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Google Chat App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Works for the Most Part, Missing Key FeaturesI used hangouts a lot prior to switching to this new version. For the most part, I’m getting the same functionality I did with Hangouts. I do like the addition of being able to link with Google Suite content better. However, because the primary purpose of my use of this app is to schedule meetings, I really miss read receipts. There is no way to tell who is caught up in a group conversation anymore. This was a super helpful feature in Hangouts (when it was accurate) and I miss it a ton. If anyone else is in the same boat, we should send feedback through their system to see if the developers will add it back in..Version: 1.0.116
✓ WorseWorse in every way than Hangouts. Adding reactions to individual messages is nice but not a feature anyone asked for. Messages don’t always send if you exit the app too quickly. Notifications are unreliable. Stickers are gone. Overall just another step in Google’s consolidation of everything (built-in compatibility with Mail, Drive, Calendar, Meetings) but Hangouts had more personality AND worked better. I get that not many people still used it, typically favoring iOS messaging or Discord, but I might prefer switching to those rather than this inferior replacement. It might have gotten three stars on its own merits but the fact that it axed Hangouts on its way in loses it two of them. I don’t foresee this being useful outside of a work context, in which case I’d probably still prefer email..Version: 1.0.166
✓ Still gonna use it but hangouts was betterThe only problem with google chats is that it’s extremely hard to make a new chat with someone new.Version: 1.0.130
✓ DisappointedI'm really disappointed being forced to move from Hangouts to Google Chat / Workspace. I used Hangouts primarily for phone calls. The Google Chat interface is confusing and the phone icon is dull, meaning I can't make a call. This is very frustrating. Not everyone wants to set up a meeting or use the video feature. Why mess with a good thing, Google?.Version: 1.0.162
✓ Is okPls add the stickers back it was soo good Also, can you put space between the text? And put one person’s text on one side and the other’s on another side? Like the hangouts format? Thanks.Version: 1.0.120
✓ Could be betterI feel this chat doesn’t take full advantage of being a google product and being able to integrate all products seamlessly. The fact that you can upload one thing at a time is a big pain. The chat works, but it’s nothing more than that..Version: 1.0.30
✓ The Worst!!Google should be positively ashamed of themselves! This is the worst chat app I have ever used. They took away hangouts and gave us chat which has significantly less functionality. You can’t even attach multiple photos at one time! What year is this, 2010!? Trying to get to attach anything or any other feature requires hitting small little icons that are easy to mess and layers deep. Trying to use the text box and move your cursor around inevitably ends up hitting the emoji icon and bringing up that screen. There is no distinction in terms of who is talking so trying to look through the conversation becomes quite challenging and hard on the eyes. There is no excuse at this point in time for a chat app to be this bad compared to all others. I have been using Hangouts since it started 15 or so years ago and now they lost me..Version: 1.0.164
✓ MehIt’s good and all but takes long time to send chats and sometimes app glitches or shows poor internet connection when I show full bar connection..Version: 1.0.230
✓ Google’s latest way to let spam hit you for their ad revenueInstalled this to try to block the random chat spam that shows up in my inbox. Looks like it’s impossible. If you have a google email address, you’re going to get spam from random strangers, who will be out phishing or trying to scam you. Once again, Google makes the Internet a worse place, with lousy products whose security is deliberately and intrinsically compromised to force you into using their ecosystem of ill-considered, high-churn abandonware in the aid of their psychometric data gathering..Version: 1.0.162
✓ SlowTakes forever to download.Version: 1.0.239
✓ Slow and buggyExtremely slow when sending images and videos, often sends them as the wrong format, e.g. sending a gif as a video, and takes a long time to "process" them..Version: 1.0.172
✓ Hangouts was betterHello there, let me start this by first saying that I haven’t used gchat all that much so maybe I’m not quite used to all it’s features yet but I think no matter what my point will stand: hangouts was better. I can’t frankly think of a reason why google would take something that had been used for so long and was very effective and completely change it, especially now when people are relying on online chatting platforms even more. I have used hangouts for 6 years and have never had any complaint with them, my school used it profusely for contact between teachers and students (as well as between students for group projects and clubs). Relating to this, a club I am a part of that heavily relied on hangouts as a way to communicate meeting times and important information is now struggling to figure out how to use gchat the same way - again, we haven’t used gchat that much so maybe we’re missing an important feature, but if it was truly that important it should have been more obvious to know..Version: 1.0.78
✓ You’re falling apart google chat, and I don’t know how to help you.When you used to be able to send messages and make sure others could see them, we were all happy, but you weren’t. You always needed more, and it was never me, it was you. You failed miserably many times. I once made a deal with my friend, but it didn’t send properly, and she got angry at me. How annoying it was google. At first, I truly loved you google. You were perfect, the most amazing chat ever, but now, I think its over between us google chat. Forgive me for being angry, but I will never forgive you. You always change, for example, putting my messages on the right. I believe it looks bad, and I miss being mixed in with my friends. So, google chat, I’ll miss you, but it’s for the better. Anyway, Bing and I have been chatting for a while now, and were getting serious. But, I’ll never forget you google chat. You were a big part of my life, and for that, I am grateful, but for everything else, screw it. I will never leave google in general, it’s my family, but you, chat, it’s over..Version: 1.0.224
✓ Why would you move from hangouts?The layout is bad compared to hangouts and and half the images don’t show in chats but are fine in hangouts..Version: 1.0.128
✓ Rubbish - slows the rest of google mail and docs downI cannot believe that Google failed to test this upgrade. I work for a large publisher and we use the professional version. It is absolutely rubbish, slows everything down so it is practically impossible to have hangouts, mail and docs open at the same time. It’s not worth a single penny that Google must have spent developing it. Back to the drawing board boys..Version: 1.0.83
✓ Not as good as Hangout for chatting with friendsI switched from Google Hangouts to Google Chat for about a week, and now have switched back. Chat separates group from individual convos in different tabs. I only chat with a small group for friends and it was nice to have everything in the side bar with my most recent convo at the top and open. In chat every time I open it I have to do 2-3 extra steps to get to my group chat which is what I use most. It’s annoying and I don’t like it. Also uploading pics and videos is easier and more intuitive in Hangouts than Chat. For me Hangouts is a great app for chatting with friends individually and in small groups. Google Chat seems more tuned to business use. Don’t try to make it an all in one chat app, it will only be bad at many things instead of good at a few. *I have deleted this app and will be using Hangouts until forced to switch..Version: 1.0.114
✓ No connection ( web channel )It’s a good app and all until, one day I can’t connect suddenly in google chat! It shows: “no connection (web channel)” my internet was connected and gmail was connected to google chat too. I couldn’t see the texts! Please, how do you fix this?.Version: 1.0.126
