Ahead of Google deprecating classic Hangouts later this year for enterprise customers, the two intended replacements need to achieve feature parity. The latest step sees Hangouts Meet add support for Safari on macOS.

Hangouts Meet is G Suite’s video conferencing solution, and its adoption has gone somewhat smoother than messaging counterpart Chat. There is less legacy cruft to port, and it just works. Invites are sent out as links, with Calendar and Gmail integration also available. Google touts not needing to set-up any plug-ins ahead of time given modern web technologies.

Chatty is a Mac desktop client for Google Hangouts, it's fully feature packed and lets you easily message your friends, free video calls, photo sharing and lets you easily schedule or join a Google Meet/ Hangouts meeting attached to an event created with Google Calendar. Apple Messages UI style for Hangouts. All-in-One design. Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat were rebranded to Google Meet and Google Chat in April 2020. We announced in 2019 that we would be migrating all classic Hangouts users to the new Meet and Chat products. In order to provide enterprise-grade online video conferencing to everyone, we announced a free version of Google Meet in May 2020. Google Hangouts is one of the most popular instant messaging apps on the market. Businesses and individuals use it for a variety of chat purposes, and it is available for Windows, Android, and iOS devices. Additionally, it’s available on any browser that’s compatible with Google Chrome extensions. For mobility, the program is available across different platforms namely Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS, and web browsers. Google Hangouts for Mac is compatible with Mac 10.13 and newer. You will find that Google Hangouts has a straightforward interface. The main page is a catalog of your most recent messages and video calls.

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Already available on Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, Hangouts Meet is now available for version 13 of Safari and later. Shipped with macOS Catalina last year, Apple’s latest browser is also on macOS 10.14.5 and 10.13.6.

Google notes how this “will create a simpler meeting experience for Mac users who prefer to use Safari as their default browser.” There is full feature parity, including screen sharing capabilities.

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Hangouts Meet Safari support is widely available today.

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