With Google Hangouts app for Mac, you can meet your friends face to face without extra costs for traveling. Join group chats for up to 150 people and communicate with all your friends instantly. Turn your chatting into a more interactive and emotional experience by sharing photos, emojis, stickers, and animated GIFs right in conversations. Use Google Hangouts Meet to connect with your friends at different locations all over the globe. From instant chatting to group conversations and video calls, Hangouts Meet supports different forms of e-communication and features a more convenient user experience. Google Hangouts for Mac is a direct messaging and videoconferencing app that allows you to keep in touch with your friends at any time and from anywhere. You can try one of Mac alternatives: Zoom or Skype. Which style do you prefer? Let us know the comments below.Editor's note: Google Hangouts Meet is available only on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. If you don’t already have the Hangouts Chrome Appa - note: app, not extension - you can grab it from the Chrome Web Store for free. It works on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. If you already have the Hangouts Chrome App you should already have the update (open it and check, if not just be patient). To switch back to the chat bubbles mode simply repeat the steps listed above and click the ‘Enable transparent UI’ button. Scroll down and click the ‘Disable transparent UI’ button.Click the settings icon (three horizontal lines).

To turn on the Hangouts app new single window mode: On Windows, Linux and Chrome OS systems Hangouts will continue to default to the ‘floating’ version, but the new design is easily enabled Nothing is broken only Mac OS X uses the new single window layout by default. If you have the Hangouts app installed on Windows, Linux or Chrome OS and see floating heads do not panic.

Mac and Linux users could use the app but would see a solid background rather than transparent so crucial to the heads-up experience. While well received at the time, the ‘floating heads’ were only officially supported on Chrome OS and Windows only.

Google introduced the Hangouts Chrome App last October with a Facebook Messenger style transparent ‘floating chat heads’ design, pictured below. The right side displays the active conversation plus settings and options when selected. Split into two columns, the left panel plays hosts to the contacts list, message history and calls (plus a floating action button for creating a new chat). The new designed bears more than a passing resemblance to the official Hangouts app on Android tablets and iPads, using a single-windowed mode and split-column layout to keep chats and contacts together. Google has updated the desktop Hangouts Chrome app with a brand new look.

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