✓ Dreadful accessibility issuesPersonally I have no problem using this app, but as a family we used Hangouts a lot and one of the family is partially sighted. Now we have all been forced to use Chat, the partially sighted member can no longer use it, as the accessibility options are virtually non existent. You can make the text larger, that it. The conversations aren’t in different colours, the text is all left aligned, and the text typing box and icons are all tiny and you can’t make them bigger. They couldn’t see where to enter text or where the send button was or anything. Hopeless. The entire family will now have to move to another messaging app. Do the developers ever actually test these apps with a partially sighted tester?.Version: 1.0.166
✓ Dreadful replacement for hangouts no video calling in appI used hangouts to stay in touch with my computer illiterate parents. Without supporting simple video calling from chat and now requiring setting up meetings to do so which my parents don’t understand there is no way this is a functional alternative. A serious downgrade..Version: 1.0.126
✓ One thing more………I. Feel like u should be able to send a longer vid but like u can only send one for like 2 mins max CHANGE THAT PLZ.Version: 1.0.234
✓ Great but can’t upload multiple photosI love this app in many ways but the inability to upload multiple images is a big clunky problem. I hope Google enable this feature soon..Version: 1.0.156
✓ Absolute disasterI have lists of messages not sent and people complaining I’m not replying to them.Version: 1.0.162
✓ Not as good as hangoutsYou cannot see who is looking at a group chat - hangouts you could. Too hard to see who has sent you a chat. The only notification you get is ‘1 unread chat’. Too many people in the contacts list. Most of whom you have never contacted..Version: 1.0.77
✓ Group chat problemsIn a group chat the images don’t open. You tap on them and is just a black screen. There is not a confirmation that the other members of the group have read the message like it is in the individual chats. Needs improvement.Version: 1.0.124
✓ Seems to be a compatibility issue with iPadsSince your update about 4-5 weeks ago I CANNOT send any videos from my iPads in Google Chat (even ones that I have previously sent). Also, sometimes I cannot send photos either. And sometimes I can send some photos, but not others, it’s very random. I’ve been doing LOADS of experimenting to try and solve the issue, as before that I had no problems at all. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling the App, several times. Nothing has worked. Yesterday I installed Google Chat onto my iPhone and it does work there. So I can only assume now that the most recent updates are not compatible with iPads. Very annoying as they are the devices I use. Please can you work on solving this problem. *Also, I’d love the have the bubbles back… like in Hangouts, where each person’s msg was on a separate side of the screen. The way it is now gets very confusing trying to keep track of conversation. And it’s very easy to miss bits..Version: 1.0.186
✓ Yuck disgustingWelcome to the home of illegal activity which isn’t surprising being that Google has become the home of trashy propaganda. People do not understand how bad Google has become they allow trafficking and sex users to send any document or file to Google Docs and Google Drive without your permission and all you can do is delete the file and block / report them most of the time it’s after you kid had seen it . The same goes here as Google allows and promotes these Google group chat people who are scum to send anything to your chat without your permission and then after you wrestle with it and use the worthless block and report method from Google . How this big organization has survived without any customers service is beyond me and the community is the collection of all these bad people’s club house so you will find no help there. The only way to stay safe on Google is to be totally fake with all your info and I mean all of it . DO NOT ALLOW your kids to use Google anytime without a adult supervision period. My kids will not use it despite what their school and other social media platforms say . I really hope the right people get in to congress and something is down to tame this over powerful bully. Apple is not far behind and the decisions it is making doesn’t look promising!.Version: 1.0.244
✓ Doesn’t work for iOS 14 and belowIt’s great, but I can use it because I’m below iOS 14. So sending images and videos is so much harder on my laptop.Version: 1.0.202
✓ NEEDS DARK MODEC’mon google :( this shouldn’t be too hard. I’m tired of blinding myself when chatting with my team. How does google KEEP have a dark mode and not CHAT?.Version: 1.0.78
✓ Still waiting…I know you’ve made this for businesses. Yes, it is seamless and wonderful for people that are using this for their business for their offices and that since yes it’s wonderful. I use it to reach out to family. So I would still like to get back the stickers we used in Hangouts. I would also love if maybe you added more stickers or maybe different stickers if this app is supposed to be for everyone initiative also be user-friendly for those that use it for their families I use it to contact family that is away and I can’t go visit because of Covid. I use it to talk to my fiancé overseas so they said it should be user-friendly not only for businesses but for the average Joe..Version: 1.0.174
✓ TerribleGoogle meet hangouts talk chat is the most terrible chat app since the birth of galaxy. Lets start with the name. Is it chat, google chat, google hangouts, google hangouts chat, hangouts chat or meet chat chat? Second, it is slow. Like i need one feature from chat app. I type. I press enter. It is delivered. But hey, this app cant do that. Its as snappy as a drunk turtle. Finally, it asks me for a review. I havent chosen to use this app. My employer forced me to do so. Can we all go back to jabber please?.Version: 1.0.16
✓ Could be betterThe app crashes every 10 minutes, and my computer is the latest one. it wouldn’t let me use it on my main account. and now the app is not accessible. it is also now apparently $14.99 in canadian dollars. come on google chat..Version: 1.0.110
✓ REALLY GOOGLE!!!I used to love using Google Hangouts to chat with my boyfriend daily while he is overseas working. But, now I can not even chat with him without either of us running into issues. So, tell me Google, WHY, why are you killing off an app in the middle of a global pandemic that everyone but you seemed to like? Why take away everything that everyone liked about your app and turn it into this? I HATE this app! You guys made an internal use only app public, and it shows. Want to get rid of your chat app? Then get rid of this garbage too! Want to join Yahoo and MSN? Then keep it up. We the users of your app, want OUR features back, and we DEMAND to have a choice as to rather we use this app or Google Hangouts which you keep refusing to allow us to use. See your app in the digital trash bin Google, right where it belongs..Version: 1.0.142
✓ Limited calling optionsI have been using Hangouts for a while and the calling services to other users are fab. I’m now being told that I have to upgrade to Chat but I can’t see the calling function on my iPhone. Any suggestions? I have not been able to make any calls..Version: 1.0.162
✓ Not goodLimited functionality, threading feature is confusing. Really bad muting features. It's shocking that we haven't seen any updates to improve Hangouts chat yet.Version: 1.0.41
✓ Ok 👍When I first started, it was a little confusing. I didn’t know where to go to accept my invitations. But the more I explore the more clear it becomes 😁.Version: 1.0.250
✓ Missed the markThis app looks like it was designed for office use only and forgets that people use this outside of the office. The features are so alienating and cold in appearance. Even in the office environment I’ve found that myself and a number of colleagues aren’t able to reply as swiftly because it’s harder to see when you’ve got a new message. Hangouts might have been a little clunky and old fashioned but it was more user friendly and warm..Version: 1.0.118
✓ 1.0.244 is completely brokenI would give it zero stars if I could. Unable to see any spaces or messages, and unable to even send a chat to someone. Totally garbage, but par for the course with this terrible product..Version: 1.0.244
