventually be deprecated and retired) and a new Meet that combines Meet and Duo. The thing is, Google isn’t technically getting rid of any app-Duo will simply change its name to Meet and combine the features of both apps, while Meet will remain Meet. This was one of the first to be noticed by The Verge publication, which with its sarcastic headline (Google Meet meets Duo Meet, with Meet in Duo but Duo isn’t going into Meet) extremely aptly described Google’s confusing approach.

In June, Google announced the next phase of organizing messengers and merging Duo video chat and Meet video conferences into a single platform for voice and video calls, and yesterday the process of transferring functions from Meet to Duo actually began.