Google Trusted Contacts Officially Pulled From App Stores

Google has formally pulled the plug on its Trusted Contacts app. First launched in 2016, the app supplied customers a technique to share their machine exercise standing and placement with chosen contacts. It has now disappeared from each Google Play retailer and the Apple’s App Retailer. The tech large may also cease assist for the app beginning December 1 this yr. The transfer follows a collection of measures that Google has taken not too long ago to optimise its services and products. Trusted Contacts follows within the footsteps of Google’s two different location sharing apps — Google Latitude and Google+ Location Sharing — that had been scrapped earlier.

Trusted Contacts was first inducted solely to Play Retailer for Android customers. A yr and a few upgrades later, it was made available for iOS customers through the App Retailer. By then, it was built-in with Google Maps and supplied helpful options like permitting a trusted contact to be added through electronic mail handle. But it surely slowly misplaced its sheen.

For individuals who have the Trusted Contacts app put in nonetheless, Google will finish assist to it after December 1. The website has put up a discover that asserts the date. Google is prompting the customers to make use of location sharing characteristic, that now additionally consists of stay location — a performance of trusted contacts — on Google Maps as an alternative. Customers who want to obtain a listing of their trusted contacts even have until December 1 to do it from the web site.

In the same transfer, Google additionally plans to kill Hangouts. It recently announced that will probably be transitioning customers from Hangouts to Google Chat that’s now part of the re-branded Google Workspace (beforehand G Suite) someday subsequent yr. Hangout customers shall be prompted to make use of Meet (additionally part of Google Workspace) for video calls beginning November. The assist for Hangouts will formally ends subsequent yr.

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