✓ Doesn’t WorkSo I downloaded this app to talk to my friend, and it said ‘Get Started’ and I pressed it and used my personal Google account, then, it said my organisation does not have access to this app yet. BUT IM NOT IN AN ORGANISATION it’s my personal account, so now I can’t use the app. I cant give it 1 star because I don’t know how the app actually is like, but it’s very disappointing that I cannot talk to my friend..Version: 1.0.91
✓ ErBring back hangouts🤦♀️.Version: 1.0.212
✓ An insult to anyone naive enough to download this app.It is frankly astonishing how bad this app is. In general, it is worse in every way compared to the competition.... but specifically on iPad it reaches a new level of horrendous. It *literally* is worse than Hangouts was on iPad, and Hangouts on iPad was already abysmal. There is not only no slide-over support, nor side-by-side support, but the interface itself is just the blown up phone interface. It is honestly incredible anyone at Google even allowed something like this to be released ever, let alone while they are constantly badgering their user base to switch to it. Congrats are in order to the Google Chat team. You have made me switch chat platforms away from google for the first time since the _original_ "GChat" from like 2006. Well done on finding new lows on what I already thought was a rock-bottom of user interface design..Version: 1.0.164
✓ Google chat is janky and full of hackerdI’ve been looking through the ratings, and through the app. The overall design isn’t as good as hangouts, why didn’t google just keep hangouts? I’m really confused as to why they did this. Also, all my contacts from hangouts were on google chat, and it took 1 minute longer to send a message on google chat than hangouts. Google have some explaining to do... And if they do respond, don’t say the exact same thing you say to everyone who puts a bad rating..Version: 1.0.142
✓ AwfulChat is so unintuitive compared to Hangouts. Why oh why did you retire Hangouts and replace it with this? I’m looking at you, Google. You can’t do video calls, have to switch to Google Meet. You can only send one image at a time. In Hangouts you could send 10. Nothing works as well as it did in Hangouts 😢 Ultimately you’ll just lose market share to Messenger, Telegram, WhatsApp, or any of the other chat apps that work as expected..Version: 1.0.166
✓ Why google, why.Google hangouts was such a good app. The only problem was the scammers and suspicious accounts. Hangouts was easy to use, you didn’t have to send a “meeting link” (copying zoom much?), you could see when people are active, when they were LAST active, and you could see if they had seen your messages or not (for some reason the chat section of the gmail app has this, the app does not. Sloppy organization.) Google chat has none of these. It also does not have stickers. Furthermore, the design of the app is boring and meaningless. It’s basically just a black and white screen with slots for people. The notification sound is boring and not even close to comparing with the iconic hangouts sounds. This app is bad in design and function. It’s like hangout’s incompetent second cousin that everyone hates. Google, I’m disappointed. If you have any intelligence left, bring hangouts back..Version: 1.0.164
✓ Hangouts was perfectSo was Allo and about 30 other Google chat apps, but they decided to write this one while the designers were on holiday (I’m guessing): text is dingy and the UI is cramped. Google don’t care about their users, only their numbers. The adage of don’t be evil is near to urban legend now. I’ve moved our team to a company who make it their business to be all about chat. Thankfully, Google will write a new chat app or three next week and this app can ride off into the sunset..Version: 1.0.134
✓ Honestly this is bad. I miss hangouts.Ive been using hangouts for 3 years and I accidentally deleted it. So, I was forced to download google chat. After hearing my friends say how awful it was, I was weary. But, they were right. It’s very hard to navigate, I can’t see other peoples statuses, I can’t change my profile picture, I can’t change it from light mode to dark mode, I can’t directly audio/meet my friends, all the chat on one side is just horrible on the eyes, and it’s very hard to send pictures and videos. It takes upwards of 5 minutes to send one picture let alone more. It will only let you send one picture at a time and not a couple like any normal app would. However, I use hangouts to talk to friends, I guess it would be fine if I used it for business? But I miss hangouts..Version: 1.0.158
✓ Unable to remove a previous block- why??Why can’t I remove a previous block?.Version: 1.0.152
✓ Bug in latest update when typing more than one lineLatest version has an issue where once you type more than one line or press return, you’re typing blind and can’t see what you’re typing until you press send Using a google workspace account g.Version: 1.0.130
✓ AmazingSo I recently started using Google Chats, that is because my parents didn’t allow me to have messenger, WhatsApp, Viber etc, so I downloaded Chats. The reason why I give it a 4 star review it is because my messages take long to send and whenever I try to send a video to my friend, it always says “Fail to send” which makes me a bit disappointed.Version: 1.0.106
✓ The is trashBRING BACK HANgOUTS BRING BACK HANGOUTS.Version: 1.0.128
✓ Someone onlineWould be good if could show when someone was last online and also be able to send larger videos without them being compressed down. I miss using hangouts. Can’t see when someone has been online/seen a message that is sent. Please bring back hangouts..Version: 1.0.193
✓ Google Device PolicyWork changed account to require google device policy so now I can use this app on my personal device without giving my work the ability to wipe my phone. 1 star because this is an excessive measure offered by google and there is no option to access google chat on a browser on phones..Version: 1.0.234
✓ A Google straight jacketOnce again, I’m waiting a ridiculous amount of time for a friend’s video to upload in Google Chat so I can watch it. I’m so tired of this nonsensical app that I have to say something. Here are all the problems I’ve encountered: - Can’t share files unless they’re in Google Drive (Google trying to limit you to using their products) - Videos are uploaded when you share them, which means it takes FOREVER. Hangouts shared videos right away, so I know they don’t have to do it like this. - Why on earth does it keep a copy of every link or image I send in the chat text box? Why would I want that when it’s right there as the last thing I sent? I hate having to delete it just to continue the conversation. - Separation of individuals and “rooms” confused everyone in my family (we use this as our primary communication). I’m used to it, but toggling back and forth to figure out where the new message is is still a nuisance. - WTAF the computer app isn’t a standalone app! You have to have Gmail open in Chrome to be able to use it even though you have to install it separately. Again, Google trying to keep you tethered to their products. There’s really almost nothing that’s an improvement here. Yes, you can react with emojis, and my mom no longer accidentally calls me when she leaves the chat open on her phone. But the rest of it is so annoying..Version: 1.0.176
✓ Lacks basic functionality, way too slowNo way to save an image from chat to the device (seriously!?) Super slow to load Won’t resume the app with your previous chat open Tiny tap area to open a chat from the list Lacking other really basic functionality for a messaging app. Never mind the question about why google now has 3+ messaging apps that do the same thing..Version: 1.0.4
✓ Desktop? Great! Mobile? Not so greatHey, this is someone who has used Hangouts VERY often. When I heard things were moving to Chat, I didn’t mind. On desktop, it was great. I really liked the reactions and the upgrade on statuses, that was cool. But on mobile? Sheeesh, not so good. There’s this weird glitch where I can’t send videos, even when they’re relatively short, and I can’t hardly send photos either! You can’t send multiples at once like you did on HG, and there’s no way to monitor if they’re sending or not. You hit send and you’re just shown the chat- you don’t see the picture sending or anything and its kind of annoying. Also, there seems to be a lag in statuses. Me and my friend had both set ourselves as active (both using chat) yet to each other, we showed as away. Yet my other friend (me using chat, him using hangouts) appeared as active. 🤨 If you’re going to do a transfer from HG to Chat, could you have at least ACTUALLY made Chat better?.Version: 1.0.108
