Anybody who’s been utilizing Google services for any size of time is properly conscious of the firm’s proclivity in direction of… let’s say “reorganizing” issues. Branding will get up to date, new providers are launched, merchandise cut up off, merchandise get mixed, and generally Google simply has to kill one off. A couple of years again, Google was in the center of one of these durations of reinvention for its communication apps, and that meant merging Meet with Duo.

In the finish, we misplaced Duo as we knew it, and noticed it absorbed into Meet. However at the same time as that occurred, Google let customers proceed to entry some of that previous performance, presenting it as “Legacy (Duo) calling.” If you happen to had been nonetheless a fan of doing issues the previous method, we’ve bought some unhealthy information for you, as Google now shares its intent to lastly reduce off all this legacy assist someday this coming September (by way of 9to5Google).

If you happen to haven’t actually been staying on high of the complete cut up between Duo and Meet (or simply understandably stopped caring after the transition again in 2022) right here’s a fast overview of the options that Google says legacy customers will likely be dropping as Meet drops its assist:

Which will sound such as you’re dropping quite a bit, however now we have to take into account that Meet’s been at the forefront of Google’s improvement efforts these previous few years, and consequently presents a contemporary, feature-rich name expertise that the overwhelming majority of customers are possible going to choose, anyway. That features niceties like cloud encryption and reside captions.

One surprising casualty could also be how video calls work on Google’s good shows like the Nest Hub Max. Google’s transition FAQ explains that Nest units solely assist legacy calls, so it looks like the Hub Max’s already restricted name assist could also be downgraded even additional — more likely to non-functional standing, by the sound of it.

Hopefully we’ll be listening to a bit extra about the trivia of this transition, together with precisely when in September we will count on to see it happen, over the time between at times.