Google Depended on Contacts Formally Pulled From App Shops

Google has formally pulled the plug on its Depended on Contacts app. First presented in 2016, the app presented customers a strategy to proportion their instrument task standing and site with decided on contacts. It has now disappeared from each Google Play retailer and the Apple’s App Retailer. The tech massive may also forestall give a boost to for the app beginning December 1 this 12 months. The transfer follows a sequence of measures that Google has taken just lately to optimise its services. Depended on Contacts follows within the footsteps of Google’s two different location sharing apps — Google Latitude and Google+ Location Sharing — that had been scrapped previous.

Depended on Contacts used to be first inducted completely to Play Retailer for Android customers. A 12 months and a few upgrades later, it used to be made to be had for iOS customers by means of the App Retailer. Through then, it used to be built-in with Google Maps and presented helpful options like permitting a depended on touch to be added by means of e-mail cope with. But it surely slowly misplaced its sheen.

For individuals who have the Depended on Contacts app put in nonetheless, Google will finish give a boost to to it after December 1. The web site has publish a understand that says the date. Google is prompting the customers to make use of location sharing function, that now additionally comprises are living location — a capability of depended on contacts — on Google Maps as a substitute. Customers who want to obtain a listing in their depended on contacts even have until December 1 to do it from the web site.

In a an identical transfer, Google additionally plans to kill Hangouts. It just lately introduced that it is going to be transitioning customers from Hangouts to Google Chat this is now part of the re-branded Google Workspace (prior to now G Suite) someday subsequent 12 months. Hangout customers shall be triggered to make use of Meet (additionally part of Google Workspace) for video calls beginning November. The give a boost to for Hangouts will formally ends subsequent 12 months.

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