✓ Updates????It’s is a good app just that you basically always have to have a Video Meet….Version: 1.0.134
✓ You can’t leave group chats!I thought this app was going to be fine but then I was invited into a group chat where I can’t leave! I do not like the people that are in it and I really want to leave but I CAN’T it is VERY annoying!!!!!.Version: 1.0.83
✓ Problem for accessing SpacesFor messages to only one other person it’s good, but as soon as you try to make a group it gets complicated. The other people have to join the group, but how to do this is not at all clear. You have to go into +new space, which is counterintuitive, since the space has already been created. Then into “browse spaces” which is also not obvious. I think “browse spaces” should be for browsing public forums or something like that. Only then do you see the space you have been invited to..Version: 1.0.178
✓ Could be betterThe app doesn’t allow you to open group chats on iPhone 6.Version: 1.0.240
✓ Chat is a cool idea but has many downfallsSome of the biggest things I don’t like about chat is that the rooms and chats are separated making it really hard to switch back and forth, and I don’t like the wording and text being on one side Constantly confusing me on who is texting. Also to video call you have to use google meet unlike the regular built in video call option on hangouts because no one actually knows if you are getting a call because it is a meeting link and not a call. Otherwise it isn’t the worst but those thing make me not want to use it. If any of this could be changed in the future I would really enjoy chat..Version: 1.0.118
✓ Google chatVery hard to distinguish text as they are very close to one another not the google hangout text will be in bubble like from left to right which makes reading easy. Also with group chat we can’t see you seen text. As I wondering whether this person has read text or not..Version: 1.0.120
✓ PLEASE ADD THE VOICE CALL OPTION TO GOOGLE CHAT THANKSI don’t see any similarities between this app and hangout and to make it worse you take out the voice call option and now forcing everyone to use Google chat☹️☹️ that’s so ridiculous… All of my colleagues at work who use hangout said they don’t like Google chat and it’s all because of these voice call, that would definitely be a plus and make Google chat less stressful than it already is.. I can’t see how many minutes my friends where online anymore, just active and away Mehn that’s not cool you guys really have to reconsider your option or think about putting hangout back on here for everyone and not force us to use something because you guys think it’s nicer without considering every other persons opinion and this is a market place but you treat your customers like we don’t have opinions.. please take your time to understand my review I really love Google apps and I want hangout app back or put the voice call option on Google chat please thank you guys.. we are family I hope my opinion matters, LOVE.Version: 1.0.162
✓ Voice notes!???Please google, this app could be amazing and save people so much money from having to use third-party buisiness messaging apps. This app by itself could be a reason for getting Google workspace Subscriptions. 1) Please add a voice note feature 2) Filters for saving messages. I.E. star a message like WhatsApp. But also add custom tags to save/catalogue a message to go back to. With all of Googles power, and all the information already stored in Google workspace. Having a truly integrated top level chat, without having to use a third-party could be incredible. Please make this happen 😂.Version: 1.0.220
✓ Latest update is awfulThe latest update makes it basically unusable on iOS. I expect Google has plenty of IT department customers to test it - anyone already using Google Apps who was desperate enough to save money would be willing to switch over since it's part of Google Apps. Chat was released broken and totally unfinished. That being said, Hangouts Chat has slowly gotten progressively better. And it's interesting to see the features they prioritize. They aren't trying to match feature parity with Teams or Slack, they're doing their own thing. But this latest app update is horrible. It's harder to see what's unread and what's not. And reading a message won't actually mark it as read most of the time. I've moved away from using my phone for chat and now just miss work messages. This update has made it much harder to communicate at work and much harder to work from home..Version: 1.0.76
✓ Accessibility car-crashFor anyone with even relatively minor vision or motor impairments, this app is unusable. There is no contrast between screen elements, all messages are left-justified and hard to distinguish between senders, the icons are minuscule and so close together it’s next to impossible to hit the one you want without accidentally tapping the wrong one. Appalling. How come Google, with its billions of dollars profit, are somehow unable to afford to consult an accessibility specialist, or even just spend half an hour talking to someone with impairments, I don’t know, but that would appear to be the case. They should be ashamed of themselves..Version: 1.0.166
✓ UpgradeI don’t see any similarities between this app and hangout and to make it worse you take out the voice call option and now forcing everyone to use Google chat☹️☹️ that’s so ridiculous… All of my colleagues at work who use hangout said they don’t like Google chat and it’s all because of these voice call, that would definitely be a plus and make Google chat less stressful than it already is.. I can’t see how many minutes my friends where online anymore, just active and away Mehn that’s not cool you guys really have to reconsider your option or think about putting hangout back on here for everyone and not force us to use something because you guys think it’s nicer without considering every other persons opinion and this is a market place but you treat your customers like we don’t have opinions.. please take your time to understand my review I really love Google apps and I want hangout app back or put the voice call option on Google chat please thank you guys.. we are family I hope my opinion matters, LOVE.Version: 1.0.162
✓ Not at all ready for full launchCan’t believe giant like google could not pull this such a basic app. Slack is way more powerful than this. Can’t even share the google drive link directly. Seriously?.Version: 1.0.4
✓ A backward step from hangoutsHangouts was far easier and simpler to use and navigate than Chat especially if wanting to move from text to call to video call and back again. It doesn’t colour identify the text messages by person, therefore harder looking back. Not as easy in sharing multiple photos..Version: 1.0.164
✓ DisappointedI love google chat, I connect with a lot of my friends on there and have been one of my go-to chatting apps in the past year. In the recent month or so though my friends and I have noticed an annoying bug. Our group chat keeps randomly deleting people. There are about 40 people on that group and multiple people are getting kicked out. We tried refreshing, making MULTIPLE new groups and even using different accounts but it’s still not working. I absolutely love this app but PLEASE fix this bug. Thank you!.Version: 1.0.236
✓ Hamgouts was betterNew update recently means I don’t get notification previews of the message?? Or even who it’s from! Do not update Also I still want the OPTION to switch to the old hangouts notification bell/noise. We were promised access to our old chats (older than a year) … but still I struggle with finding many old chats/ just make search by date function. Ideally I want to download chat from one person from 2014. All 8years worth..Version: 1.0.216
✓ Wants me to update?I just downloaded the Google Chat app, because the hangouts on my browser wouldn’t let me click on photos my friends were sending me. So I got this app, but it won’t let me see any photos, instead it just says to update the app, but it doesn’t show me how to. My IPad is only two years old, so it’s fairly new..Version: 1.0.216
✓ Worst thing ever. Please bring back HangoutThe most horrible app ever. It’s not at all usable anymore. So many useful features are gone or missing. Conversation is so confusing - half of the time I don’t even see or understand who I am typing to. Why do I need to see my name everywhere I don’t get it. so noisy. Last active at time feature gone, so useless for personal needs. it’s complete nonsense. it’s the worst thing you could have done. I can’t believe it. it’s driving me mad and upset for weeks. how can you just force people to use such a stupid app is beyond me.Version: 1.0.154
