Turn on Google Voice SMS in Hangouts to unify your messaging. When launching the new Hangouts you will get a popup notice asking if you want to integrate Google Voice text messages and voicemail.
Of, avoid waiting by grabbing the APK and installing it on your device. If you don't have it yet, don't worry-Google's "staged rollouts" mean that app updates might take a few days to reach your device. The first step is to make sure that you have version 2.3 of Hangouts. If you are a Google Voice power user, or are just getting familiar with the service for the first time, follow our tutorial for understanding and getting the most out of what Google has put together. The new app requires some nuanced settings and requires one other download from the Play Store. Pulling this together on your phone takes a little bit of work, however. Update 6:20PM: The article has been updated to reflect that the new Hangouts Chrome App is not completely standalone.Hangouts is finally swallowing up Google Voice. The newest update to Google's messaging app includes Voice calling and texting, a further step towards fully combining the two services. It sounds like a nice improvement for Windows and Chromebook users hopefully we'll see something similar on Mac at some point. And of course there's voice calling (and full Google Voice integration) built in. "You’ll get all your messages as long as you have the app running, and your chats will sync across Hangouts on all your devices," says Google. There's no need to have a browser window open, but you'll need Chrome running somewhere in the background to use the new Hangouts Chrome App. Google is promising a "streamlined" design that won't get in the way or prove bothersome when you're trying to get work done it's also possible to toggle off the persistent view entirely by the sounds of it.
If that sounds a lot like Facebook Messenger's Chat Heads, it's because that's pretty much exactly what this is: Chat Heads on the desktop - but with Hangouts instead of your Facebook conversations. Today Google revealed a new Hangouts Chrome App for Chrome OS and Windows that always keeps conversations quickly accessible alongside whatever else you're working on or doing on a PC or Chromebook.
Using Hangouts on the desktop is about to get way better.
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