✓ Disappointing transition from HangoutsI know my personal 2 cents won’t matter much to Google, and will honestly seem silly to most; but… Where are the stickers??! That one bit of personalization made Hangouts so comfortable and warm for emotional expression in personal conversations. Yes, of course there are universal emojis and Apple memojis… but the stickers (especially the bunny and cat) are just perfect and ADORABLE. Why would you take those away? It seems like it would be such a simple feature to carry over. For this reason alone, I will hang on to Hangouts until its dying breath. Conversations just aren’t the same without them. For what it’s worth the discussion UI itself isn’t all that personable, either. Chat was definitely intended for a more business, streamlined discussion. Hangouts’ casual comfiness of the alternating bubbles per sender/recipient will certainly be missed..Version: 1.0.114
✓ Typing lags during long chatsTyping lags during long chats Must quit and restart to restore speed There is no "clear cache" in iOS settings for chat. The lag gets worse and worse in long chats..Version: 1.0.186
✓ What was wrong with Hangouts??This just about does the job.. but I don’t like group chats being separate with no option to bring into one list (like hangouts shows it). And now the calling options are gone & you go into Gmail (even though that’s an email client.. makes no sense to me)..Version: 1.0.108
✓ QuestionBring back hangout.Version: 1.0.239
✓ There’s a glitch need fixingIt could be that my iPad mini 4 is really old and can’t handle anything, but there’s a glitch that makes it so that the other person that i’m talking to messages won’t load for me until I send a message. It happens sometimes and it’s fixed when i refresh the app but it is an inconvenience, Also the google auto suggestions are insane and i love them please never change them..Version: 1.0.91
✓ Useless app !!I’ve been forever trying to get this app to work. I’ve contacted google but they are useless like this terrible app !!! Not recommended !! I use google suite which I pay for but can’t get any help from google at all !!! They simply don’t care as they only worry making boatload of money !!! 👎.Version: 1.0.101
✓ 4 stars?I don’t know why this app got 4 stars. Very basic app that is worse than my own chat app I built for fun.Version: 1.0.87
✓ I don’t really like itHello, I wasn’t too happy to see that I would be having to switch apps but I had no other choice. My friend and I used google hangouts as one of our only ways to communicate with each other due to certain circumstances she’s in. When I switched to google chat I thought it was very confusing. The messages are all on the same side. The feature I hate the most is the fact it won’t let me call anybody..? For some reason the option to call someone is disabled and I have no idea how to fix it, I think its very inconvenient. Im a mobile user so I have no idea if it’s different on computer but I do not have access to a computer and I feel that is not fair to have certain limitations on mobile. I also find it annoying that the messages they send are also linked to my gmail. So when they send a message, I also get a notification that pops up every time from my gmail inbox, I think there should be a feature that allows you to disconnect the notifications from your inbox. (or connect whenever you choose)..Version: 1.0.162
✓ Trash.This app is trash. I can’t text to any of my groups. I can’t sign into the old one. I can only see a few of the people I talk to. I hate it..Version: 1.0.83
✓ More featuresIntegration with Google calendar Ability to Reply a specific message during the conversation. Ability to Forward a message to other participants..Version: 1.0.208
✓ Basic, clunky and has awful in-app browserThe app doesn't support opening links in real Safari. What the app calls "Safari" is an in-app browser that keeps forgetting logins. This leads to an absurd situation where I can't use Google Chat to open a Google Doc, because their own pseudo browser can't remember my Google login. You'd think the company would at least test their app with their own websites. There's no way to share links to threads, so the whole app is a silo where information gets forgotten. There's very little control over notifications, so the app is a constant source of both annoying nags and missed messages..Version: 1.0.85
✓ Is this a chat room or a dating siteThe Casual Dating Badge is a safety assurance in which both parties who are supposed to meet are verified for a safe meetup. Before, you could chat or meet up with one of the members or the hottest models on the site. Kindly complete your I will be the administrator that will your process your Casual Dating Badge. Our member on the site named Taylor Gomez forwards your email and asks if you are a Genuine or Trusted member on the site reason why I sent a message Thank you Taylor Gomes Administration.Version: 1.0.216
✓ Missing feature parity with desktop / old hangouts1. Ability to share from iOS share function. 2. Ability to attach files from Google Drive 3. Ability to attach files at all. That is all for now..Version: 1.0.41
✓ Input lag on keyboardThere is a delay when typing. No other app on iOS has this problem except this one. The app can’t keep up with the speed of my typing..Version: 1.0.214
✓ ….To me… It works for what it was made for… But every update seems to just make it look stupider and stupider… there should be an option to just not update the look…. It was fine the way it was 😭.Version: 1.0.240
✓ UghI liked hangouts much better this app it’s just wierd in general can you please put hangouts back.Version: 1.0.148
✓ I can’t stand itI can’t stand how both participants of a conversation are on the left side, not on alternate sides and colored in different colors so they can be differentiated like in Hangouts and other traditional messaging apps. I can’t stand that the status is only “active” or “away”. In Hangouts you were able to tell if a participant was active in the last 15 minutes or 2 days or a week for example or you could turn the status off. You could also see if your messages were read. Also every time I leave a chat and close the app, when I re-launch the app my most active conversation has disappeared and I have to re-add the person I was chatting with. This is so annoying!! And I can’t stand that I’m being forced to use this crap app. I’m seriously thinking of deleting this app its that irksome. Plus, I’m looking through other reviews and I’ve seen as far back as a year ago, the same concerns being brought up by users and obviously they haven’t been addressed which means Google chat developers are not taking these concerns into consideration to make updates so that’s a hard no for me. I’ll be looking into other ways to communicate with family and friends..Version: 1.0.166
✓ Lifelong Google Chatter is fed up - Backwards moveI’ve been using Google Messaging apps for most of my entire life, much to the defiance (and laughter) of my friend groups - Gchat & Hangouts were good tools, I chose them over more popular ones like WhatsApp & FB messenger. This new “Google Chat” is a slap & spit (simultaneously) to the face of those - Google has gone BACKWARDS with this new useless iteration of its messaging app. The interface is more complicated, I can’t tell if my message has been clearly read or if I even sent it (all msgs are on the same side), pictures & videos take much longer to send, and I do NOT need a section for “Files & Tasks” - who asked for this app? Absolutely nobody… For the first time I will be not using this Google app - bring back Hangouts or significantly change this, look at all the negative recent 1-star reviews 🚮.Version: 1.0.162
✓ The least user friendly invention since the square wheel1. It separates one-on-one conversations and group chat rooms into two different sections, so you’re constantly switching back and forth to check on everything. 2. All wording is on one side of the screen, unlike a normal texting chat design (like discord) — while some might be used to this it can get seriously confusing, and there’s no way to personalize it to make it easier to read. Not only that, all wording is formatted in rows, not in text bubbles. This can make comments and messages blur together and get confusing if you aren’t used to that kind of messaging. In summary, hangouts is far more manageable and user friendly, and personally I think that chats should have merged with hangouts so that we could get the best of both worlds, instead if all of us being shoved into this circus of a site. Honestly, the only good thing I could find about chats that was nice was the dark mode (something google hangouts doesn’t have.) This is a big switch for a lot of hangouts users, and I wish that they would make it more manageable so that we could personalize it better. I’m sure in time I’ll get used to it, but I do think that this transition could have panned out better..Version: 1.0.108
✓ Only giving a 1 bc I can’t give a 0I deeply miss Google hangouts. The video quality was great, always adjusted to strength of wifi & prioritized everything working over everything being the highest quality which made it the best for talking to friends and family across the world. The UI on mobile was super easy to use for me and my whole family which includes a lot of older folks. I used to be able to make international calls on it for free of pretty cheap when the app was new which now I’m pretty sure you can’t do at all now. It was superior to any other video call platform I ever used and the stickers and ability to mess around on each other’s portraits were how I bonded over a distance. Now that’s gone and a new thing I have to look for. Google meet already exists for companies, I don’t understand why chat also has to be directed towards those types of people and has to take over hangouts..Version: 1.0.166
✓ Not happyIt’s very disappointing to know that a person should invite you to chat on this forum and then completely ignore you,.Version: 1.0.150
✓ Not happyI used chat for one year or so and I am happy about the newish features. Not happy today about the discrepancy between the standalone app and the access to the chat from my email. The standalone app is asking to update it to see my own messages but there’s no way to do so: deleted and reinstalled now for the 4th time. I give up. I am obliged to use it but not happy to do so.Version: 1.0.214
✓ This has been most people challenge on hereGoogle chat here, seems a bit complicated as compared to that of hangouts, I said this because, there’s not difference in the chat when you’re chatting with a friend or a family member… unlike hangouts, senders text is always at right and receivers text is always at left, that alone make it simple for you to understand your conversation easier, but here’s the case, google chat normally has the two so close to each other and also on one part of the chat surface. Another view to your app so far, I don’t know if others might’ve also realized that as well. The features “block and report” , that should be two things because they’re of different meanings, so it shouldn’t play a single role when you tap on it. For example, I want to block someone for a while, not permanently, but immediately I tap on that feature “block and report”, the person’s gmail is been taken out of google and can’t be found again to replace. Unlike messenger or any other with similar features , you can block someone and unblock to chat with that same person and can also report that person if you find that person ain’t the person you wanted or if that person is trying to scam you…. You guys really need to work on that, either than that, recommend your app as the best app ever..Version: 1.0.154
✓ GlitchySuper glitchy. Can’t use gifs in chats anymore and the badge always shows a ‘1’ even when I’ve read all my messages..Version: 1.0.84
✓ Dreadful and inconvenientIt has to be the least legible and most clunky messaging app in existence. Why would you forcibly separate singles and group chats into separate tabs? Why remove rather than add all the customisation options? Why force the workspace style on everyone rather than give users the choice? Even adding images to the conversation is now inconvenient, not to mention the unwieldy emoticons with descriptions and links previews. It’s the first time I’ve seen an app like that being made so much less user friendly, less streamlined and less, well, frictionless..Version: 1.0.168
✓ PictureI can’t see images which have been updated on the chat together, so I have to scroll all the way up till find the image… it would be nice that you can see all images in once like what’s up.Version: 1.0.142
✓ ◉_◉So I have an old iOS version and when Google chat said that I needed to get the latest iOS version to use chat, I kinda expected that. But then I found out that I still get notifications for the spaces that chat blocked! Also it didn't block my chats, and it blocked all my spaces one by one. So clearly they could show my spaces, even when they blocked my spaces. Also, sometimes it says "You have a new message" in a notification in the old google hangouts tone, not sure what that could be. I know that they fixed most or all of this. The app is very good exepct for these reasons. But who would use Google Chat anyways when you could use iMessage or even Whatsapp?.Version: 1.0.224
✓ Hello Google chatHow are you doing all and i hope you’re fine and I want to inform you that the google chat app has a problem you need to fix up for now because for me am a crypto currency’s guy and I used google chat for my business app with my friends and families and other stuff members as well the problem is that if you create a google account now and you’re access to use google chat within some few days they will restricted 🚫 your account without doing any bad things and that’s what makes mad because of my crypto business doing and I’ll lost all my bitcoin and some other stuff I needed and please google and I want to tell you this because it’s not good for me and I don’t feel comfortable with it so please try to change it for us so that you can make Google chat become better or best App to use for chatting and other stuff or maybe you bring a new law that if you’re doing bad things on google chat they can give warning ⚠️ on it but if you didn’t stop it then you can suspend the account just like weeks and then give the person come back for his google chat and i hope you to read my message I did here thank you and have a good day 😃.Version: 1.0.252
✓ Work on the service restrictionThe rate of chat service restrictions is too high, I see many people complain about how they can’t use the app because they get restricted for no good reason. People would rather chose alternative messaging apps over this because you restrict the chat app for no reason.Version: 1.0.230
✓ HangoutsWE NEED HANGOUTS. Hangouts is way more user friendly.Version: 1.0.250
✓ Need More Work: Clunky AppThe app is clunky when trying to send pics. There is a see delayed repsonse time from when you upload a picture. The send button starts to spin like it is thinking if it should upload your pic. When the send button is available after the spinning. Then you're able to send the pic. After 3-4 minutes, that's when you find out if your picture has sent or not. It doesn't show you trying to send the pic as a preview in the chat thread like it would for hangouts to let you know that is trying to send but can't for unforseen reasons. Instead, the person on the other end of the chat asks if you ever going to send the pic. When looking on my end, after 7 minutes has passed, then I receive a small message asking if I want to resend or delete. This need to be fixed. It's frustrating and my friends and family are experiencing the same issues..Version: 1.0.110
✓ Getting worse by every updateAnd it is now even more broken. Instead of showing the message itself, it is showing "You have a new message" in the notifications, and in apple watch. Why would one remove such a feature??? 🙄 Seriously. This tendency must be reverted!.Version: 1.0.244
✓ No connectionHangouts used to be simple click on the phone 📞 image and it would ring who I was calling. Now it’s like playing tag your it and mostly you don’t actually reach the person or it won’t be answered because no matter how hard you try the connection fails. So much so now I’m looking for yet another app that just might work more than it fails.Version: 1.0.124
✓ No Access. Cannot use thisI use Hangouts. A message came up today saying it will end soon and a link. I use the link and goes to help page with no information about this topic. Nearest I could get was about Google CHAT. I downloaded it and then am told I don’t have access to it with my account. Seems you need a corporate account. USELESS APP. DO NOT DOWNLOAD !!!.Version: 1.0.87
✓ Liked Hangouts BetterThe function of the app is fine, but I found the chat layout of Hangouts to be much better than what this currently has. (At least make it match the way chats currently appear on desktop.) There’s no immediate obvious visual differentiation between messages you send and messages you receive, which I find annoying and visually clunky. Other messaging apps like iMessage and Telegram distinguish your sent messages by putting them on the right of the screen and tinting them a different color. This app doesn’t do that. It also separates each message you send by your name, which is mildly irritating if you’re sending a series of pictures. I would love to see an update of the app’s appearance to bring it up to speed with other messaging apps, including the legacy Hangouts app..Version: 1.0.164
✓ I don’t like itI don’t like it, it’s hard to find your group chats, i like google hangouts better. maybe change it back to google hangouts? me and my friend are having hard time. you kind of copied Discord with the bots and the : command. it’s like walmart Discord. and I also think the rooms are useless, at least make it google hangouts again? i can’t even use google hangouts on my school account anymore, i have to use google chat. please change it..Version: 1.0.91
✓ Great App!This app allowed me to talk to people all over the world. For business purposes and non-business purposes, this app was the perfect choice. I love how it always allows you to chat and there’s lots of choices, columns and it’s never crowded. It was amazing for just chatting with family and friends too! However, sometimes it did have some bugs. Sometimes the app wouldn't work and sometimes it didn’t do anything. Overall, this was an awesome app for communicating to people all over the world..Version: 1.0.140
✓ Hangouts much better, chat is horribleI have been using google hangouts for 2 years now. It was easy to navigate, add people, voice call and video call. But now they replaced it with google chat which is horrible. In google chat you can voice and video call anyone, and it’s really hard to add someone. Very bad app too complicated to use. Please add back hangouts I am very displeased. I can’t use hangouts anymore it’s forcing me to use google chat. If you want to make this better, make it less complicated to add people and navigate, and make it that you can call people. Hangouts will always be remembered but not google chat.Version: 1.0.162
✓ Not superGlitchy, limited features. Can’t even rename a chat room....Version: 1.0.28
✓ I Miss HangoutsTo start off, I got this app before because my friend didn’t have a phone number and it was great for texting and calling for the duration that it was available. I’m not saying the app is horrible, the features are amazing; threads, formatting, status, it’s amazing. It’s the app itself I’m not too happy with. First of all, in hangouts I could see all my groups and contacts in one place and I could name group chats which you can no longer do. Second of all, it doesn’t just let you switch to dark theme as the light theme is really a pain. And lastly, the app was so much easier to use before, there weren’t all these extra complications, hangouts was ideal.. this wasn’t..Version: 1.0.186
✓ Not happyWhy change something good? Google chat annoys me with the repetitions of my correspondent’s last text at the top of the page, when the text itself is clearly visible. I am not at all sure it is as private as Hangouts. I have had intrusive messages on more than one occasion. Chat has been given a try but it has not lived up to the hype. Anna K..Version: 1.0.174
✓ It’s fine, I guess?Admittedly, I’m aggravated about being pushed to switch from hangouts, and that’s going to affect my view of this app, but dear god why can’t I put group chats and DMs in the same tab? Switching back and forth is frustrating and confusing. It’s also hard to tell who’s said what, and implementing literally any system for that would make a huge difference. On a less important note, I’d like to be able to assign a photo to a group chat so the icon isn’t just a letter (if there is a way to do this, I couldn’t find it, and I Looked). On the plus side, having the docs and sheets we’ve shared in a tab for group chats is really cool (I’d love to be able to see photos, too, as well as have this option for DMs), it infinitely easier to search than hangouts was, and there is dark mode integration. Overall, it’s fine, I guess? It feels very similar to Microsoft Teams, which is to say not ideal for a casual messaging app but probably a good option for work..Version: 1.0.122
✓ Banned???Idk why the app banned me for no reason. I literally did nothing.Version: 1.0.158
✓ Can’t remove peopleThis app is great- if you want people that don’t want to be there screeching in your ear. There’s no way to remove let alone block people from a group. People don’t get a choice whether they’re in a group or not. Perhaps make it so they get invited..Version: 1.0.83
✓ Awful compared to hangoutsReally suffocating and crowded. There’s no separation of messages, no more chat boxes with a clear idea of who has sent the message. Each new message appears on the next line with no spacing, all on the same side of the screen, and in the same colour. And any conversation/hangout that’s been given a chat name weirdly appears in a separate section of the app, compared with those that haven’t, so you have to flick back and forth between sections. It’s painfully unfriendly to use.Version: 1.0.112
✓ An App the Borg Would LoveWow, you know Google 'Chat' is a particularly characterless and sterile environment, with no customizable elements at all, that I can see. Doesn’t even have 'your' text on one side and 'mine' on the other, just one long column of text scrolling down the left side. Clearly an app that wants you to think "I am a soulless tool designed for team collaboration. Individuality is not productive. Design elements do not benefit the Collective. Colors distract from the Process. Expression must be solely in the Service of the Hive. Return to your Work." This is not an app designed for chatting with friends and family. Those things have no value. They do not serve the Collective. Your personal data has been collected, and will be reported to Google Authorities with the content of this negative review. Your existence on the Internet will be terminated..Version: 1.0.116
✓ Slowly getting thereThis app is fine for basic chat. But it’s no where near where it needs to be to one up slack. Expected functionality is just taking too long to roll out. We now have extensibility support although it’s poorly implemented. We don’t have multitasking support on iPadOS (crucial for any messaging app) and the web client is lacking dark mode. Google recently updated the web client and I expect the mobile apps will follow suit shortly. It’s a UX nightmare. Please go back to the drawing board with this app. It’s getting worse not better..Version: 1.0.106
✓ Not good!!I find this app is nowhere near as good as other messaging apps 😤! My point is that if you want to delete one individual reply it’s not possible most other text apps allow you to do that! It would be grate if this is something that can be added 👍!.Version: 1.0.193
✓ Can’t you guys stop updating it getting worse and worse I am about to delete it.I can’t add my friends even I type in the their email it shows that no one is there. He told me that he downloaded it already. Miss the old one.😩😢.Version: 1.0.248
✓ Miss HangoutsWhy the heck is google taken down hangouts???? I love it so much and they replaced it with this piece of crap? It’s so glitchy and way worse then hangouts. GOOGLE BRING BACK HANGOUTS PLEASE! 🙏😭.Version: 1.0.77
✓ Bugs of trimming the textHi dev team, I hope you guys see the bugs on the app especially for mobile (iOS). They’re been here for a long time. The bugs are: 1. the text contents are not fully displayed as they should be. They’re trimmed comparing with what I saw on the notification center. 2. The text is cut in a half. For example, you can just see the upper part of the word..Version: 1.0.250
✓ Constantly Changing for the WorseGoogle Chat is lackluster compared to previous iterations of Google communication tools, and here's why: 1) Chat can only send ONE picture at a time and there is significant lag before your client updates to display that you've sent a picture, so multiple repeat pictures are common in threads because you don't know if it actually sent. 2) Video calls are seriously stupid. You send a "Google Meet" link into the thread, which other users have to click to join a separate call. This is absolutely senseless compared to the incredible ease we had with Hangouts. Members of my family have missed out on precious moments and announcements because of this. 3) No SMS integration. 4) gifs are hit or miss and some device clients only play the gif once. 5) Not P2P encrypted. Pretty sure Allo had all of this and more, and it worked beautifully, until it was deprecated in favor of trash like this. Why in the world do we keep going backwards!?! I don't know why Google feels the need to make their user base constantly change apps to keep up with basic communication functionality. From Hangouts to Allo to Hangouts to Duo to Hangouts to Chat. I'd just like a stable and secure P2P encrypted application to use where I can video chat, send pictures (yeah, that’s multiple pictures AT ONCE), and text..Version: 1.0.120
✓ Useless. It won’t let me use it.Downloads and installs fine afaics but when opened it says “You don’t have access to Google Chat”. ??? It goes on to say “Your organisation doesn’t have access to Google Chat yet. Check with your domain admin to find out more.” Now as I don’t have an organisation (it’s just me, myself and I) and I am sure I don’t have a domain admin (is it like a priest?) I am lost. Years of using Hangouts down the drain. Why trust Google again? “Try a different account”. I only have this account..Version: 1.0.91
✓ A big convolutedIt’s nice to be able to search in this app, as opposed to Hangouts, but that’s where the pros end for me so far. The concept of chats vs spaces seems unnecessary and is what convolutes the app. I tried to give a name to a group chat as a space, but realized it’s then completely separate from chat threads (takes the whole history and converts it to a “space”), it doesn’t show up in the chats page, and searching in chats does not find matches in spaces. I decided I wanted to revert the (long) conversation history back to a chat thread but apparently that is impossible. I’ve also found multiple chat threads that include the same people, and sharing to Chats from other apps is very buggy. It was a much better user experience in Hangouts, with the exception of the search feature..Version: 1.0.170
✓ It’s a no from me ❤️It’s not letting me make a chat room, nor does it let others add me to their chat rooms. It’s a walmart discord..Version: 1.082
✓ Why won’t message notification go away!?!The little red icon won’t go away! Please fix. I have no new messages either..Version: 1.0.84
✓ No ConnectionI hate this App now I can’t send messages because it keeps saying no internet connection and I have full bars! Ok I’ve updated the app I’ve restarted my phone NOTHING works! Please fix NOW!.Version: 1.0.142
✓ Worse than the old appGoogle have decided to release a new version of the app which makes the one functionality it replaces from the old one worse. Sending pictures is now a lottery based on signal. Before it used to give you a bar showing it uploading, now it just disappears and you have no idea when it will send. Sync is crazy you never know when messages have arrived. As a bonus you need the old version still for video calls. If you have both installed both send you alerts. Ridiculously rubbish bloated nonsense. I don’t get why they did this or what the new app adds..Version: 1.0.42
✓ Most disgusting and annoying app ever.Google chat is the most ridiculous app ever I’ve seen my entire life, since they took out Hangouts and replaced with google chat it’s been nothing but useless… They just lock you out if your account for absolute no reason, I can count how many accounts that they’ve restricted or blocked for absolute no reason. And when they ask you to make an appeal they respond back to you in the most pathetic way ever.. people I’ve introduced this app too complained about same thing, you just can’t keep blocking people out of their account. I’m writing this cause a new account I’ve been using just go locked out for no reason, and instead to make an appeal I chose to write a review concerning this app. This would be my last time I’ll ever use google chat and I’ll go on every other platform to warn them about it. You guys don’t even deserve a star rating cause you’ve got a poor service/ customer experience.Version: 1.0.222
✓ Can’t Leave Group MessagesYou can leave rooms but you can’t remove yourself from group messages. As soon as you’re added to one with a large number of participants you’ll never be free of unwanted messages. You can turn off the notifications, and hide the chat, but then as soon as one of the 1000+ (or more) trollers says something, it returns. That’s a deal breakers for me. No thanks Google. Fix your product..Version: 1.0.85
✓ Hangouts was betterThis app feels less streamlined and straightforward than hangouts. It always takes 2-3 taps to switch between messages or perform any action which used to feel smooth and immediate in the hangouts app. Multitasking between accounts, spaces, and messages is a chore. Hangouts was great. I was able to get my tech illiterate 76 year old mother to use hangouts for video calling and it worked great. After we were forced to switch to this app, she found video calling "rooms" concept incomprehensible. I got her on Facebook messenger instead, which is far more straightforward to use and it works much better for our simple use case. I'm not really sure whose needs the Google app is designed to fulfill but it seems like a step backwards in usability..Version: 1.0.162
✓ FeaturesVery bad features many have put a stop to this app you better improve it..Version: 1.0.240
✓ BrokenSometimes when I use google chat it sometimes glitches and says that I don’t have any spaces or people and I have to restart my whole entire iPad.Version: 1.0.158
✓ This sucksIt won’t let me text my friends this sucks.Version: 1.0.230
✓ MediocreCan’t even figure out how to make a call like in hangouts….Version: 1.0.134
✓ Major design oversightAs a fast growing start-up we switched from Slack to Google as Slacks pricing pushed us into Google’s hands. As CEO I get a lot of messages, and the inability to mark a conversation as unread is a major design oversight. It indicates that not enough R&D was done with different user personas, as if it was tested with C-Level or most likely any management layer this issue would have surfaced. Unless it is implemented we will soon be moving back to Slack and paying them instead of Google..Version: 1.0.22
✓ Good but.....This app is great to talk to your friends and family but then when it comes to talking in a space.... When I try to update it, it dosen’t let me download the older version it is very very annoying.Version: 1.0.216
✓ Bring back hangoutsHangouts was better i miss it bring it back.Version: 1.0.196
✓ Stupid appI’m not happy that you have closed down HANGOUTS and replaced it with this stupid App, GOOGLE CHAT….You said you can do more with it? What a load of rubbish. It’s garbage. Can’t send stickers only emojis, you can’t delete a message unless you delete the whole chat. I was just getting comfortable with Hangouts and you replaced it with thisStupid GOOGLE CHAT, I hate it, it’s for young people. Not for us oldies. C’mon Google, Get with the times and stop catering for the young at heart, think about us oldies who aren’t techno savvy. Kind regards RobGem12.Version: 1.0.162
✓ I want this hangouts feature pleaseI doubt that this will work but I’m giving it a try. Me and my friend group always have used hangouts and it was amazing and google chat is more like a productive “work chat” app. If there is anyway this message can be seen by one of the Devs who works on this it would be amazing but my friends and I really want the feature that hangouts has that shows who has read the messages. Whether it could be an option a space manager could toggle or just active all the time. It would be so useful to tell who has been active and reading the chats. Thank you (In a direct message I have noticed it does show you when the person has read a message and what the last message they read was but I’m talking about adding this feature to the Spaces/Group Chats. Maybe it could be added like a space manager could toggle the feature since I’m sure not everyone would like to have it active all the time but it would be awesome just like in hangouts).Version: 1.0.162
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